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On a Collection of Birds from Southern Abyssinia presented to the 

 British Museum by Mr. W. N. McMillan. Part I. Passeres. By W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant. — This report is based upon a collection of upwards of 3000 

 skins collected by P. C. Zaphiro employed by Mr. McMillan to supplement 

 the collection obtained on his expedition to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 

 1903-1904. The annotated Ust includes 229 species, of which Salpornis 

 salvadorii abyssinica, Limonu on the Urguessa River, is described as new. 

 Several other novelties from other collections are also described in this 

 paper incidentally: Mirafra pcecilosterna jacksoni, Kikuj'u; Bradyornis 

 infuscatus seimundi, DeeKontein Cape Colony; and B. i. ansorgii Catam- 

 bella and Huxe. The last two occur in a monograph of the genus 

 Bradyornis which is appended. The author's practice of citing two or 

 more types is quite unnecessary and is the source of possible comphcations 

 in the future. Sooner or later some one else must select one of them as 

 the type. 



Obituary. Philip Lutley Sclater. By A. H. Evans. — With Bibliog- 

 raphy of 582 titles. 



Brief Obituaries of Thomas Ajtcs and Dr. J. W. B. Gunning. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.i Vol. XXXII. Sep- 

 tember, 1913. — This volume of 336 pages comprises the club's annual rec- 

 ord of bird migration for the spring of 1912 and autumn of 1911. It follows 

 the same general plan as the previous reports and contains a vast amount 

 of data. It is possible, from the records received, to group the migrants into 

 several classes according to the points at which they reach England, the 

 Ring-Ouzel, Grasshopper Warbler, Pied Flycatcher and Land-Rail arriving 

 solely on the western half of the south coast, while the Nightingale, Tree- 

 Pipit, Red-backed Shrike, Wryneck and Turtle Dove come in on the south- 

 east coast, etc. The most striking feature of the winter of 1911-12 was the 

 unusual visitation of Little Auks. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CXC. October 

 24, 1913.— This number is devoted to a Guide to Selborne and a Synopsis 

 of the Life of Gilbert White, by W. H. Mullens — prepared for the visit 

 of the Club to Selborne which was given up on account of the death of Dr. 

 Sclater. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CXCI. Octo- 

 ber 24, 1913. 



Obituary of Philip Lutley Sclater. 



W. R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited specimens of the rare Spitsbergen Ptarmi- 

 gan, Lagopus hyperboreus. 



Carduelis carduelis bermudiana was described as new by J. N. Kennedy, 

 but the propriety of naming birds introduced by man and which had 

 changed color sUghtly as has been the case with the European Goldfinch 

 in Bermuda, was questioned by members. 



» Edited by W. R. OgUvie Grant. PubUshed by Witherby & Co.. 326 High 

 Holbom, London. 



