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Red-footed Falcons, a pair of Ospreys (1870), and a single 

 example of the Kite. The Egyptian Goose and the Summer 

 Duck should be discarded as having no connexion with the 

 county, being probably escapes from ornamental waters. 



"The Rails and Plovers are well represented, as are Gulls, 

 Terns, Petrels, and Divers. The late Lord Lilford believed 

 that the White-winged Black Tern formerly bred near the 

 Avon, for the visitors on the spring migration are always 

 met with at one particular spot on the river. 



" For some time it has been known that Mr. Rart 

 wished to dispose of his collection as a whole. Last 

 November the suggestion was made that it should be 

 acquired by the County Borough of Bournemouth, where 

 it might be suitably housed, and constitute the nucleus 

 whence should develop a museum illustrating the biology of 

 Hants and Dorset. The immediate reply to that suggestion 

 was the offer of .€100 from a local resident towards a fund 

 for the purchase of the collection and the erection of a 

 suitable museum. Quite recently the matter has again come 

 to the front, and at a meeting, under the presidency of the 

 Mayor, the resolution was carried that it was desirable 

 in the interests of Bournemouth to purchase the Hart Col- 

 lection, and a committee has been appointed to give effect 

 to this expression of the popular will." — Standard. 



Obituary. — A much valued friend and correspondent has 

 been lost to us by the death of Dr. Gustav Radde, the 

 well-known Director of the Caucasian Museum at Tirlis, 

 and a veteran worker in Ornithology. Radde, the son of a 

 schoolmaster at Danzig, was born in 1831, and from earlv 

 youth showed his predilection for Natural History. In 1852 

 and the following years he was employed in the Crimea, 

 as assistant to the botanist Steven, in collecting plants 

 and making drawings of them. A memoir on the botany 

 of the Tauric Peninsula written by him was published 

 in the ( Bulletin ' of the Society of Naturalists of Moscow 

 in 1834. 



