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when proceeding to the relief of Maf eking. The South 

 African Museum thus lost two excellent correspondents, 

 who had largely contributed to its collections from the 

 Eastern Transvaal and Portuguese East Africa (cf. Ibis, 

 1900, pp. Ill, 283). 



" Their work was specially valuable, as every specimen col- 

 lected was very carefully and thoroughly labelled with all the 

 necessary details, and in addition with notes on the habits." 



Mr. TV. Eagle Clarke. — We are much pleased to hear that 

 Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, whose very successful experiences at 

 the Eddystone Lighthouse we have had the pleasure of 

 recording in this Journal, has obtained permission from the 

 authorities at Trinity House to pass a month during the 

 present season of migration on the lightship off the mouth 

 of the Thames at the Kentish Knock, which is about 

 21 miles from the nearest point of land. In this position 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke will have excellent opportunities of study- 

 ing the autumnal passages of migratory birds from east to 

 west across the German Ocean, concerning which accurate 

 information is much required. 



Twelfth Supplement to the Check-list of North-American 

 Birds. — 'The Auk ' for July contains a new Supplement to 

 the * Check-list of North- American Birds/ prepared by the 

 Committee of the A. O. U. The " Additions to the List 

 and accepted Changes in Nomenclature " are more than 

 120 in number. We have no wish to criticize these, but 

 may express a fear that such changes as the proposed 

 substitution of " Tinnunculus " for " & salon " will create 

 much confusion and that the revival of the (happily forgotten) 

 generic term Erolia will not be generally accepted. It cannot 

 be truly stated that Vieillot's Erolia variegata refers "un- 

 questionably" to the Curlew Sandpiper. Amongst the 

 " species and subspecies not adopted/' we see three of the 

 subspecies of Otoconjs recently proposed by Mr. Oberholser 

 (cf. supra, p. 128). There is a formidable list of names 

 " deferred for future consideration," so that the Committee 

 has by no means as yet concluded its labours. 



