Letters, Extracts, Notices, S^c. 481 



ilemarks upon the Breeding- of the Rufous Tiuainou {Rhynchotis ru/es- 



cens) in the Society's Menagerie. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 087. 

 On the Incubation of the Apteryx. P. Z. S. 18G8, p. 329. 

 Piemarks upon the Habits of the Plornbills {Biiceros). P. Z. S. 1809, 



p. 142. 

 Remarks upon the Habits and Oiange of Plumage of Ilumboklt's Penguiu. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 6. 

 Remarks upon the Habits of the Darter [Plotus anhimja). P. Z. S. 1881, 



p. 247. 

 Remarks upon the Moulting of the Great Bird of Paradise. P. Z. S. 



1887, p. ^92. 



Bartlett left behind him two sons^ both of whom inherit 

 their father's tastes and follow similar pursuits. Mr. Edward 

 Bartlett^ well known from his collecting-expeditions in South 

 America and elsewhere, has just returned to England, after 

 a lengthened service as Curator of Rajah Brooke's Museum 

 at Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo. Mr. Clarence Bartlett was 

 for twenty-four years Assistant- Superintendent of the Zoo- 

 logical Society's Gardens, and has now succeeded to his 

 father's post. 



We have also to announce, with much regret, the recent 

 death of another Member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union — Mr. Charles Bygrave Wharton. We hope to give 

 a notice of this gentleman in our next number. 



XXXVII. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, i^c. 



We have received the following letters, addressed " to the 

 Editors of 'The Ibis'":— 



Sirs, — A cruise in the Levant for six weeks does not 

 afford many opportunities for observing and noting orni- 

 thological facts, but the following notes may possibly interest 

 some students of migration. 



On the IGth of this month (March) we struck camp and 

 started at daybreak to ride down the little-known pass from 

 Bethel to Jericho. Just after sunrise, on the brow of the 

 ridge, which looks down 3600 feet into the Jordan Valley, 

 we observed a flock of White Storks circling and wheeling 



