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Mr. J. E. S. Moore has returned home from his expedition 

 to Lake Tanganyika, and is now busily engaged in working 

 out the results. Among his collections is a small series of 

 birds, but his attention was principally directed to the 

 lacustrine fauna. Mr. Moore gave an account of his general 

 zoological results at the Meeting of the Zoological Society 

 on the 4th of May last, and exhibited a very interesting 

 series of his specimens at the Royal Society^s Soiree on 

 May 19th. 



Mr. Alexander Whyte.. F.Z.S., has come home from 

 Nyasaland to enjoy a well-earned rest upon retiring from 

 the service of the British Central-African Administration. 

 His extensive collections from the Nyika plateau, in North 

 Nyasa, are being worked out at the British Museum, and we 

 hope soon to be able to give our readers an account of the 

 birds, which Capt. Shelley is now engaged upon. Another 

 collection, obtained by Mr. Whyte from the mountain-district 

 north of Zomba, has also recently arrived, and further col- 

 lections are on their way home. 



Mr. and Mrs. Lort Phillips carried out another very suc- 

 cessful expedition to the hills of Somaliland last winter, and 

 brought back a fine series of birds, of which we hope to be able 

 to give an account in a future issue. As will be seen by our 

 report of the proceedings of the B.O.C. (above, p. 448), 

 examples of several new species were obtained. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Lort Phillips have now left England again for their 

 summer-quarters in Norway. 



Mv. Joseph J. S. Whitaker returned to Palermo at the 

 beginning of May from a short, but not unsuccessful, orni- 

 thological raid into Tunisia, only regretting that he could 

 not remain longer in the country. Among the nests taken 

 were those of Saxicola moesta, S. leucura, Emberiza Sahara, 

 Erythrospiza githaginea, and Otis houbara. Mr. Whitaker 

 took three nests of Saxicola moesta, with eggs in them, with 

 his own hands. He discovered a place where Chersophilus 

 chqwnti is comparatively abundant, and hopes to obtain its 

 eggs on another occasion. 



Mr. Robert L. Perkins has now finally returned to England 

 from the Sandwich Islands, whore, as our readers know, he 



