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A more recent letter from Mr. Forbes (dated Egga, Sep- 

 tember 17th) announces that he had determined to leave 

 about the end of September for an excursion up to Sokoto, 

 which would take about six weeks, after which he would pro- 

 bably return straight to England. In the meanwhile Mr. 

 Forbes had selected Ischunga, on a creek a little above Egga, 

 as a good collecting-station for birds and fishes, and intended 

 to pass the intervening time there. " GI areola cinerea is 

 very common on the sandbanks about Egga, and is met with 

 in large flocks. Pluvianus cegyptius and a species of Meto- 

 pidius are likewise plentiful.'''' 



Proceedings of Foreign Collectors. — Herr Stolzmann (of 

 Warsaw) having convinced himself that nothing can be done 

 in Peru in the present state of the country, has gone to Ecua- 

 dor, and is exploring the hot forests on the Pacific sea- 

 bord of that country. His present station is Chimbo, at an 

 altitude of 1100 feet, where he has obtained many interesting 

 birds. M. Taczanowski is expected very shortly on a visit to 

 this country for the purpose of svorkingout Herr Stolzmann's 

 collections, amongst which are examples of many species 

 believed to be new to science. 



Mr. Henry Whitely returned to London last September 

 with a very fine and large series of bird-skins from the Ro- 

 raima district of Guiana. Messrs. Salvin and Godman, who 

 have had the first selection, promise us an account of the 

 uoveltjes for our next issue. 



Mr. R. Parkinson writes to us from Apia, Samoa, that he 

 is about to'proceed to New Britain on a collecting-expedition. 

 Mr. Parkinson will also endeavour to visit New Hanover and 

 the north-east coast of New Guinea. His address is " Moko, 

 Duke-of-York Islands, c. o. the German Consulate, Sydney, 

 N. S. W.^' There is, no doubt, still a rich harvest to be 

 reaped in these islands by an energetic collector. 



The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution writes that 

 they are sending Mr. Nutting, an excellent field-naturalist, 

 to the eastern coast of Central America, to collect from Nica- 

 ragua up to Honduras. Dr. Stejneger, who went to Eehring 



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