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a few eggs were deposited by the 24th May. We expect that 

 Mr. Chapman will shortly give us further details of his 

 personal experiences upon a ground which, although visited 

 hy several ornithologists, is by no means worked out. — H. S. 



Mr. Seebohm's Excursion to the Dobrutscha. — Mr, See- 

 bohm has just returned from a bird's-nesting trip to the 

 lower Danube and the Dobrutscha. The season ivas very 

 late and the river very high ; but on the whole he was suc- 

 cessful. In one of the large breeding-colonies he found 

 nests of Common Heron [Ardea cinerea), Little Egret {A. 

 (jarzetta), Squacco Heron (^. r«//oic?es), Night-Heron {Nyc- 

 ticorax griscus), and Pygmy Cormorant [Phalacrocorax 

 pygmaus), many trees containing upwards of twenty nests. 

 Colonies of Caspian Terns {Sterna caspia) and of Slender- 

 billed Gull {Larus gelastes) were almost destroyed by the 

 Russian fishermen. He was more fortunate with eggs of 

 Black-winged Stilt {Himantopus candklus), of Avocet {Re- 

 curvirostra avocetta), of Great Bustard [Otis tarda), and 

 of Little Bustard (0. tetrax). He met with small parties of 

 the E/Ose-coloured Pastor [Pastor roseus) and examined their 

 nests of last year. He also met with the Demoiselle Crane 

 [Grus virgo), the Siberian Pied Chat [Saxicola morio), the 

 Steppe-Eagle {Aquila nipalensis) , %cq. &c. 



