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In August next I shall certainly do the latter ; but I fear the 

 former is beyond me^ our means of communication are so 

 bad. I have notices of two Ducks that, as yet, I have not 

 seen." 



Mr. Layard hopes, we are glad to add, to be able to pay 

 us a visit in England in the course of the summer of 1882. 



Proceedings of Travellers and Collectors. — Mr. E. W. White, 

 of Buenos Ayres, who has recently returned from a trip 

 through the upper provinces of the Argentine Republic, is 

 now preparing an excursion into Corrientes and the territory 

 of Misiones, and intends to pay special attention to the birds. 

 His agent in this country is Mr. E. Gerrard, Jun. 



The last letter received in Warsaw from Mr. Stolzmann is 

 dated from Yurimaguas, in Eastern Peru, on the 9th of 

 January last. Mr. Stolzmann was preparing to return direct 

 to Europe, with all his collections, which are said to be very 

 extensive and will doubtless contain many novelties. 



Dr. Finsch, on the IStli of January last, was still at Ma* 

 tupi, in New Britain. He had obtained a fine lot of birds 

 (nothing new up to that date), and was expecting to send off 

 sixty boxes of these and other objects by the bark " Goethe,^' 

 which would sail for Europe in about a month from that 

 date. 



Mr. Charles B. Cory, writing from Boston in April last, 

 tells us that he had just returned from a very interesting trip 

 to the mountains of Hayti and San Domingo. He had suc- 

 ceeded in procuring about 600 birdskins, amongst which were 

 examples o£ at least four new species, one apparently be- 

 longing to a new genus. 



Mr. Gould's Works and Collections. — The entire stock of the 

 late Mr. Gould's illustrated ornithological works, as also of 

 the ' Mammals of Australia,^ with all the copyright and other 

 interests involved in them, has been purchased from the 

 executors by Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. of Piccadilly, 



