476 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



managed to bring a portion of his collections away with him 

 overland to Asuncion, which he reached on March 20th. He 

 arrived at Southampton on May 20th, and is now at home, 

 engaged in examining and arranging his specimens. 



The Penguinary at the Jar din d' Acclimatation , Paris. — No 

 ornithologist who goes to Paris should fail to visit the Pen- 

 guin-rookery, or, as it may be more correctly named, the 

 Penguinary., in the Jardin d^Acclimatation. Here is an en- 

 closure in a shady spot with from 20 to 30 examples of the 

 Black-footed Penguin of the Cape {Spheniscus demersus), in 

 which they seem to live and thrive, though provided only 

 with some small basins to wash in. They pair readily, and 

 are then devoted couples. Each pair occupies a wooden 

 dog-kennel, in which the female lays her two eggs. Of five 

 individuals bred in this enclosure last year only one was 

 lost. 



Neivs of Emin Pasha. — A long letter, addressed to Dr. 

 Hartlaub by Emin Pasha, is dated from one of the larger 

 islands on Victoria Nyanza on the 11th of November last. 

 Emin was then evidently, we regret to say, not in the best of 

 health, and complained much of failing eyesight. He was on 

 the point of leaving the Victoria Lake to travel southwards 

 towards the north end of Lake Tanganyika, and must be now 

 somewhere in that almost unknown district. Dr. Stuhlmann, 

 a young naturalist from Hamburg, was with him. His letter 

 contains much ornithological matter, and amongst other 

 things speaks of a curious three-toed Gralline bird met with 

 on the Victoria Nyanza, which Dr. Hartlaub thinks will 

 probably be new to science. 



The Pahanff Expedition. — From 'Nature^ (vol. xliv. p. 112) 

 we learn that the long-talked of expedition into the interior 

 of the Malay Peninsula, sent out by the Government of the 

 Straits Settlements, is now actually to come of£ {cf. Ibis, 

 1888, p. 379, and 1890, p. 131 ; also above, p. 471) . Messrs. 

 Ridley and Davison will proceed from Singapore to Pekan 



