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all ornithologists interested in the distribution of birds in 

 Russia. Professor Bogdanow^s important contributions to 

 ornithological literature are very little known in this country, 

 in consequence of their being written in the Russian lan- 

 guage ; but MS. translations of his three most important 

 worksj '^The Mammals and Birds of the Black-earth Regions 

 o£ the Volga' (published in Kazan in 1871), 'The Birds of 

 the Caucasus' (Kazan, 1879), and ^A Monograph of the 

 Russian Shrikes' (St. Petersburg, 1881) are in Mr. Seebohm's 

 library, and have been consulted and appreciated by many 

 ornithologists. In 1884 the first part of his ' Conspectus 

 Avium Imperii Rossici' was published at St. Petersburg, and 

 is accessible in the library of the Zoological Society. It is 

 deeply to be regretted that the talented author has not lived 

 to complete this important work. 



News of Emin Pasha. — A letter lately received by Prof. 

 Flower from Emin Pasha is dated " Tunguru Island, Lake 

 Albert, Oct, 31st, 1887," and announces the despatch of two 

 boxes of bird-skins and other objects to the British Museum. 

 The Albert Lake, he observes, has never been previously 

 visited by a naturalist, and he hopes to discover many novel- 

 ties. He had just shot a specimen of what was apparently 

 Larus fuscus, the most southern locality yet known to him 

 for this bird. 



