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and liooted around tlie temple, till at last, after much patience, 

 I succeeded in getting his form sharply defined against the 

 disk of the full moon, and shot him ; after that I could hear 

 another further down the valley, but it never came near the 

 temple. The bed of the stream was haunted by Violet 

 Whistling Thrushes [Myiophoneus cceruleus) , Dippers [Cinclus 

 pa/Iosi), Fork-tails {Henicnrus sinensis and Microcincla 

 scouleri), and Dusky Redstarts {Ruticilla fuliginosa) , and on 

 the 23rd a number of Grey Wagtails [M. melanope) arrived. 

 Around the temple the w^oods were full of life ; two species of 

 Cettia (C. canturie7is and C.fortipes) were calling incessantly ; 

 there were flocks of Siskins [Chrysomitris S/wm?/^), Golden-wing 

 Finches {Chloris ^iw/cc), Wedge- tailed Nutmeg-birds [Munia 

 acuticauda), and Red-headed Suthoras (Suthora suffusa). 

 Phylloscopus proregulus, one of the smallest of the Willow 

 Warblers, had made its appearance. Among resident species, 

 Blue Pies [Urocissa sinensis). Yellow-vented Bulbuls [Pycno- 

 notus xant/iorous), Green Mountain Bulbuls {Spizixus semi- 

 torques) , Red-headed Tits [Acredula concinna), Hwameis {T7'o- 

 chaJopterum canorum), and an occasional Scimitar-bill [Ponia- 

 torhinus styctni) were noted ; other species there were which 

 are found everywhere, too numerous to name.^^ 



A new Tunisian Lark. — In a recently issued number of 

 the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie,' Dr. A. Koenig, in an article 

 upon the " Avifauna of Tunis," describes and figures a new 

 species of Lark under the name Aloeinon margaritm (op. cit. 

 p. 228, tab. ii), apparently allied to Certhilauda duponti. A 

 pair of this species were obtained by the describer in March 

 1887, in the neighbourhood of Gabes, in Southern Tunis, 



Obituary. Mr. R. S. Wray. — With great regret we have 

 to record the death, at the early age of twenty-four, of 

 a Biologist of great promise, Mr. Richard Spalding 

 Wray, B.Sc, Lond. The son of the Rev. William Wray, 

 a Nonconforming minister in Yorkshire, he early developed 

 a strong taste for natural-history pursuits, which led him 

 to become a student at the Normal School of Science at 



