406 Letters, Extracts, Notices, i^c. 



Menzbier (M. a.). Dr. N. A. Severtzow. Ornithologie du 



Turkestan. Livr. 1 (1888). 

 Meyer (A. B.). Abbildungen von Vogel-Skelettcn. Lief. X., 



XL (188(5). 

 Olphe-Galliard (Leon). Contributions a la Faune Orni- 



thologique de I'Europe Occidentale. Fasc. XXIV., 



XXV. (1888-89). 

 Felzeln (A. von) und Madakasz (J. v.). Monograpliie der 



Pipridse oder Manakin-Vogel. Lief. 1 (1837). 

 Russ (Karl). Die freradlandischen Stubenvogel. Band IV. 



Lief. 8 (1888). 

 Saunders (Howard). An illustrated Manual of British 



Birds. Part XV. (June, 1889). 

 Sharpe (R. B.) and V/yatt (C. W.). A Monograph of the 



Hirundinidce. Parts IX., X. (March, 1889). 

 SuNDMAN (Gosta). Finska Fogelagg. Lief. IX. (1888). 



Birds from the Riocour Collection. — The British Museum 

 has recently made a valuable acquisition in the shape of a 

 selection from the collection of birds of the late Comte de 

 Riocour, of Vitry la Ville, near Chalons, after whom Elanoides 

 riocouri was named by Vieillot (Gal. Ois. i. p. 4.2). About 

 150 mounted specimens have been obtained, amongst which 

 are 18 types of Vieillot's descriptions. Besides these there 

 is a single example of a very rare and now extinct Sturnoid 

 bn'd, Fregilupus varius, which was formerly found in Bourbon, 

 and of which Jules Verreaux used to boast that he had shot 

 one of the last remaining specimens. 



Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 1889. — The Annual General Meeting of the British Orni- 

 thologists^ L^nion was held at the rooms of the Zoological 

 Society, 3 Hanover Square, on Wednesday, the 8th May, at 

 6 P.M., Mr. P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting havicg been read and 

 confirmed, the Committee presented their Report, in which. 



