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Movements of Ornithologists and Collectors. — Mr. A. 

 Trevor-Battye left Hull on May 28tli for Spitsbergen with 

 Sir Martin Conway's expedition, and during a somewhat 

 lengthened summer-stay there, he will, no doubt, make some 

 additions to its rather scanty avifauna, although we cannot 

 expect many new discoveries in these high northern latitudes. 



Mr. Perkins, the naturalist in the employ of the Committee 

 for the Exploration of the Sandwich Islands, is still busy in 

 that group, and has lately sent home a new collection of 

 some 260 skins of birds from Hawaii, Kauai, and Oahu. 

 There seem to be no novelties amongst them, but some of 

 them belong to species of which examples have not previously 

 been sent home by Mr. Perkins. 



Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton has been sent by the 

 Colonial Office to the North Pacific, along with Prof. D'Arcy 

 Thompson, to investigate the condition of the Fur-Seals, and 

 will doubtless pay some attention to the bird-life of those 

 regions also. 



Mr. D. G. Elliot is by this time far in the interior of Somali- 

 land, having left Aden for Berbera at the end of April. He 

 has two experienced collectors with him, and although his 

 first object is to get good specimens of the larger mammals, 

 we may be quite sure he will not forget the birds. 



Mr. R. M. Barrington, in conjunction with Prof. Haddon 

 and other Irish naturalists, is projecting a voyage to Rockall 

 this summer, in order to make as thorough an examination 

 as possible of that interesting little bit of stray land and its 

 feathered inhabitants. 



Mr. Borchgrevink, whose Antarctic voyage and experiences 

 in 1894 were described at the International Geographical 

 Congress in August last (see ' Nature,^ vol. 52, p. 375), will 

 leave England this autumn as the head of a scientific expe- 

 dition to the Antarctic Continent. These daring explorers 

 have arranged to join a whaling-ship which will land them 

 at Cape Adare in South Victoria-land (lat. 71° 25' S.), and 

 will return for them in December 1897. 



Mr. Charles Hose (writing from Baram, Sarawak, on the 

 8th of February last) says that he has just returned from a 



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