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most successful trip to Celebes and the adjoining islands. 

 He has brought large collections from Mount Masarang, near 

 Menado, and a fair lot of skins from the Islands of Sangir 

 and Tellaud. As regards Baram, he has nearly given up 

 collecting bird-skins in that district^ having quite exhausted 

 the novelties. 



New Edition of Shelley's 'Birds of Egypt .' — We are much 

 pleased to hear that Capt. Shelley has decided to prepare 

 a new edition of his ' Handbook of the Birds of Egypt/ and 

 we are sure that he will be glad of information on the sub- 

 ject from those who have lately visited that country. The 

 first edition was published in 1872, and is now out of print. 



Seebohm's Unfinished Works. — It has been arranged, we 

 are informed, that Seebohm's Monograph of the Thrushes, 

 which was left by the author incomplete at his decease, shall 

 be finished and edited by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe. The work, 

 which is a royal quarto, will contain coloured figures of all 

 the known species, about 150 in number. Dr. Sharpe, we 

 understand, has also just completed a work on the 'Eggs 

 of British Birds,' left unfinished by Mr. Seebohm. This 

 will shortly be published by Messrs. Pawson and Brailsford, 

 of Sheffield. 



Remains of the Great Auk in Ireland. — The May number 

 of the 'Irish Naturalist' (vol. v. p. 121) contains an article 

 by Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton which brings to our 

 notice a statement of Mr. W. J. Knowles, in his " Third 

 Report on the Prehistoric Remains from the Coast of Ire- 

 land" (Proc. R. I. A. (3) iii. pp. 650-663), that he had 

 obtained on the coast of Antrim bones which had been 

 identified by Mr, E. T. Newton with those of the Great Auk 

 {Alca impennis). These bones were found in the sandhills 

 of Whitepark Bay, Antrim, in conjunction with human 

 remains believed to be of the Neolithic Period. From the 



