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species {Dryoscopus turafi), new to the collection, and the 

 type of a new species of Weaver-bird {Ortygospiza ansorgei), 

 obtained by Dr. W. J. Ansorge : 29 birds from Nigeria, 

 presented by Mr. P. A. Talbot : a Darwin's Rhea {Rhea 

 darw'mi) from the Woburn Aviaries, presented by His Grace 

 the Bake of Bedford, K.G. : 150 birds collected in Gnatemala 

 by Mr. G. C. Shortridge, j^rese7ited by the Zoological Society 

 of London : 95 birds collected on the Rio Paraguay, 

 jyresented by Mr. Geoffrey W. Tudor : 647 birds, 602 eggs, 

 and 40 nests from Caeiios Aires, collected by Mr. C. H. 

 B. Grant, presented by Mr. Ernest Gibson : 161 birds from 

 the Owen-Stanley Mountains, New Guinea, presented by 

 Mr. E. J. Brook : 402 birds and 29 eggs from Aru, Kei, 

 Ceram, and Amboina, presented by tJie British Ornitholo- 

 gists^ Union : 153 birds from Australia, presented by 

 Miss Audrey Chirnside. 



The American Pheasant-Expedition. — In our last number 

 (above, p. 578) we gave some particulars concerning the 

 expedition in search of Pheasants of all sorts and descrip- 

 tions, led ])y Mr. C. W. Beebe, Curator of Birds in the 

 Zoological Park, which left New Yoi'k in December 1909. 

 The last number of the Zoological Society's Bulletin (July, 

 1911) announces the return of the party to New York in 

 May last " after completing the circle of the globe/' and 

 gives an interesting account of the journey, well illustrated, 

 by photographs. 



The expedition proceeded first to Ceylon, where six weeks 

 were spent in studying Pavo, Gallus, and Galloperdix, and 

 thence to Calcutta, where they Avere cordially received by 

 Dr. Annandale, and examined the splendid collection of 

 Phasiauidae in the Indian Museum. Thence it was not a far 

 jovarney to Darjeeling, where they were lodged in a Dak 

 Bungalow on the Nepal-Sikkim frontier, and met with 

 Gennaus, Tragopan, Lophopliorus and other well-kuowu 

 forms of the Eastern Himalayas. Returning to Calcutta, 

 the party proceeded to the Western Himalayas, visiting 

 Gurwhal and Cashmere, and on their way back to Calcutta 



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