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  with 
  a 
  12-bore 
  it 
  slipped 
  away 
  and 
  escaped 
  in 
  the 
  thick 
  

   ' 
  monte.' 
  From 
  descriptions 
  by 
  Englishmen, 
  and 
  from 
  what 
  

   I 
  saw, 
  I 
  have 
  little 
  doubt 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  Crax 
  sclateri. 
  Perhaps 
  I 
  

   may 
  get 
  a 
  skin 
  of 
  it 
  from 
  a 
  man 
  whom 
  I 
  taught 
  to 
  skin 
  there. 
  

   I 
  have 
  obtained 
  specimens 
  of 
  about 
  100 
  species, 
  and 
  identified 
  a 
  

   good 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  birds 
  besides. 
  Vultures 
  have 
  been 
  

   abundant, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  seca 
  and 
  the 
  numbers 
  of 
  dead 
  

   cattle. 
  Cathartes 
  atratus 
  breeds 
  here, 
  and 
  C. 
  aura 
  has 
  been 
  

   a 
  fairly 
  numerous 
  visitor, 
  but 
  does 
  not 
  breed, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  

   know. 
  This 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  very 
  bad 
  season 
  for 
  a 
  naturalist. 
  

   The 
  fearful 
  drought, 
  which 
  has 
  brought 
  the 
  country 
  into 
  a 
  

   most 
  serious 
  condition, 
  is 
  such 
  that 
  I 
  can 
  get 
  hardly 
  any 
  

   plants 
  or 
  butterHies, 
  so 
  I 
  shall 
  do 
  very 
  badly 
  in 
  this 
  way." 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Percy 
  Rendall, 
  F.Z.S., 
  has 
  accepted 
  an 
  appointment 
  

   as 
  Resident 
  Medical 
  Officer 
  to 
  the 
  Sheba 
  Gold 
  -Mining 
  Com- 
  

   pany 
  in 
  the 
  Barberton 
  District 
  of 
  the 
  Transvaal, 
  and 
  has 
  

   left 
  England 
  to 
  take 
  up 
  his 
  quarters 
  at 
  Eureka 
  City, 
  at 
  an 
  

   elevation 
  of 
  5000 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  sea-level. 
  Dr. 
  Rendall 
  

   made 
  a 
  good 
  collection 
  of 
  birds 
  during 
  his 
  recent 
  residence 
  

   at 
  Bathurst, 
  on 
  the 
  Gambia, 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  us 
  an 
  account 
  

   in 
  'The 
  Ibis' 
  for 
  last 
  year 
  (Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  215). 
  His 
  new 
  

   appointment 
  will 
  give 
  him 
  excellent 
  opportunities 
  for 
  ad- 
  

   vancing 
  ornithological 
  knowledge 
  iu 
  a 
  little-explored 
  district. 
  

  

  The 
  Humming-birds 
  of 
  Paraguay. 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Carlos 
  Berg 
  sends 
  

   us 
  for 
  examination 
  a 
  skin 
  of 
  a 
  Humming-bird 
  from 
  Paraguay, 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  of 
  Buenos 
  Ayres, 
  which 
  

   Mr. 
  Salvin 
  has 
  kindly 
  determined 
  as 
  Polytmus 
  thaumantias 
  

   (Cat. 
  B. 
  xvi. 
  p. 
  174). 
  As 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  were 
  

   obtained 
  at 
  Chapada, 
  in 
  Matto 
  Grosso, 
  by 
  H. 
  H. 
  Smith 
  

   [op. 
  cit. 
  p. 
  175), 
  it 
  may 
  well 
  occur 
  in 
  Paraguay. 
  It 
  should 
  

   be 
  therefore 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  Humming-birds 
  of 
  Paraguay 
  

   given 
  in 
  Graf 
  v. 
  Berlepsch's 
  Catalogue 
  (J. 
  f. 
  O. 
  1887, 
  

   p. 
  120), 
  as 
  may 
  be 
  also 
  Hylocharis 
  sapphirina 
  (Cat. 
  B. 
  xvi. 
  

   p. 
  245), 
  of 
  which 
  specimens 
  were 
  procured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Graham 
  

   Kerr 
  on 
  the 
  Pilcomayo 
  [cf. 
  Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  135). 
  The 
  recognized 
  

  

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