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  Letters, 
  Extracts, 
  Notices, 
  S^c. 
  

  

  famous 
  iu 
  the 
  ranks 
  of 
  ornithological 
  collectors 
  and 
  observers. 
  

   Mount 
  Dalit 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  yet 
  exhausted, 
  and 
  Mounts 
  

   Kalulong 
  and 
  Tamuduk 
  still 
  afford 
  an 
  ample 
  field 
  for 
  

   Mr. 
  Hose^s 
  exertions. 
  Borneo 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  worked 
  out. 
  

  

  ]Mr. 
  John 
  Whitehead, 
  we 
  understand, 
  is 
  contemplating 
  a 
  

   new 
  expedition 
  to 
  the 
  East, 
  and 
  will 
  start 
  shortly 
  ; 
  first, 
  

   probably, 
  for 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  less-known 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Philippine 
  

   group, 
  alter 
  which 
  he 
  will 
  investigate 
  certain 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  

   Papuan 
  Subregion, 
  of 
  which 
  we 
  at 
  present 
  know 
  too 
  little. 
  

   Mr. 
  Whitehead's 
  great 
  experience 
  and 
  previous 
  success 
  render 
  

   it 
  certain 
  that 
  he 
  will 
  employ 
  his 
  time 
  well. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Percy 
  Rendall 
  has 
  arrived 
  at 
  his 
  new 
  quarters, 
  Eureka 
  

   City, 
  near 
  Barberton, 
  in 
  the 
  Transvaal. 
  Birds 
  he 
  finds 
  at 
  

   present 
  " 
  very 
  scarce,'^ 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  " 
  all 
  moulting,^' 
  so 
  he 
  is 
  

   devoting 
  himself 
  to 
  other 
  natural 
  objects 
  for 
  the 
  present. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  — 
  M. 
  Olphe-Galliard 
  and 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  R. 
  Davison. 
  

  

  YictorAimeLeoxOlphe-Galliard, 
  a 
  French 
  ornithologist 
  

   devoted 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  his 
  native 
  country, 
  died 
  

   at 
  Hendaye, 
  Basses 
  Pyrenees, 
  on 
  the 
  2nd 
  of 
  February 
  last, 
  at 
  

   the 
  age 
  of 
  68 
  years. 
  M. 
  Olphe-Galliard 
  is 
  principally 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  an 
  illustrated 
  octavo 
  work, 
  entitled 
  ' 
  Contri- 
  

   butions 
  a 
  la 
  Faune 
  Ornithologique 
  de 
  T 
  Europe 
  occidentale,' 
  

   which 
  was 
  issued 
  at 
  Bordeaux 
  in 
  40 
  fasciculi 
  from 
  1884 
  to 
  

   1892. 
  He 
  also 
  published 
  in 
  1891 
  a 
  'Catalogue 
  des 
  Oiseaux 
  

   des 
  environs 
  de 
  Lyon,' 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  describer 
  of 
  the 
  

   charming 
  little 
  Algerian 
  bird, 
  Moussier's 
  Redstart 
  [Ruticilla 
  

   moussieri) 
  , 
  from 
  specimens 
  obtained 
  in 
  the 
  province 
  of 
  Orau 
  

   by 
  M. 
  Moussier 
  in 
  1846 
  (Ann. 
  Sci. 
  Phys. 
  et 
  Nat. 
  de 
  Lyon, 
  

   ser. 
  2, 
  iv. 
  p. 
  101) 
  . 
  

  

  William 
  Ruxtox 
  Davisox, 
  F.Z.S., 
  Curator 
  of 
  the 
  RaflSes 
  

   Museum, 
  Singapore, 
  whose 
  death 
  took 
  place 
  at 
  Singapore 
  on 
  

   the 
  25th 
  of 
  January 
  last, 
  belonged 
  to 
  a 
  good 
  family 
  in 
  the 
  

   north 
  of 
  England. 
  His 
  father, 
  having 
  married 
  a 
  lady 
  of 
  

   somewhat 
  inferior 
  position, 
  enlisted 
  and 
  went 
  out 
  to 
  India 
  

  

  