400 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Corrections to Mr. Buturlin's article on the Rosy Gull. — 

 Mr. Buturlin requests us to make the following corrections 

 in his article on the Rosy Gull in our last number : — 

 P. 135-. — The Tern here referred to is the Arctic Tern, 



Sterna macrura Nauni. 

 P. 139. — The Skua here mentioned is not Buffon's Skua, 



but the Pomatorhiue Skua, Lestris pomatorhinus 



(Temm.). 



The New Ruwenzori Expedition. — In our last number 

 (above p. 222) we gave some information respecting the new 

 expedition for the further exploration of Ruwenzori, under 

 the leadership of Mr. R. B. Woosnam, which left England in 

 September last. We have now the pleasure of announcing 

 that the party reached that famous mountain (via Mombasa, 

 Entebbe, and Fort Portal) without incident, and at the end of 

 December were safely encamped in the Mupuku Valley near 

 a small hamlet called Bihunga, at an elevation of from 6000 to 

 7000 feet above the sea-level. 



Mr. Woosnam, writing to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, says : — 



11 I have not been into the forest yet, but it looks 

 impenetrable. Below us are the undulating lower hills, 

 appearing from a distance as if they were covered with nice 

 short grass. But in reality they are jungles of Elephant- 

 grass fifteen feet high, mixed with reeds and creepers." 



Mr. Woosnam does not give a good account of the weather 

 on Ruwenzori. " We left Fort Portal and came up here in 

 pouring rain, and it has rained every day except one for the 

 last eight days. Everything is a sea of mud and water." 



In another letter (dated January 15 th) Mr. Woosnam 

 writes : — 



" We are getting on better now, having put up a good 

 workshop. We have already preserved about 400 birds and 

 82 mammals, besides a good many insects. The weather 

 has cleared up, and we get a fair quantity of sunshine." 



