478 Letters, Extracts, and Notes, 



British Birds. (Vol. vii. No. 1, 1913.) 



The Condor. (Vol. xv. No. 2, 1913.) 



The Emu. (Vol. xii. pt. 3 (Suppl.) & pt. 4, 1913.) 



Irish Natuvali.-t. (Vol. xxii. Nos. 4-6, 1913.) 



Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums. (Vol. v. No. 1, Kuala 



Lumpur, 1013.) 

 Journal fiir Ornithologie. (Vol. Ixi. Heft 2, April 1913.) 

 Messag'er Ornithologique. (No. 1, Moscow, 1913.) 

 New York Zool. Soc. 17th Annual Report. (New York, 1913.) 

 Ornithologisches Jahrhuch. (Bd. xxiv. Heft. 1, 2, 1913.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 17, 18, 1913.) 

 Zoologischer Auzeiger. (Bd. xli. Nr. 11-13 ; Bd. xlii. Nr. 1-4.) 



XXVI. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Mr. Bannerman's E.vpedltio?i to the Canary Islands. — We 

 have received the following letter from Mr. David A. 

 Bannerman, who is at work on the less well-known islands 

 of the Canary Group. He dates his letter from Haria, 

 LanzarotCj on May 24ii\\, 1913, and writes as follows : — 



" So far I have had a most successful trip, and have got a 

 good series of birds. I spent fifteen days in Fuerteventura, 

 and worked round the north and centre of the island, making 

 a wide detour to take in all the most likely places for birds. 

 Needless to say, the island proved very interesting and to 

 be more mountainous than I had expected to find. There 

 is a central range which rises to about 2300 ft., and I passed 

 over this at 1900 ft. between Santa Maria de Betancuria 

 and Antigua, from which elevation I had a fine view of the 

 immense plains which comprise the greater part of the 

 island. 1'he Bustard seems to be decidedly rare; I am 

 afraid they have been sadly persecuted. I, however, had a 

 good view of two pairs near Antigua, Mr. Meade- Waldo 

 ■will be glad to hear that his Chat, Pratincola dacotice, 

 seems to have decidedly increased its range, being no longer 

 confined to the south-east. 



" I met with them at Caldereta and Oliva in the north, at 

 La Pefia on the west coast, and at Antigua in the centre of 



