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the natives what bird it was, and he told me that its native 
name was “ Inhalalala,’ and said that it was the bird that 
shewed people where there was honey. I stopped the natives 
and told them that I wished to see the honey found. The 
bird immediately started into the bush, and I went with 
two natives to follow it. After we had walked for about 
half a mile into the bush, I saw it perch on a tree in which 
there was a hole in a broken branch. The natives now 
collected some dry grass and set it on fire, and, ascending 
the tree, thrust it into the hole in order to suffocate the bees. 
After this they proceeded to enlarge the hole and to extract 
the honey. The honey consisted of four or five dark combs, 
which the natives put into a bit of a broken cooking-pot. A 
portion of the honey-comb was left on an adjacent branch 
of the tree for the bird, which returned to it before we had 
got far away. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
A. L. Scuater. 
Helvetia, South Melsetter, 
Rhodesia, 
June 1906, 
Sixs,—lI have translated for a Russian sporting periodical 
(‘Psovaia e Rujeinaia Okhota’) Mr. Einar Lonnberg’s 
description of Tetrao urogallus lugens from the April 
number of ‘The Ibis’ (1906, p. 317). Now the well-known 
taxidermist of Moscow, Mr. Th. K. Lorenz, gives (in No. 22 
of the above-named periodical) his account of this bird. 
As he has been engaged during the last quarter of a century 
im collecting materials concerning the palzearctic Galline, 
and as many railway-wagon-loads of Siberian and Russian 
game-hirds pass yearly through his hands (Moscow being the 
centre of this trade), his opinion is of some value. 
Mr. Lorenz informs me that he has had through his 
hands scores of Capercaillies of the “ dugens” form from 
different parts of Russia: North (Governments of Arkh- 
angel and Vologda), East (Perm), and Central (Vladimir, 
Nijny-Novgorod, &c.). Some were young, with very soft 
