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Sii?j — It may interest some of your readei^s to learn tliat an 

 immature Greenland Falcon (Falco candicans) flew on board 

 the 'Braemar Castle' in Lat. 38° N. and Long. 12° W. 

 (W. of Lisbon) on October the 21 st, and was caught when 

 perching in the rigging. I think this must be the "' farthest 

 south'"' for this species. Large flocks of Pomatorhine Skuas 

 {Sterco7-arius pomatorhinus) were passed in the air and on 

 the water in the Bay of Biscay, some fifty miles south-west 

 of Ushantj on October the 19th^ which were evidently 

 migrating southward. 



I am, Si>", 



Yours &c., 



Philip W. Munn. 

 Laverstoke, Hants, 

 December 4, 1913, 



Mr. George L. Bates ivrites as follows from Bitye, German 

 Cameroon, under the date 30 Aug., 1913. — The most interest- 

 ing thing in tte way of field-work that I can report is a 

 trip last January to Akonolinga on the Nyong River north 

 of here. The distance is pei^haps between 75 and 100 miles 

 from Bitye, by the indirect road one has to travel. I had 

 never been in that direction before, and was surprised at the 

 great change in the look of the country in so short a distance. 

 Akonolinga is at the edge of the " grass-land." There is 

 still forest to be seen about there in places, but a large part 

 of the country is covered with big grass ten feet high, 

 with only a few trees in it. The wide river-bottom there, 

 Avhich is doubtless overflowed in the wet season, was in 

 January a grassy plain, the grass being of a smaller kind 

 than that on the high ground. On this grassy bottom, one 

 who had long been accustomed to the paths and the confined 

 views of this forest country, could feel the delightful sensa- 

 tion of being able to see and to walk at will in any direction. 

 Here many birds were found, including a number of species, 

 especially of the Weaver-bird family, that I had never seen 

 before. There were also a good number of European winter 

 migrants, which are rarely seen here in the forest region. 



