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carefully studied by them. But it is a little doubtful, I 

 think, how far they will be induced to follow his system of 

 universal trinomials, and to recognize all the multitudinous 

 local forms which he shows to be distinct. 



The Oriental Region, 



Amongst recent good work iu the Oriental Region I may 

 call special attention to the important account of the birds 

 of Formosa (now happily a Japanese possession), based by 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant and Mr. La Touche on the collection 

 made there (in 1906) by Mr. Goodfellow, one of the most 

 successful of our modern explorers. The new Goldcrest 

 {Regulus goodfeUoiai) is certainly of remarkable interest, and 

 so is the Mikado Pheasant, although, as yet, we have only 

 caught its tail. Descending a little south, we find the 

 Philippine Archipelago now occupied by our American 

 friends. We may safely leave the Philippine Ornis, with 

 its many attractive forms and representative species, to 

 Secretary Worcester, Mr. McGregor, and their assistants. 

 It will take them some time to finish the business oif, 

 for the islands are many, and every one of them must 

 be thoroughly explored before the collector's labours are 

 over. 



In British India I may mention that Major- Magrath 

 and Lieut. Whitehead, new and acceptable recruits to our 

 band of British Ornithologists, have recently been stationed 

 in Kohat and Bunnu, on the frontiers of Afghanistan, and 

 that they propose to give us an account of their discoveries 

 in this almost unexplored land in an early number of ' The 

 Ibis.^ 



The Ethiopian Region. 



We will now consider what has been lately done in the 

 Ethiopian Region, which, as is well known, is " always pro- 

 ducing something new.'' In the first place, Egypt (although 

 more strictly Palsearctic than Ethiopian) has now the 

 advantage of a resident Ornithologist in the person of 

 Mr. Nicoll, the Assistant Director of the Zoological Gardens 



