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Lynes will soon favour us with a report for ' The Ihis ' on 

 the fine series of birds he has collected. Mr. Lowe has 

 again set forth, this time in company with an enthusiastic 

 young friend Mr. H. R. Hardy, for the Ivory Coast, a 

 portion of West Africa belonoing to France and lying 

 between the British colonies of Sierra Leone and the 

 Gold Coast and not hitherto explored. We wish them 

 all luck. 



Mr. Hartert spent some weeks in Cyrenaica, east of 

 Tripoli, during the spring, a country but little known 

 orniihologically ; and Mr. Jourdain made a second expe- 

 dition to Spitsbergen last summer and added a number 

 of species to the list of birds obtained there. We under- 

 stand that he is preparing a handbook on the Birds of the 

 group. Mr. Witherby, too, has made two expeditions to 

 Spain during the past year and has added a good deal to 

 our knowledge of the avifauna of the Iberian Peninsula. 



Captain Wilkins, the naturalist of the 'Quest' expedition, 

 addressed the Club only last month and gave us some 

 information about what he had found in the islands of 

 the South Atlantic ; while the birds brought back by the 

 first Everest expedition have been worked out and published 

 in the pages of ' The Ibis ' by Mr. Kinnear. 



Of works completed or in progress during last year, 

 the first place must be given to Dr. Hartert, who has 

 finished his ' Vogel. pal. Fauna.' Mr. Chubb has also 

 completed his work on the ' Birds of British Guiana,' and 

 Mr. Bannerman has published a charming account of his 

 long experience of the Canary Islands. Mr. Baker has 

 commenced a new edition of the 'Fauna of British India' 

 series, the first volume of which was recently published ; 

 while the parts of Witherby's 'Practical Handbook of 

 British Birds ' and Mathcws^'s ' Birds of Australia ' appear 

 with tolerable regularity. 



We have little to report from the still distracted continent 

 of Europe. In Germany Dr. Stresemann has succeeded 

 Dr. Reichenow as the Custosof Birds in the Berlin Museum 

 and also as editor of the two German bird-journals, the 

 * Journal fiir Ornithologie ' and the ' Ornithologischo Monats- 



