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Clarke's excellent papers on the Antarctic Birds, and it is 

 hoped that the third and final one will appear in * The Ibis ' 

 early next year. We are likewise expecting very shortly 

 the issue of the first volume of the results of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition. It will contain Dr. E. A. Wilson's 

 account of the birds met with during the stay of that 

 Expedition in the highest Antarctic latitudes ever reached 

 by man, and cannot fail to be of the greatest interest. 

 I believe, however, that the actual number of species of 

 which examples were obtained by the British Expedition 

 will be found to be not quite so large as that obtained by 

 the Scotch Expedition, owing to the former having made its 

 headquarters at a more southern latitude, where bird-life is 

 naturally more scarce. 



Turning now to the more accessible parts of the world, 

 we find that Africa seems of late years to have received the 

 greatest share of the attention of the exploring ornithologist. 

 Of Captain Alexander's safe return to this country, after 

 traversing Africa from west to east, we are daily hoping 

 to hear, and a large part of his collections, made in the 

 wide district between the Niger and the Nile, has already 

 reached this country. His laborious progress up the stream 

 of the Welle has been briefly recorded in the pages of ' The 

 Ibis/ as likewise the mournful deaths of his two faithful 

 companions ; but Captain Alexander himself we all trust to 

 see amongst us again, and to hear an account of his lengthy 

 and adventurous journey. 



A second important African Expedition is that for the 

 further exploration of the isolated mountain-range of 

 Ruwenzori, on which subject an excellent paper from the pen 

 of our good friend Mr. Frederick J. Jackson has recently 

 been published in ' The Ibis.' This second Expedition, for 

 which the arrangements were made by Mr. W. B. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, and by whose friends and supporters the necessary 

 funds were provided, began its work in the north-eastern 

 corner of the Buwenzori range in September, 1905. It was 

 conducted by Mr. B. B. Woosnam, who was accompanied 

 by Mr. B. E. Dent, Hon. Gerald Legge, Mr. Douglas 



