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This year I am not so fortunate, and I trust therefore you 

 will excuse the brevity and poverty of my effort. 



'^As I began last year with Africa, I will do so again. 

 Dr. Hartert and I paid our sixth visit to Algeria and the 

 ' Territoires du Sud ' and were again able to collect much 

 interesting material ; the collection of eggs which we pro- 

 cured was very extensive,, and we obtained also a good series 

 of skins. The most important results of our trip were the 

 rediscovery^ in its type locality, after 57 years, of the 

 true Garrulus minor and also of Alauda cristata randoni. 



"The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain also made a very successful 

 oological expedition to Algeria. 



" Herr Spatz, this time accompanied by Herr Geyer von 

 Schweppenburg, continued his exploration of the vast 

 regions of the Western Sahara. He reached Ideles, at the 

 foot of the great Hoggar Mountains, and brought home four 

 or five most interesting new birds. The insects collected on 

 this trip go far to show that the Hoggar Mountains are 

 the southern boundary of the Western Palsearctic Region, 

 several of the species represented being purely tropical 

 forms. 



"A very successful expedition to the Egyptian Soudan 

 was carried out by Captain Lynes, R.N., Mr. Abel Chapman, 

 and Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe ; several new species were 

 obtained. 



"■ In South Africa there is continued activity amongst 

 our colleagues, and their Journal contains much of interest 

 both in new species and biological notes. 



"Major Kelsall's paper on his fine collection of birds 

 from Sierra Leone, which appeared in ' The Ibis,' advances 

 our knowledge considerably. 



"As regards Great Britain, Miss E. V. Baxter, Miss 

 Rintoul, and Mr. Eagle Clarke have continued their valuable 

 migration and faunistic studies on the islands and the main- 

 land of Scotland, and the eighth Migration Report published 

 by the B. O. C. records a mass of information concerning 

 the movements of birds in Spring and Autumn throughout 

 England. 



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