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have been sent from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and 

 Vulcan Islands. 



" Major Harington has been hard at work on the Indian 

 Timeliidae^ and Captain Bailey has sent fine collections from 

 the Mishmi-Abor Hills. 



"The exploration of the high mountains of Sumatra by 

 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss has yielded fine results. 



"Mr. Mathews has continued his work in the Australian 

 region^ and both his book and his collections have made 

 great progress. He has also published a new List of the 

 Birds of Australia. 



"Mr. Walter Goodfellow has been exploring the interior 

 of Ecuador, etc., and is bringing back very fine collections 

 of living birds and skins of many rare species. 



"In America our friends in the United States continue 

 with unflagging industry to explore the ornithological fauna 

 of their own country, as well as that of South America and 

 the rest of the world. Mr. Phillips has explored the 

 Eastern Soudan and described a new Goat-sucker, while in 

 the Santa Marta, Venezuela, and other South American 

 localities vigorous work is being carried on by American 

 collectors. 



" Mr. Beebe is now bringing his book on the Pheasants 

 to a successful completion — the results of his great 

 expedition to the East (India, China, Malacca, etc.). 



" The Russians have been very prolific in their writings, 

 but unfortunately these writings are quite inaccessible to 

 the rest of the ornithological world. 



"I think, in conclusion, I may say that undiminished 

 activity continues in our favourite science.^' 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., described 

 a new subspecies of Cassowary from Jobi Island, and made 

 the following remarks on Westerman's Cassowary : — 



" In 1871 the Zoological Society purchased from the 

 Amsterdam Gardens a young Cassowary said to have been 

 caught in 1869 at Munsinam. It was identified and figured 



