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Neiglibourliood of Sfax ' (Tunis), by P. Bede. A little book 

 called ' La Protection des Oiseaux/ Guide pratique by 

 Monsieur Magaud d'Aubusson, will please those interested in 

 ' Bird-Protection/ tliougli I fear the introduction and great 

 spread of the Mongoose and the Mynah {Acridotheres tristis) 

 Avill render null and void much of the protective work in the 

 French Colonies, and incidentally also all over the world. 



" In Germany no important works on the birds of the 

 country have appeared during the year, but many local lists 

 and observations have been published. 



" The most important papers on African birds have been 

 those of Mr. Claude Grant on the East African collections 

 of Captain G. P. Cosens, made by Mr. Willoughby Lowe, 

 aud Mr. Bannerman on the birds collected by the late 

 Captaiu Boyd Alexander. I should, however, like to point 

 out that Mr. Claude Grant assigns the Ostrich g^^^ obtained 

 at Loita to Strut/no massaicus, while in reality the Ostrich 

 of the Gwasso Nyiro and Loita Uplands is the blue-necked 

 and blue-thighed Struihio m.olybdophanes and not the red 

 necked and thighed S. massaicus. 



" In Italy a most interesting history of the Turin Museum 

 collections has been published by our veteran friend Count 

 Salvadori. 



"• In Holland and Denmark the respective Ornithological 

 "Societies have been very active, aud much of interest has 

 been published. 



" Our Russian confreres have been very active, and much 

 has been written on the Ornis both of their Asiatic and 

 European possessions. We are specially glad to have at 

 last a German translation of Professor Suschkin's most 

 important work in Russian on the ' Birds of the Middle 

 Kirghize Steppes.' Two articles — or, rather, works — on 

 Oceanic birds, though not published in the last 14 months, 

 must be mentioned, viz. Dr. Sarasin's ' Birds of New 

 Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands' and Mr. Bryan's 'Some 

 Birds of Molokai.' In both these highly interesting accounts 

 the authors deplore the ravages in the Avifauna carried out 

 by the Mynahs and Mongoose. 



