'^■cIc.LiateJi ■ Ilaiiil-list of Birds/ issued some twenty-four years 

 iii!-;.. auci silil used by a large number of ornitliologists for 

 purposes of reference. 



Section TV. Future Explorations suggested. 



In concludi:ig my remarks, I will venture to offer some few 

 W( rds of advice to the Members of the B. O. C.^ or other 

 or.iitLologists^ who may be seeking for places to which to 

 make futuie c;;cursions. 



Aitljongh mere is not much left that is new in the 

 Vakearctie Picgion, there is one not far distant part of it of 

 Mljich we as yf:t know little ornithologically. I allude to the 

 ina/ior "of Asiatic Turke}', particularly the Upper Euphrates^ 

 AviierL' birds are stated by several recent travellers to be 

 abundant. The route to the Persian Gulf^ and so up to 

 ^Jagdad by steamer, is now easy, and the start should be from 

 that quarter in the early spring, when the climate is good. 

 The Euphrates might then be followed to its sources, or so 

 -'ar to the nortii as convenient, the return home being made 

 !}y the ]\Ieditcirauean. An insight would thus be obtained 

 CO the ornithology of Mesopotamia, of which as yet nothing, 

 -I m.iy say, is known. Many interesting links, no doubt, 

 Voiild be found there between the birds of Persia and those 

 of Syria and Palestine. 



-^Vn ornithologist who wished to spend his winter in the 

 "^^ ^st Indies could not do better than visit the Island of 

 Ixia^-garita, off the coast of Venezuela, which, as a recent 

 ^''-veller informs us, is a healthy place, easy of access, and 

 '^'*"^ii provided with birds. It is very desirable to know 

 ■\ lether this island, like Curacao and its satelHtes [cf. 



artert, Ibis, 1893, p. 289), possesses any traces of West- 

 J.\dian fornis or is purely A'enezuelan in character. In 



her .case it would be well worth a collector's visit. 



A n:ore adventurous explorer, who did not fear Africa, 

 alight be ccunselled to visit the Upper Senegal Paver and 

 rhe elevated land between that and the Upper Kiger, over 

 vTjich \\-i2, pax Gallica is now said to prevail. This country 



