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Kangaroo. As regards extinct birds^ we may also rejoice that 

 (as already announced in ' Tiie Ibis ') the Trustees of the 

 British Museum have acquired for this country the whole 

 collection of remains of the so-called Order Stereornithes 

 got together by Dr. Ameghino, of Buenos Aires. The 

 study of these fossils, which has been assigned to Mr. 

 Andrews, of the Geological' Department of the British 

 JNIuseum^ will^ we have no doubt, throw a flood of light upon 

 the real relations of this series of remains of a former bird- 

 world, which has been recently revealed to us. 



" Now, and lately, as is usual, a large number of British 

 ornithologists are scattered over the earth's surface, some 

 temporarily, others as quasi-pei'manent residents. As shown 

 by Mr. Ogilvie Grant in the last number of ' The Ibis,' 

 Mr. Whitehead is continuing his most successful investi- 

 gations in the highlands of the Philippine group, while 

 Mr. K. Everett has been making similar researches in the 

 mountains of Celebes, and ^Messrs. Pcickett and De La Touche 

 are always busy in China. Mr. Alexander Whyte (.Sir 

 Harry Johnston's naturalist at Zomba) has lately carried 

 out a most successful foray into the Nyika plateau of 

 Northern Nyasaland, and we may shortly expect his col- 

 lections in this country, while ]\Ir. Lort Phillips is planning 

 another winter-expedition into the northern parts of tropical 

 Africa. As regards the Now World, our young friend 

 ^Ir. Graham Kerr (the former naturalist of the abortive 

 Pilcomayo Expedition) has departed on a scientific mission 

 into Western Paraguay, where there is an ample field for 

 discovery, 3ilr. Fitzgerald's new expedition to ascend Acon- 

 cagua and other giants of the Andes will be accompanied by 

 Mr. Philip Gosse, who is said to be a competent collector. 

 In the Australian re.o-ion ]Mr. N'orth at Sydney, Mr. Le Souef 

 at Melbourne, and "Mr. De "^'is in Queensland are ever at 

 work on ornithology ; while in New Zealand Sir Walter 

 BuUer promises us a new anc complete manual of the birds 

 of that island-group, bringing up the subject to the present 

 date, and in the Sandwich Islands Mr. Perkins is still hard 

 at work anion:: the niountaiub. Thus it niav be trulv said 



