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discoveries was that the pieces of egg-shell found in 1909 

 by Dr. Hartert, proved to he portions of an egg of a gigantic 

 extinct bird, allied to JEpy ornis. Both Herr Spatz and we 

 ourselves, in 1912 and 1913, have found many more similar 

 pieces, apparently belonging to eggs of several distinct 

 species. 



" Mr. D. A. Bannerman has described an interesting 

 collection of birds made by Mr. Willoughby Lowe on the 

 West Coast of Africa and its islands. The collection and 

 field-notes are most interesting, on account of the light they 

 throw on the distribution of the birds, supplying many new 

 facts. Mr. Bannerman has also explored and written much 

 on the birds of the Canary Islands, and has done a great deal 

 towards completing our knowledge of the Ornis of those 

 interesting islands. 



" Herr H. Grote's ' Beitrag zur Ornis des siidostlichen 

 Deutsch-Ostafrikas ' contains a welcome account of the birds 

 of that little-known region. 



" In North-east Africa an important expedition, under- 

 taken by Lieutenant Cousens, of the Royals, in company with 

 Mr. Willoughby Lowe, has resulted in a valuable collection 

 of birds from the Southern Gwass Nyiro and the little- 

 known country between Lake Rudolf and the Nile. This 

 collection is still under examination. 



" Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has published an account of the 

 Passeres in the first part of his Report on the highly 

 important Abyssinian collection of birds presented to the 

 National Collection by Mr. W. N. McMillan. 



" Great activity has manifested itself during the last 

 two or three years among observers in Scotland, and our 

 knowledge of the migrations of the species of birds in the 

 Scottish Islands and on the mainland has been greatly 

 increased by the observations of Miss E. V. Baxter, Miss L. 

 J. Rintoul, and Mr. Eagle Clarke, to mention only a few. 



"The ' Marking' or 'Ringing' of birds has been largely 

 carried out both in Great Britain and on the Continent, and 

 many records have been obtained of a most unexpected and 

 contradictory nature. 



