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what has been done within the limits of our Indian Empire. 

 Oustalet's new work on the Ornis of the Cochin-Chinese 

 provinces, of which the first part is already issued, will 

 supply much required information on the further side of the 

 continental portion of this Region. All the great islands of 

 the Oriental Archipelago have now been more or less investi- 

 gated, and a splendid volume on the ornithology of the 

 debatable land of Celebes has been lately provided for us by 

 the labours of Dr. A. B. Meyer and Mr. Wiglesworth. At 

 the same time it must not be supposed that even here there 

 is not much more work to be done by the patient collector. 

 It is difficult to point to the exact locality in the Oriental 

 Region to which the traveller should be specially directed. 

 The sad fate of John Whitehead prevents me from suggesting 

 Hainan with its unhealthy climate, and the Philippines are 

 at present closed to ornithological investigation ; but there 

 are many crumbs to be picked up by the student of zoology 

 in the Malayan Archipelago, as Mr. Rothschild's collectors 

 have recently shown us. 



III. The Ethiopian Region. 



It is in the Ethiopian Region, perhaps, that Geographical 

 Ornithology has made the greatest progress of late years. 

 In nearly every district, both in the south and along a broad 

 band running up Eastern Africa to Somaliland, collections 

 have been made and described, and vast additions have thus 

 accrued to our knowledge of the African Ornis. Among 

 those who have contributed to this result I may mention the 

 names of Alexander, Andersson, Forbes, Ogilvie Grant, 

 Jackson, Johnston, Lord Lovat, Lort Phillips, Bowdler 

 Sharpe, Shelley, and Weld-Blundell as efficient workers in 

 the field or in the cabinet. But there have been many other 

 celebrated collectors, and our German colleagues have been 

 especially active. These extensive acquisitions to our 

 knowledge of the Ethiopian Ornis are now being worked 

 up in the two summaries prepared, one in this country by 

 Capt. Shelley and the other at Berlin by Prof. Reichenow. 



