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of the most interesting life-histories I have ever read) has 

 been very ill from blood-poisoning in his arm, which has 

 greatly delayed the progress of his work. He is now, 

 however, I am happy to have been informed, making a good 

 recovery. 



Turning from geographical matters to general works we 

 find two publications of great interest to all ornithologists 

 lately issued by the British Museum— the fourth volume of 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpens 'Hand-list of Birds' and the third 

 volnme of the i Catalogue of Birds' Eggs/ Owing to the 

 great number of additions made of late years to the list of 

 Passerine Birds, a fifth volume has been found necessary to 

 complete the former work, on the importance of which it is 

 not necessary to descant. 



The " Aves " of ' Das Tierreicli ' is also now showing some 

 signs of progress, a new ' Lieferung/ containing Herr Hell- 

 mayr's revision of the Parida, Sittidce, and Certhiidce, having 

 lately made its appearance. When completed it will be an 

 important work, but I fear few of us will live to witness 

 that event, unless more expedition is shown than is at 

 present apparent. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited an apparently 

 new species of Albatross, which he described as follows : — 

 -h Thalassogeron carteri, n. sp. 



Differs from Thalassogeron chlororhynchus in having the 

 bill, including the culmen, black, the face and sides of the 

 head white, without the grey tinge of T. chlororhynchus, and 

 the feet yellowish white in life, without any blackish colour 

 on the digits and. tarsi. 



A single male, with an injured wing, was captured alive at 

 Point Cloates, N.W. Australia, on May 12th, 1900, by 

 Mr. Tom Carter. He describes the bill as black, irides 

 black, legs and feet yellowish white. (Type no. T.C. 142 in 

 Mus. Tring.) 



Mr. Rothschild also made remarks on a large collection 

 of birds received from the Island of Hainan. He exhibited 

 specimens of the beautiful Arboricola ardcns, hitherto only 



