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district. The Lesser Kestrel is represented by Tinnunculus 

 cenchris and T. cenchris pekinensis. The dark Booted Eagle 

 (Eutohnaetus minutus, Brehm) is fairly common in N. Mon- 

 golia, in the poplar trees bordering Yenesei. Of the Buzzards, 

 Buteo vulpinus, B, ferooc, and Archibuteo strophiatus were 

 observed in summer, the two latter in Mongolia only. 

 Hierofalco altaicus was seen once ; it seems to be a bird of 

 the elevated steppe (5000-6000 feet). Arundinax aedon, 

 Pall., and Herbivocula schivarzi, Radde, penetrate west- 

 wards to the eastern slopes of the Kusnetzk Alatau (western 

 border of Minusinsk district) . Herbivocula fuscata, Blyth, is 

 still very common in Yenisei. Phylloscopus humii, Brooks, 

 is plentiful in Sayan ; but no Ph. super ciliosus, Gm., was 

 ever seen. Phylloscopus viridanus, Blyth, belongs to the 

 northern slope of Sayan, and is replaced on the southern 

 slope and in Mongolia by Ph. plumb eitarsus, Swinh. Polyo- 

 myias luteola, Pall., is very common in the eastern part of 

 Minusinsk district, but does not cross the Yenesei. Larvivora 

 sibilans, Swinhoe, has the same distribution. Turdus rufi- 

 collis is plentiful in the subalpine zone of Sayan and on the 

 southern slope. On the northern slope it is replaced by 

 T. atrigularis. The House-Martin of the country is the true 

 Chelidon urbica. and not, as one would expect, its eastern 

 ally. Emberiza spodocephalawsis, traced as far as the Kusnetzk 

 Alatau. 



Mr. Howard Saunders informed the Members of tire 

 Club that as he was shortly leaving England for Spain, and 

 would probably be absent for three months, he had handed 

 over the balance of the ' ' Kite Fund " to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 so that the money might be available if required. He had 

 written to Mr. J. H. Salter on the subject. 



The Annual Dinner of the British Ornithologists' Uuion 

 has been arranged to take place at the Trocadero Restaurant, 

 on Wednesday, 11th May, 1904. The price of the Dinner 

 will be 7s. Qd. ; and it is hoped that the attendance will be 

 larger than on the previous occasion. 



