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ORNITHOLOGICAL MEETING AT SERAJEVO, 



BOSNIA.* 



From the 25th to 28th September last there was held in 

 Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, under the auspices of the Local 

 Government of Bosnia, an Ornithological Meeting, which has 

 especially discussed questions of Phsenology. t The Meeting 

 was attended by sixty-four members, of whom there were thirty 

 from Hungary, eighteen from Bosnia, nine from Austria, six 

 from Germany, and one from Italy. 



During the meeting, which was presided over by Professor 

 R. Blasius, of Brunswick, the following communications were 

 made : — 



0. Reiser (Serajevo) : On the Ornithological Researches of the Serajevo 

 Museum in the Balkan Peninsula. 



O. Herman (Budapest): Report on the present status of Phaenology, 

 and on the activity of the Hungarian Ornithological Central Office. 



Rev. T. Hegyfoky (Turkeve, Hungary) : On the relations between 

 Phsenology and Meteorology. 



Dr. L. Lorenz von Liburnau (Vienna) : Report on the organization 

 aud activity of the Austrian Commission for Ornithological Observations, 

 and on the results obtained by the observations of Migratory Birds in the 

 years 1897-98 in Austria. 



Gaston Gaal (Csaszta, Hungary) : The great abundance of the Swallow 

 (Hirundo rustica) during the year 1898 in Hungary. 



Steph. Chernel (Koszeg, Hungary) : On the utility and injuriousness 

 of Birds judged upon positive basis. 



Prof. H. Nitsche (Tharaudt, Germany): The distribution of the Com- 

 mon Heron in Saxony. 



* For this report we are indebted to the good offices of Dr. G. Horvath, 

 the Natural History Director of the " Museum National Hongrois " at 

 Budapest. 



f This word is seldom used, and we have been informed by a very high 

 authority that it may be defined as " Observational Biology," and as applied 

 to birds, as it is here, may be taken to mean the study or science of observa- 

 tions on the appearance of birds. — (Ed.) 



