156 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



EDITOKIAL GLEANINGS. 



Adolphe Boucard, a well-known naturalist and traveller, died on 

 the 15th March, in his sixty-sixth year, at his residence atHampstead. 

 His name is principally connected with Central America, where he 

 made more than one natural history expedition. His first journey 

 appears to have been made in 1851, when he visited Mexico, Nicaragua, 

 and California. His last expedition was undertaken in 1877, and was 

 directed to Panama, Costa Eica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Orni- 

 thology and entomology were his favourite studies, especially the first, 

 on which he published a number of memoirs. His ' Genera of Hum- 

 ming-birds ' was published in 1895, and in Costa Eica he discovered a 

 new genus and species of these birds — Arinia boucardi, Muls., only 

 recently rediscovered by an American collector. A few years back he 

 presented a fine collection of bird- skins — some twenty thousand speci- 

 mens — to the Paris Museum, and a very large number of duplicates to 

 an American museum. Of recent years he was less familiar to 

 collectors, but formerly was a well-known dealer in London. He was 

 the recipient of many honorary degrees, and was much respected. 

 For the above particulars we are largely indebted to Mr. W. F. H. 

 Eosenberg. 



The Fourth International Ornithological Congress will be held in 

 London under the presidency of Dr. E. Bowdler Sharpe, and will 

 extend from June 12th to 17th. The Secretaries are Dr. Ernst J. 0. 

 Hartert, of Tring, and Mr. J. L. Bonhote, of Ditton Hall, Fen Ditton, 

 Cambs. Unless otherwise stated, the meetings of the Congress will 

 take place at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. An excellent 

 programme is arranged, and the Congress promises to prove a great 

 success. 



The following note by Mr. D. W. Prosser, extracted from the ' Fishing 

 Gazette ' of March 11th, is of some importance to those ornithologists 

 who are studying Welsh birds : — 



" On Jan. 7th a very interesting article appeared in the ' Fishing 

 Gazette ' on a ' Bare Bird shot in Berkshire,' called Y trochydd Mawr. 



