440 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



A splendid specimen of a Salmon Trout in fine condition was 

 caught in the Mill Pool, Dedham, on Wednesday at midnight, 

 measuring 2 ft. 9 in. in length and drawing the scale at 10 lbs. — 

 (' East Anglian Daily Times,' Oct. 11th, 1913.) 



Information of a remarkable freak of Nature comes from Port 

 Alfred (Cape Colony), where, in the nest of a pair of Ostriches, 

 belonging to Mr. D. Aitchison, a chick having four legs, four wings, 

 two tails, and one head, was hatched. The feet and other parts of 

 the bird are perfectly formed. This extraordinary specimen has been 

 forwarded to the Director of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown. — 

 (' The African World,' Oct. 18th, 1913.) 



News has been received in London of the death at Loanda, 

 Angola, Portuguese West Africa, on October 31st last, of Dr. William 

 John Ansorge, the famous traveller and explorer. Dr. Ansorge was 

 educated at Cambridge, and afterwards went to Mauritius, where he 

 became Professor at the Royal College, and also did a great deal of 

 private tutoring. Subsequently he returned from Mauritius, and at 

 the age of forty began the full medical course at St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, and qualified as a doctor. He did not practise in England, 

 but went straight out to Africa, where he became district medical 

 officer in Uganda and Southern Nigeria. After retiring from Govern- 

 ment service he continued his scientific and exploration work, and 

 specialized in West African birds and fishes. He made new discoveries 

 in nearly every department of the animal kingdom, and sent speci- 

 mens to the British Museum and the Belgium Museum at Brussels. 

 He also used to collect specimens for the Hon. Walter Rothschild. — 

 ('Evening News.') 



Dr. Ansorge' s principal publication was ' Under the African Sun ' 

 (1899), in which a number of new zoological species were described 

 by various specialists. Many of these descriptions, however, had 

 been published in advance in 1898. 



