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There was also a very haiidsoine Weaver, sent by our 
esteemed niember, Dr. E. O. Hopkinson ; nutmeg brown above, 
with the tliroat and breast rich red, and the upper abdomen and 
sides thickly spotted with white on a black ground. 
A pair of Grey-winged Ouzels in one of the paddocks 
opposite the Apes House have hatched out, but the young were 
unfortunately drowned during the recent heavy rains.. 
Marking Migrating Birds : We have been requested to 
draw attention to a scheme for marking migrating birds ; we have 
much pleasure in doing so, and hone all of our members who 
can will lend their co-operation. 
" A short while ago a Stork was shot in Rliodesia bearing upon its leg 
a metal ring, which proved that the bird had been marked in Prussia, when 
it was a nestling, by the Rossitten Bird Observatory, while more recently a 
Stork similarly 'ringed' in Hungary was shot in the Kalabary Desert. 
Mr. H. F. \Vitherl)y, the Editor of British Birds, is inaugurating in 
connection with his Magazine a scheme for marking birds in a similar way 
in this country. It is hoped by this means to gain a more exact idea of the 
movements of individual birds than has ever been possible by any other 
method, and this should not only throw light upon the more general aspects 
of migration, but it should tell us a great deal that is at present obscure 
with regard to particular points. For examjile, while we may know the 
general distribution of a species in winter and sunnner, we do not know the 
extent of the migration of individual birds ; or, indeed, whether in such 
cases as the .Song-Thrusli and Robin, certain individuals migrate at all. 
The movements of sea-birds are very little understood, and much might be 
learned from marking a large number. This jjlan might also tell us what 
influence age has upon plumage, etc. ; where a young bird, whose birthplace 
is known, breeds; whether individuals return to previous nesting haunts, 
and whether pairs come together again in successive breeding seasons. 
A number of the readers of Biilish Birds are taking the matter up, 
and it is expected that a large number of birds of all kinds will be ringed 
this summer. The rings are extremely light and do not in any way interfere 
with the Ijird's power of flight ; each is stamped ' Witherby, High Holboru, 
London,' and bears a distinctive number, which in the smaller sizes is 
stamped inside the ring, and it is hoped that anyone into whose hands 
should fall a bird so marked will send the bird and the ring, or, if this is 
not possible, then the particulars of the number on the ring, the species of 
bird, and the localit}' and date of capture to the address given." 
The Giza Zoo : We have received the Annual Report 
and List of Animals of these well-controlled Gardens. The 
