in the Frankfurt Museum, are also among the number. 
A special point of interest in this collection is tlie number of 
birds previously only known from Eastern and Equatorial 
Africa which have now been foiind in Southern Abyssinia, 
This extremely interesting collection is being worked out by 
IMr. Ogilvie Grant, and a paper on it will appear in the 
January ‘ Ibis.^ 
Turning now to Asia, I have to record that Major 
Wingate, starting from Shanghai, followed the Yang-tze- 
kiang as far as Lake Tung-ting, wdience he took a south- 
westerly course along the Yuen-kiang through Hoo-nan, 
Kwei-chow, and Yun-nanto Bhamo. A Chinese taxidermist 
accompanied him through this remarkable journey, and a 
fine collection of birds has been forwarded to the British 
Museum, where it is at present under examination. I may 
add that a melancholy interest attaches to the beautiful 
series of birds from the island of Hainan w'hich now' lies on 
the table — the last, and one may almost say the dying, 
contribution to ornithological knowledge made by that 
sterling English naturalist, the late John Whitehead, whose 
loss is sincerely mourned by myself and by all his brother 
ornithologists throughout the world. 
On the whole, therefore, I think, gentlemen, that there is 
no reason that we should be at all dissatisfied Avith the 
j)rcseiit progress of ornithological w'ork in the Eastern 
Hemisphere. As regards the New' World, w'e may now 
expect renewed exertions on the part of our fellow-w’orkers 
on the other side of the Atlantic. They haA'C, 1 think I may 
say, fairly exploited the northern portion of their continent, 
and have for some time been extending their energies over 
jMexico and Central America. In the Antilles they have 
long been at work, and some fine series of birds from the 
Neotropical Region have been accumulated by American 
naturalists. Let us w'ish them every sort of siiccess in their 
efforts, as in these days it is more than ever important that 
the great Anglo-Saxon community should unite together in 
every branch of work. But at the same time let us here 
neglect no oj)portunity of extending our own knoAvledgc of 
