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Parrot was brought from the Manyuema country, on the west 
of Lake Tangyanika, opposite Ujiji, where, according to Dr. 
Livingstone^s information, the chief is called “ Mana-kos,” or 
“ King of the Koskos” or Parrots. The existence of Psittacus 
erithacus in the Niam-niam country, on the western water¬ 
shed of the White Nile, was already known*; but the fact of 
its occurrence on Lake Tangyanika is, we believe, new. Dr. 
Kirk says it is often brought down to Zanzibar by the dealers 
in ivory.—P. L. S. 
Mr. Clark Kennedy is preparing a volume on the natural 
history of the Orkney Islands, which will be published about 
the end of June. It will be entitled ‘The Sportsman and 
Naturalist among the Isles of Orkney/ and will contain a 
complete list of all the birds of those islands, with notes 
on their habits and migrations, and descriptions of other 
animals and plants met with there.—P. L. S. 
M. Bourcier's collection of Humming-birds was, as we are 
informed by Mr. D. G. Elliot, sold in Paris in the beginning 
of last March. Mr. Elliot bought nearly all the types, and 
also the specimens of the rarer species, for his own collection, 
where, he requests us to say, they will in future be accessible 
to any one desirous of consulting them. 
We are also informed that Count Turati, of Milan, has 
bought half the collection of Humming-birds belonging to 
the late E. Yerreaux. The remaining portion is still undis¬ 
posed of.—P. L. S. 
The New Paradise-birds and their Discoverers. —The con¬ 
cluding part (iv.) of the ‘Journal fur Ornithologie 3 for 1873 
(dated October 1873, but only issued a few days since) con¬ 
tains the description of a “new Paradise-bird, Epimachus 
wilhelmince ,” by Dr. A. B. Meyer. The article is dated 
“Andai (New Guinea), 15 March, 1873.” (Did the MS. 
* Cf. Heuglin, Ornith. Nordost-Afrika’s, p. 745. 
