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He now gives a list of these additions, enumerating some 30 
of the former and 7 of the latter. 
135. Wood on Hume’s Bush -Quail- 
[Note on Hume’s Bush-Quail (Microperdix manipurensis). By Captain 
II. S. Wood. J. A. S. B. lxviii. pt. 2, p. 110.] 
Capt. Wood states that Hume's Bush-Quail (Microperdix 
manipurensis) is by no means such a rare bird at Manipur as 
Mr. Hume supposed. During his seven years' residence there 
Capt. Wood shot more than 80 specimens. Details as to the 
nesting and habits of the species are given. 
XLV.— Letters, Extracts, Notices, fyc. 
We have received the following letters, addressed to the 
Editors of f The Ibis' ":— 
Sirs, —As I understand that some doubts are still expressed 
as to the truth of the extraordinary instinct attributed to 
the Honey-guide of attracting natives and travellers to bees'- 
nests (see above, p. 425), I beg leave to offer you the 
following account of my own experience in this matter:— 
In October and November 1898, I was on a hunting- 
expedition in the province of Mozambique, in Portuguese 
East Africa. Starting from a station on the Beira Railway, 
I explored the country to the north of the Pungwee River 
for about sixty miles, accompanied by some twenty native 
carriers. 
One day my boys brought me some honey to eat, and 
when I asked them how they had obtained it, they replied 
that the Honey-bird had guided them to the nest. Having 
heard the story of the Honey-guide before, I was much 
interested, and desired the boys, when they found the 
Honey-bird calling to them again, to be sure and let me 
know, as I wished to see the bird and its method of attracting 
attention. A few days later, on returning to camp, I found 
some of my boys absent, and was told that they were 
engaged in taking a bees’-nest. On proceeding to the spot, 
