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Letters , Extracts , Notices , fyc. 
and it has now been completed by Dr. Guillemard, the 
author of the ‘ Cruise of the Marchesa/ &c., and will be 
issued by Mr. Murray under the title of * The Birds of 
Siberia.’ 
Death of Captain Wellby. —With great regret we see re¬ 
corded the death of Capt. M. S. Wellby, of the 18th Hussars, 
on Aug. 5th, from wounds received in the recent fight at 
Pardekop. Capt. Wellby was one of the most able and 
intrepid of modern British explorers, having traversed Asia 
from Leh to Pekin, and Africa from Abyssinia by Lake 
Rudolph to the Nile. On returning to England some 
months ago from the latter arduous journey, he hurried off 
to join his regiment in South Africa, and met with his end 
as already mentioned. Capt. Wellby had a great love for 
natural history, although the opportunities afforded to him 
by his rapid style of travel did not give him much chance of 
collecting. During his stay at Abbis Abeba, however, on 
his last expedition, he managed to make a few skins of the 
following species, as kindly determined for us at the British 
Museum :— Buteo augur, Turacus donaldsoni , Lamprocolius 
chalybeus, Heterorhynchus reichenowi , Dryoscopus cethiopicus, 
and Motacilla melanope. 
These skins we propose to deposit in the National Collec¬ 
tion.—P. L. S. 
Mr. Charles Hose’s return to Borneo. —Mr. Charles Hose, 
DSc., E.Z.S., has just returned to his residency on the 
Baram River, Borneo, after a well-earned rest of a few 
months in this country, with every intention of resuming 
his well-known studies of the fauna of that district. Mr. 
Hose contemplates the publication of an illustrated volume 
on the Birds of British Borneo, for which, as is well known, 
he has been making preparations for many years. There is 
no one among living ornithologists better acquainted with 
the birds of Borneo or more competent to undertake such a 
work. 
