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where the winter-quarters of the Expedition were established 
in 77° N. lat. 
“ The change into summer was quite sudden. Gradually 
the temperature of the snow had risen to zero, and then in 
one day it all melted. The rivers were rushing along, flowers 
were budding forth, and in the air the butterflies were 
flattering. It was a lovely time, bringing hard work for the 
Botanist Lundager, and the Zoologists Manniche and 
Johansen. The birds came nearly all on the same day, most 
of them even at the same hour. One day we had only had 
the ordinary Ptarmigan and the Haven ; the next day we had 
the Sanderling, the King-Plover, the Goose, the Eider-Duck, 
and many others. Young Sanderlings, Icelandic King-Plovers, 
and Sabine’s Gulls have been found by Mr. Manniche, our 
indefatigable ornithologist, and fine specimens were brought 
home.” 
We hope to receive, in due course, an account from Mr. 
Manniche of the birds obtained during this famous expedition. 
News from Mr. A. L. Butler .—Our excellent correspondent 
Mr. A. L. Butler passed some time last year on the Red Sea 
coast of the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, and made many notes 
on the spring migrants. Writing from Khartoum in October 
last, Mr. Butler says that he still continues to obtain speci¬ 
mens of species new to that locality, while from Mongolia, 
on the Upper White Nile, he has lately received examples 
of the little-known Passer shelleyi (Shelley, B. Afr. iii. p. 247). 
The Booth Collection at Brighton. —Mr. Arthur Griffith, a 
Trustee of the “ Booth Museum” at Brighton, has lately 
visited Hastings, and has obtained there some valuable 
additions to the Collection. Amongst these are specimens of 
the Pine-Grosbeak, Red-footed Falcon, Little Gull (in adult 
summer plumage), Ked-necked Grebe, Whiskered Tern, 
Black Lark, Great Reed-Warbler, and Icterine Warbler, all 
well-authenticated examples from Kent or Sussex. We wish 
that all our provincial collections of birds were as well cared 
for and kept up to the mark as that at Brighton. 
