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that he travelled S.E. into North-east Rhodesia and, after 
paying a short visit to Fort Jameson, went north, right up 
the Loangwa Valley, and thence visited Lake Bangweolo, the 
Lofu River running into Lake Tanganyika, and the Kalun- 
gwisi River running into Lake Mweru. He collected about 
850 skins of Birds, besides Mammals and Insects, and is now 
engaged in working out his results at the British Museum, 
South Kensington. 
Mr. Douglas Carruthers 3 s Movements. —Mr. Carruthers, as 
we expected (see f Ibis/ 1908, p. 547), has left Samarkand, 
and gone back to his old headquarters at the Syrian Pro¬ 
testant College, Beirut. His collection of birds formed in 
the Zarafshan Valley (see above, p. 190) has arrived at South 
Kensington, and will be worked out by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 
Mr. Carruthers has already made a short excursion to the 
oasis of Tebuk, on the Hedjaz Railway. When writing, on 
March 26th, he was about to start on a new expedition from 
the Dead Sea up the Jordan Valley, and thence to the summit 
of Mount Hermon. 
More marked Storks captured on Migration. —In * The 
Times 3 of March 3rd, Mr. P. McKenzie announces the 
shooting, in the Polela district of Natal, of a White Stork, 
which bore on one leg a metal band with the inscription 
“ Ornith, Kospont, Budapest, Hungaria, 209.” To this 
letter there appeared in the same journal for March 17th 
a reply from Dr. O. Herman, Director of the Royal Hun¬ 
garian Central Bureau for Ornithology, stating that the Bird 
in question had been liberated in Transylvania in July 1908. 
We also learn from f The Times 9 of April 26th that the 
Rev. Ernest Schmitz, Director of the German Catholic 
Hospice at Jerusalem, has reported the capture of a marked 
Stork near that city on April 5th to the Hungarian Central 
Bureau for Ornithology, Budapest. A flock of more than 
2000 Storks alighted to rest by one of the lakes near Jeru¬ 
salem, and five were caught. The marked bird was hatched 
at Egri, in Eastern Hungary, last season, and marked with 
the Stork-ring No. 293 on July 8, 1908; it will be placed in 
