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well with the fishes of the lake (see ‘Ibis/ 1909, p. 719). 
They had captured a young hippopotamus, and hoped to be 
able to bring it home. They were just proceeding to form 
a camp on an island some way out in the marshes in order 
to explore fresh ground. The birds had been up to that 
time rather disappointing; hardly any had been seen that 
had not been previously met with on the Molopo, and the 
Mopani forests had proved to be extraordinarily birdless. 
The party expected to be leaving Lake Ngami about the 
middle of November, and to travel slowly down the Botletli, 
arriving home this month *. 
The Museum Heineanum. —The celebrated collection of 
birds at Halberstadt, which was formed in the last century 
by the late Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine and is known 
as the “ Museum Heineanum/’ has been presented by 
Herr Amtrat F. Heine (the son of the founder) to the City 
of Halberstadt. The collection is well known from the 
catalogue of it prepared by Cabanis and Heine, which is con¬ 
stantly quoted by writers on ornithology ; it is of great 
scientific value from the large number of typical specimens 
which it contains. A special building, adjoining the Civic 
Museum of Halberstadt, has been prepared for its reception, 
and the new “Museum lleineaiium" was opened to the 
public with much ceremony on the 23rd of September last 
(cf. Orn. Monatsb., November 1909). 
The Food of British Birds. —At the Meeting of the British 
Association at Dublin in 1908 a committee was appointed, 
on the recommendation of Sect. D, “to investigate the 
Feeding-habits of British Birds by a study of the contents 
of the crops and gizzards of both adults and nestlings, and 
by the collation of observational evidence, with the object 
* Since this paragraph was written we regret to say that the expe¬ 
dition has come to an end, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr. Legge, 
who has returned to England. Mr. Woosnam proposed to remain in the 
Cape Colony for the present. 
