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143. Machetes pugnax (Linn.). 
Tot anus pug nax Reich, i. p. 216. 
a, b. [<£ ? .] Lake Naivasha. (Nos. 205,207.) 
[Ruffs and Reeves were common on the shores of Lake 
Naivasha.— A. B. P.~\ 
144. PoDTCIPES CAPENSIS Licllt. 
Colymbus capensis Reich, i. p. 18. 
a. S juv. Mombasa, 26th Aug., 1900. (No. 7.) 
This is quite a young bird, with the sides of the face and 
throat white, streaked and blotched with brown; the rufous 
feathers are just making their appearance. 
145. Columba guinea (Linn.). 
Columba guinea Reich, i. p. 401. 
a. Mt. Kilimanjaro, 18th Jan., 1902. (No. 250,) 
[Multitudes of these Pigeons came to drink at a water- 
hole near Kilimanjaro.— A. B. P.] 
146. Excalfactoria adansoni (Verr.). 
Excalfactoria adansoni Reich, i. p. 509. 
a. [ ? .] Mombasa, Sept. 1900. (No. 14.) 
XXXII.— Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress 
of Ornithologists. 
The Fifth International Congress of Ornithologists was held 
this year at Berlin under the presidency of Professor Anton 
Reichenow. A meeting, to enable the members who had 
already arrived to renew their acquaintanceship, was held on 
Sunday evening, the 29th of May, in the Landwehr Offizier- 
Kasino, Hardenbergstrasse, close to the Zoological Gardens, 
where most of the subsequent gatherings were also held. But 
the first formal meeting took place in the Grand Saloon of 
the Zoological Gardens in the forenoon of the 30th of May, 
when Professor Reichenow gave an excellent address on the 
progress of ornithology during the last one hundred and 
fifty years, and on its present state. Prior to the President’s 
Address the election of officers for the meeting took place, 
