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h en the King of Bulgaria and the Princess Theresa of 
Bavaria were made Honorary Presidents of the Congress, 
and the following gentlemen were elected Vice-Presidents — 
Director Otto Herman, Count Arrigoni degli Oddi, Mr. 
Buturlin, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Professor Lonnberg, Dr. Svetlik^ 
Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg, and M. Ternier. One 
of these, Mr. Buturlin, was unable to attend the Congress. 
The Sections were arranged as follows :— 
(i.) Anatomy, Palaeontology, Classification, and Geographical 
Distribution. Presidents: the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 
Dr. E. Hartert, and Dr. Menegaux. 
(ii.) Migration. Presidents: Director Otto Herman, Dr. 
Reiser, and Dr. Parrot. 
(iii.) Biology, Oology , Acclimatization, and Aviculture. Pre¬ 
sidents : Amtsrat A. Nehrkorn, Dr. Blittikofer, and 
the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain. 
(iv.) Bird-Protection. Presidents: Freiherr von Berlepsch, 
Herr von Kazy, and Dr. Carl Hennicke. 
(v.) Poultry and Poultry-rearing. Presidents: Herr Burchard, 
Herr Bahr, and Herr von Gontscharoff. 
The meetings of these five sections commenced on Tuesday, 
the 31st of May, with a paper by Dr. Hartert (in Section i.) 
on the duties of scientific ornithologists, more especially with 
regard to the descriptions of new forms or subspecies. 
The meetings were continued every day until the 4th of 
June. Amongst the papers read were the following :—The 
Hon. Walter Rothschild on the present and former distri¬ 
bution of the Ratitse; Count Hans von Berlepsch on a 
revision of the Tanagridse; Baron Harold Loudon on the 
birds observed by him in Transcaspia in 1908-1909; the 
Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain on birds observed in Corsica and 
in the Dobrudscha ; Professor Koenig on a journey to the 
Sudan in the spring of the present year, where he obtained 
much information respecting the ornithology of that country; 
Mr. Otto Bamberg on the breeding of Tardus ruficollis in 
Mongolia ; Dr. van Oort on a small collection of birds 
