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 118 THE CONDOR Vol. XXI At Obu, Aichi-ken, Central Japan, JanUary 9, 1905: "Again my traps brought only the common mouse of the rice-fields. So I have decided to leave this place for Nara tomorrow. After noon we went out to take some photographs and I made several exposures showing the infertile hills which characterize the place. They prove to be of conglomerate and sedi~ mentary formation. When returning through the low bushes which cover the hills, a small bird flew up before me. This I shot and found to be new to my collection. In appearance it is much like a creeper, but has a shorter and stout.- er bill and lacks the stiff, pointed tail-feathers of that bird. The tail-feathers are marked with black bars. It seems to be a thrush. At first it flew up just before my feet. I watched the spot where it lit and followed. It did not move, or when I approached near I saw it upon the ground. I retreated to a good shooting distance, the bird watching me and moving only its head. The bushes among which I found this bird were low stunted pines and junipers, scarcely more than knee high." 'On the hill of Mitake (about 2'600 feet high), Kochi-ken, Shikoku, March 7, 1905: "Last evening we shot on Mitake a bird new to my collection. It is prob- ably a bullfinch. To-day we shot another of the same species, but mrked with a beautiful rosy wash. It is probably a male, the less gayly colored one, a fe- male. In this bird, the male, the head, wings and tail are black, back and scap- Ulars grey, rump white, bill black. Cheeks rosy, this color extending over throat, but separated from bill by wide line of black. Breast and sides are grey, washed with rosy. Belly and under tail-coverts greyish-white." There are hundreds of notes similar to the above; there is not space here for others. His later notebooks, especially those of his South American trips, should contain notes that would interest readers of THE CONDOR. In 1908, returning from his long journeying in Asia, he went to Europe with his mothe.r, and there, in the intervals of travel, he did a certain amount of work upon his own collections, which were regarded by Mr. Oldfield Thomas as of greag value to science and, in some respects, the completest in the Muse- um. I regret that I cannot at this writing quote the exact words in which Mr. Thomas congratulated Malcolm most Warmly upon the success of his expedi- tion. In 1909-10 he again went to Asia in the same service, travelling extens- ively through China, in the desert to the north beyond the Great Wall, and in the mountains on the border of Thibet. In later years he went twice to South America, the first trip being made in the company of Mr. Osgood of the Field Museum, the second in the company of the lady to whom he had been happily united in the summer of 1913. From the second trip he returned with health much impaired from the effects of fever, so that an out-of-door employment became imperative, making it for the time im- possible for him to carry out the plans he had made for scientific study and writing. His notes appear to me to offer material which he might, to advant- age, have worked up for publication. There is an interesting article by him in the Overland Monthly for April, 1914, entitled "Forty Days in Quelpart Isl- and" (illustrated). Another illustrated article has been accepted, but not yet published, by the National Geographic Magazine, of Washington, D.C. Last summer when the call went out for men to work in ship-yards, Mal- colm responded to the call. His motive was every whit as patriotic as it would have been had he enlisted in the army, which he was precluded from doing. On