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ing the bird life of the tropical parts of Vera Cruz and the various life 

 zones of Mt. Orizaba. In continuation of the work of the Musem in 

 securing material to represent the avifauna of tropical America, Mr. W. 

 B. Richardson is now collecting in western Colombia. The Kuser Asiatic 

 Expedition, under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, has 

 spent the year in Ceylon, and India, where Mr. C. W. Beebe and Mr. 

 Bruce Horsfall have been making detailed studies of wild Pheasants and 

 Jungle Fowl in their native haunts. On the Pacific Coast, the parties 

 placed in the field by Miss Alexander have visited Vancouver Island, 

 northeastern California, and the valley of the lower Colorado River, bring- 

 ing back rich collections for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, at Berke- 

 ley, California. Recently the Smithsonian Institution has undertaken a 

 comprehensive biological survey of the Canal Zone and adjoining region 

 on the Isthmus of Panama, which will include a study of the bird life of 

 this wonderfully rich region. The Field Columbian Museum has sent Mr. 

 W. H. Osgood, with an assistant, to northern Venezuela, and the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has commissioned Mr. Stewardson 

 Brown to collect on Trinidad and in British Guiana. 



Among the publications of the year, the work of most general interest 

 is probably the third edition of The A. O. U. Check List of North Ameri- 

 can Birds. As a result of the labors of the committee in charge of the 

 work, the nomenclature has been brought down to date, and the ranges 

 of the twelve hundred species and sub-species carefully revised. Shortly 

 after the appearance of the Check List, Beck published a list of Water 

 Birds of the Vicinity of Point Pinos, California, which added one more 

 species to North America and several important records of the range or 

 abundance of species on the west coast. Several important local lists, or 

 manuals, have been published, among which should be mentioned Eaton's 

 'Birds of New York,' Wayne's 'Birds of South Carolina,' MacSwain's 

 'Catalogue of the Birds of Prince Edward Island,' Carriker's 'Birds of 

 Costa Rica,' Scott's 'Ornithology of Patagonia (Part II),' McGregor's 

 'Manual of Philippine Birds,' and Clarke's 'Report on a Collection of 

 Birds ' made by P. L. Jouy in Korea. In systematic work, the publication 

 of the fifth part of Godman's 'Monograph of the Petrels' marks the com- 

 pletion of this great work. Cooke's 'Migration of Shorebirds,' Beal's Rela- 

 tion of Birds to the Fruit Industry of California (Part II),' and Thayer's 

 'Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom,' each stands alone in its 

 special field. Of general interest was the announcement that arrange- 

 ments had been made by the Smithsonian Institution with Mr. A. C. 

 Bent for completing Major Bendire's 'Life Histories of North American 

 Birds.' 



The record of bird protection is marked both by success and disaster. 

 In legislation, notable progress was made in the establishment of preserves 



