120 Letters, Announcements, &;c. 



West-Indian birds into one without a rival in any feature.'^ — 

 T/ie Auk, i. p. 403. 



Ornithological Works in Progress. — The next (tenth) volume 

 of the ' British ]Museum Catalogue of Birds/ to contain the 

 account of the Dicteidie^ lliruudinidae^ Mniotiltidje, and allied 

 families^ is now in course of preparation by Mr. K. Bowdler 

 Sharpe. The eleventh volume^ devoted to the three great 

 Neotropical families Coerebidre, Tanagridce^ and Icteridae, has 

 been undertaken by Sclater, and will be issued next year. 



Mr. Symington Grieve announces a history of the ' Great 

 Auk or Garefowl/ its archaeology and remains, to be published 

 by Mr. T. C. Jack, of London and Edinburgh, and Mr. F. S. 

 Mitchell a volume of the ' Birds of Lancashire ' (Vau Voorst). 

 Dr. G. Ilartlaub is at work on a new collection of birds from 

 Emin Bey. Capt. Shelley has undertaken the determination 

 of the birds collected by Mr. H. H. Johnston on Kilimand- 

 jaro, and has already read his first paper on this subject 

 before the Zoological Society, He has also in preparation a 

 general list of all the known Ethiopian birds, with localities. 



Our President, Lord Lilford, we are j)leased to be able to 

 add, is in sufiiciently good health to undertake a new Bird- 

 book, to be called ' Coloured Figures of the Birds of the 

 British Islands.' The first number of this work will be 

 ready in April next. 



Proceedings of the Ridgivay Ornithological Club. — The 

 Ridgway Ornithological Club met at the Academy of Scioices, 

 Chicago, on Thursday, Dec. 4th. A donation of skins was 

 received from Mr. H.L.Fulton. Papers read: — ''The Genus 

 Helminthophaga," by Dr. Morris Gibbs ; " The White-rumped 

 Shrike " (impaling insects on barb-wire fences in Texas), by 

 George H. Ragsdale ; "The Economic Structure of Birds," 

 by H. K. Coale. 



