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inner secondaries — in a mature drake o£ Somnteria spectahilis ; 

 and Mr. Harry C. Oberholser distinguishes the Wren of the 

 westernmost islands of the Aleutian chain as Anorthura 

 meligera, sp, n. Mr. Ridgway's description of five new sub- 

 species of American Jays and three of Fringillidse may be 

 left to the 'Zoological Record/ as may also those in the 

 April nnmber by Mr. S. N. Bishop of three new subspecies 

 from Alaska, and by Mr. W. E. Nelson of yet another new 

 subspecies of Wild Turkey, followed by proposed changes in 

 nomenclature — an evergreen subject. An important paper 

 by Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., on " The Moult of the North- American 

 Tetraonidae (Quails, Partridges, and Grouse),'^ extends from 

 p. 34 to p. 51, and in the April number from p. 143 

 to p. 166, with two uncoloured plates. The Report of the 

 Committee on the Protection of American Birds is, on the 

 whole, encouraging, inasmuch as a general interest has 

 evidently been awakened, and the promoters exhibit know- 

 ledge as well as zeal ; but the opposition encountered from 

 force and falsehood is shown on p. 94 in sentences which 

 deserve to be widely read and circulated. Among the 

 General Notes, the record of Somater'ia stelleri in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence deserves mention, as being the "■ furthest 

 south " occurrence of this species on the east coast of 

 America. 



In the April number Mr. Herrick has an interesting 

 article on the " Care of Nest and Young,^' with four photo- 

 gravures of parent birds attending to sanitai'y requirements. 

 Mr. Allan Brooks (son of our much-regretted M.B.O.U.) 

 contributes some notes on the birds of British Columbia, and 

 records the unparalleled occurrence of the Ivory Gull [Pago- 

 phila ehitrnea) at the southern extremity of Lake Okanagan, 

 in about 48° N., and far inland. This species is almost un- 

 known on the western side of America, and rare even at 

 Point Barrow, so that it seems probable that the route taken 

 by this individual was by the Mackenzie River or by the Great 

 Slave and the Great Bear Lakes. The name here employed 

 for the Ivory Gull is still Gavia alba, the editors having over- 

 looked for the moment that by the 9th Supplement of the 



