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Next we may allude to articles by Dr. J. A. Allen on the 

 vexed question of Strix v. Aluco (wlierein his conclusions 

 agree with those of Prof. Newton and Dr. Coues), and on 

 Columhina v. Chamapelia ; while these serve to draw our 

 special attention to the Fourteenth Supplement to the 

 A. O. U. Check-List given in the July number. 



The chief distributional paper is that of Messrs. Beyer, 

 Allison, and Kopman on the birds of Louisiana (Pt. IV. 

 April, Pt. V. October), a most useful piece of work and far 

 more than a mere list of species. In the April number we 

 have also articles by Mr. W. A. Dawson on the Avifauna of 

 the Olympiades (a name he proposes for three reserves 

 among the islands off the West Coast of Washington State), 

 by ]\Ir. H. G. Smith on that of Colorado, by Mr. E. S. 

 Woodruff on that of Shannon and Carter Counties, 

 Missouri ; in July others by Mr. R. H. Harlow on that of 

 Eastern Pennsylvania and by Mr. C. J. Pennock on that 

 of Delaware ; in October by Mr. A. A. Saunders on that of 

 Central Alabama, by Mr. J. M. Edson on that of the 

 Bellingham Bay Region in the north-west of the United 

 States, by Mr. E. Thompson Seton on that of Manitoba, 

 by Mr. N. Hollister on that of the Needles Region, 

 California, and by Mr. A. B. Reagan on that of the 

 Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. 



Returning to the April number we find Mr. Ruthven 

 Deane again to the fore with a short paper on the Passenger 

 Pigeon in confinement {cf. ' Auk,' xiii. p. 234) and the 

 probability of its immediate extinction; in July Mr. E. S. 

 Cameron gives us the benefit of his experiences with regard 

 to the Golden Eagle in Montana, Mr. J. H. Riley discusses 

 the broad-winged Hawks of the West Indies, and describes 

 as a new subspecies Buteo platypterus insulicola, Mr. E. J. 

 Court writes on the Treganza Blue Heron (with two plates), 

 Mr. F. H. Allen on Larus kumlieni and other northern Gulls 

 at Boston, Mr. J. H. Fleming on the destruction of Olor 

 columhianus at Niagara, and Mr. A. H. Clark on the Macaw 

 of Dominica (which he provisionally terms Ara atwoodi). 

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