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by Mr. W. Richmond on the Cayenne Swift {Pamjptila 

 cayennensis) , with a coloured plate of the bird and its curiously- 

 shaped nest, which, however, we may remark, has already been 

 well described by Mr. Quelch (see Bull. B. O. C. vi. p. xxvii, 

 and Ibis, 1897, p. 263) — a fact which Mr. Richmond ought 

 not to have overlooked. Dr. Coues contributes a hitherto 

 unpublished letter from W. Swainson to J. Audubon, in 

 which a literary partnership is declined. Dr. J. C. Merrill 

 concludes his "^ Notes on the Birds of Fort Sherman, Idaho " ; 

 Mr. H. C. Oberholser distinguishes the Texan form of the 

 Humming-bird Amazilia cerviniventris Gould as A. c. chal- 

 conota subsp. n. ; Mr. A. W. Anthony distinguishes yet 

 another Noddy, from the Cocos and Socorro Islands, as 

 Anous stolidus I'idgwayi, and describes a new Petrel, smaller 

 and with a more forked tail than 0. leucorrhoa, as Oceano- 

 droma kaedingi sp. n., from the seas between Socorro and 

 Southern California ; he also writes a short paper on other 

 sea-birds. Dr. C. Hart Merriam describes Syrnium occi- 

 dentale caurinum subsp, n., from the Puget Sound region ; 

 and there are other minor communications of local interest. 

 A Report from the A.O.U. Committee on Protection of 

 North- American Birds covers pp. 81-114, and well deserves 

 attention. 



The April number begins with an article by Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson on Colinus godmani, with a plate, and on other Mexican 

 Quails ; and the same author has another paper on Mexican 

 birds. Mr. Joseph Grinnell gives an account of 66 species 

 of birds found at Sitka, Alaska, in summer; and Dr. W. C. 

 Rivers sends a contribution on the avifauna of the spruce- 

 belt in the mountains of Virginia. Mr. Anthony writes at 

 some length on the Petrels of Southern California. Mr. G. 

 H. MacKay^s name is yet again associated with the Terns of 

 Muskeget Island. In a paper on some new races of Birds 

 from Eastern North America, Mr. Outram Bangs resuscitates 

 Audubon^s " Bird of Washington " as Halia'etus leucocephalus 

 washing to7ii J subsp. restaur., and names seven other 

 subspecies, which will doubtless be duly enumerated 

 bv the Recorder of Aves in the ' Zoological Record.' 



