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and habits of Ammodramus maritimus and its allies, with a 

 coloured plate. Mr. O. B. Warren describes the life of the 

 Canada Jay, with illustrations of its nest and young from 

 photographs. From this phase of country-life we pass to 

 Prof. Gill's discussion of the correct orthography of the 

 generic names Pediocoetes and Poocoetes. In this case we 

 are quite disposed to agree with Prof. Gill as to the origin 

 of the terms. But as we prefer '^grammar'' to 'Apriority/' 

 although we accept his derivation, we shall write the two 

 generic names as they are spelt above, being quite uncon- 

 vinced by Dr. Allen's response to ]\Ir. Elliot on the subject of 

 Canon xl. of the A. O. U. Code, Various species and sub- 

 species are described by Messrs. E. W. Nelson and H. C. 

 Oberholser respectively, and will, no doubt, be duly noted in 

 our ' Zoological Record,' Aves ; together with the names of 

 Mr. Ridgway's new Fringillidte. The Report of the A. O. U. 

 Committee on Protection of North-American Birds is well 

 worthy of consideration by those who are anxious to put a 

 stop to traffic in " bird-millinery." In the General Notes 

 are two records of the recent captures of (Estrelata hcesitata 

 on the Ohio River, Cincinnati, assuming that the identifica- 

 tions are correct. According to the Ninth Supplement to 

 the A. O. U. Check-List, the Divers, which used to be 

 Colymbidae, and became Urinatoridse in the Check-List of 

 1898, have now become Gaviidse. So our Ivory Gull, 

 which was called Gavia alba, now becomes Pagophila alba 

 (Gunnerius) ; and after their long insistence upon Sterna 

 tschgrava Lepechin, for the Caspian Tern, the A. O. U. has 

 now come round to Sterna caspia Pallas. Respice finem ! 



In the April number Mr. Outram Bangs reviews the species 

 of Humming-birds found in the Santa Marta region of 

 Colombia, and a coloured frontispiece of Leucuria phalerata 

 is given. Mr. O. G. Libby has an article on the Nocturnal 

 Flight of Migrating Birds. Mr. John Murdoch's Historical 

 Notice of Ross's Roseate Gull [Rhodostethia rosea) will 

 interest a large circle of our readers, for the author has 

 " seen literally thousands" of this species on the wing. He 

 also speaks of " not more than 110 specimens known to be in 



