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method employed in the Check List. It is an ultra conservatism 

 that is annoying, exasperating and at the same time ridiculous. 

 The same clumsy method is adhered to, however, when the meas- 

 urements of Hutchin's Goose are given in inches by Dr, Clark, 

 while he uses the metric system at other times. Wdiy we should fol- 

 low England in this respect and employ such an out-of-date system 

 of measuring, trailing along 120 years behind the times, passes the 

 miderstanding of man. 



" Report on a Collection of Birds Made by Pierre Louis Jouy in 



Korea." By Austin II. Clark. 



A careful enumeration of a collection of birds made by the late 

 Mr. Jouy. with annotations, covering twenty-nine pages. As the 

 references are given in regard to the European and Asiatic species 

 mostly, it will be of interest only to those who have a good knowl- 

 edge of those species. We have in the past had an acquaintance 

 with most of these and are therefore in a position to say that the 

 list as published is a most welcome and important addition to the 

 literature relating to the birds of P^astern Asia. w. f. ii. 



FIELD NOTE^S 



Notes from Eastern Ohio. — Snowy Owl in Jefferson Co.. Ohio. — 

 About the 10th day of May of last year a Snowy Owl was captured 

 by Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Gerke at Rayland. Ohio. It was taken to 

 Steubenville by R. E. Large and was pronounced a " snow owl " by 

 the Steubenville papers. In order to be sure of its identity I wrote 

 to Mr. Large for a description of the bird. It is an unusually late 

 date for this owl in eastern Ohio. 



Red-tailed Hawk.— I have the names of two farmers who are do- 

 ing all they can to exterminate the Red-tailed Hawk. Both reside 

 about ten miles from Cadiz. One of them caught forty hawks last 

 year, mostl.v Red-tails, by trapping them with dead poultry. I 

 have noticed fewer hawks in this vicinity as a consequence. 



Prothonotary Warbler. — On the morning of May 11, 190S), while 

 in my favorite woods looking for migrants, a yellowish warbler 

 flew directly at me, missing my face by less than a yard. That eve- 

 ning, in the same woods, a yellow streak came swiftly along the 

 line of the rays of the setting sun. passed me at arm's length, and 

 caused me to reflect that it was unusual for the Kentucky W^irbler 

 to behave in that manner, for I judged it to be one of that species. 



