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57. Readers will find in ‘The Condor (Vol. XVI, pp. 202-204, Sept., 1914), 
an interesting sketch of his life by Dr. Louis B. Bishop, with an account of 
his work and a list of his papers. 
On July 28, 1916, the Sociedad Ornithologica del Plata was organized 
at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Roberto Dabbene was chosen president 
of the society and Sr. Pedro Serie, secretary. 
Tue Council and Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, have decreed that the 
new reservoir with its adjacent shores shall be a game preserve with all 
hunting and trapping prohibited. Inasmuch as this reservoir has a sur- 
face area of 2700 acres and is six miles long and in places is over a mile in 
width, is located seventeen miles from the city, and is the largest inland 
body of water in northeastern Ohio, its value as a protected reserve for 
birds can readily be appreciated. 
The municipal authorities of Youngstown are certainly to be congratu- 
lated for their far-sightedness and their understanding of the need for wild 
life protection. We wish more of our cities had officials with the same 
appreciation of such matters. 
Mr. W. DeWirr Miter, Associate Curator of Ornithology in the 
American Museum of Natural History, accompanied by Mr. Ludlow 
Griscom, reached Corinto, Nicaragua, March 10th, on an American Mu- 
seum expedition to acquire a field knowledge of Nicaraguan birds. They 
were met and guided in Nicaragua by Mr. William B. Richardson, a resi- 
dent of that country, who had collected much in tropical America for the 
Museum. Mr. Miller writes under date of May 2nd: ‘We have... . traveled 
hundreds of miles on muleback, done some collecting and made many 
observations of interest. We already have several species new to Nica- 
ragua....including Huphonia elegantissima, previously known both from 
Mexico and from Costa Rica but not between....One of the most inter- 
esting birds we have met is Megaquiscalus nicaraguensis....the most 
abundant bird about the village of Tipitapa. ...Besides skins of o’ and @ 
we have nests, eggs and photographs. This species is confined to these two 
Nicaraguan lakes.’ The party visited as many diverse parts of the country 
as possible, and expected to sail for home about June Ist. 
Mr. W. E. Ciypr Topp headed an expedition to the interior of Labrador 
which left Pittsburgh in May, to collect birds and mammals for the Car- 
negie Museum. 
On April 20, Mr. John Hall Sage, Secretary of the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union was the guest of Dr. A. K. Fisher, at the camp of the Washing- 
ton Biologists’ Field Club, at Plummer’s Island in the Potomac near 
Washington, D. C., where they were joined by sixteen other fellows and 
members of the Union who gathered there in honor of Mr. Sage’s seventieth 
