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editorial functions, but no attempt will be made to fill gaps in the life 

 histories or in any general sense to bring Audubon up to date. At the 

 end of the fourth volume there will be a complete bibliography of Au- 

 dubon's works. 



The work will contain over twentj-two hundred pages. The volumes 

 will be tastefully bound in cloth, and the price to persons subscribing 

 before publication Avill be $8.00, net, for the set of four volumes. The 

 publication price will be $io.oo, net. 



The initial number (Vol. I. No. i) of 'The Emu, Official Organ of the 

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union,' bears date October, 1901. Its first 

 article is an account of ' The Australasian Ornithologists' Union,' giving 

 a history of its origin, discussing the work before it, and the name of its 

 journal, ' The Emu,' giving reasons for the orthography adopted, as against 

 ' Emeu,' etc. The first number, of 32 pages, contains a variety of short 

 papers and notes, reviews, and extracts from other magazines relating to 

 Australasian ornithology. The ' Aust. O. U.' has plenty of work and a 

 free field before it, and is not lacking in vigorous workers in its ranks. 

 It recognizes in Bird Protection a great task, and it is planning aggressive 

 and prompt action. The office-bearers are : President, Colonel W. V. 

 Legge; Vice-Presidents, C. W. De Vis and A. Zeitz; Hon. Treasurer, Rob- 

 ert Hall; Hon. Secretary, D. LeSouef; Hon. Editors of 'The Emu,' A. J. 

 Campbell and H. Kendall. 



The Executive Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union invites 

 subscriptions for the publication of 'The Birds of Yorkshire, an Account 

 of the Avifauna of the County,' by Mr. Thomas H. Nelson. It will be 

 based on an exceptionally complete mass of material, both published and 

 unpublished, and will include "succinct accounts of the distribution, faun- 

 istic status, migration, nidification, variation, vernacular nomenclature 

 and folk-lore" of each species, with illustrations of " noted bird-sites or 

 haunts." The subscription price is one guinea. Orders may be addressed 

 to the Hon. Secretaries, Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 259 Hyde Park 

 Road, Leeds, England. 



Beginning with the February number Mr. Herbert K. Job will publish 

 in 'Everybody's Magazine' a series of articles upon Raptores and Water 

 Birds, based on his own observations, and profusely illustrated from the 

 photographs shown by him at the last two meetings of the A. O. U. 



