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over one hundred in number. The first part is announced to appear in 

 December, 1907, and the other parts during the year 1908. The publishers 

 are Witherby & Co., 326 High Holborn, London. Subscription price, £2 

 5s. per part, or £10 10s. for the whole work if paid for in advance. 



A BOOK on the 'Hawks of North America' is in preparation by Prof. 

 Lynds Jones and Rev. W. F. Heninger, of Oberlin, Ohio. "Although 

 scientific in character, special stress will be put upon the diagnostic marks 

 for the field student." Each species will be illustrated by photographs of 

 head, tail, wing, and claws. Contributions on habits, distribution, etc., 

 from bird students throughout America, especially on the rarer species, 

 will be greatly appreciated and due credit given for them by the authors. 



'The Home-life of some Marsh-Birds,' photographed and described by 

 Emma L. Turner, F. L. S., and P. H. Bahr, B. A., M. B. O. U., is annovmced 

 by Witherby & Co., 326 High Holborn, London. It will contain 32 full- 

 page plates. 61 pages of letterpress, descriptive of the points of interest, 

 and many text illustrations. Demy 8vo, price, 2s. 6d. net. 



A WORK on the 'Birds of Britain,' by J. Lewis Bonhote, M. A., F. L. S., 

 F. Z, S., is announced by Adam and Charles Black, Soho Square, London, 

 to be illustrated by 100 full-page illustrations in color selected by H. E. 

 Dresser from his ' Birds of Europe,' of which they are to be facsimile repro- 

 ductions. Price 20s. net (post free 20/6). The volume is written in popu- 

 lar style by a well-known ornithologist, and will have a complete account 

 of every species one is likely to meet with in Great Britain. 



The twelfth annual meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society was 

 held in the rooms of the Portland Society of Natural History, Elm St., 

 Portland, Maine, Nov. 29-30, 1907. The officers present were: President, 

 Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Brunswick; Secretary-Treasurer, J. Merton Swain, 

 Farmington; Editor, W. H. Brownson, Portland; Councillor, Capt. H. L. 

 Spinney, Bath; Councilor, Prof. Ora W. Knight, Bangor. There were 

 about twenty-five other active members present, and two corresponding 

 members, Hon. Thos. J. Emery, of the Harvard Law School, and Sher- 

 man E. Phillips of Canterbury, N. H. The officers, as given above, were 

 reelected for the third term. 



The next annual meeting will probably be held in Brunswick, the Friday 

 and Saturday following Thanksgiving, 1908. Many scientific papers and 

 talks were listened to with a great deal of interest. Among them were the 

 following: 'The Terns of Bluff Island,' by W. H. Bfownson; 'The Decrease 

 of Eagles in The Kennebec Valley,' by Capt. H. L. Spinney (for fourteen 

 years Keeper of Seguin Island Light); 'The Economic Value of Birds,' 

 by Prof. E. F. Hitchings (Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture 

 of Maine; 'Destruction of Birds during a Severe Storm in April, 1907,' 

 by Miss Marshall; 'Birds observed along the Highway,' by J. Merton 



