250 ^'otes and News. [^uk^ 



three long voyages on the Earl of Crawford's yacht 'Valhalla.' The 

 author, a well-known ornithologist, describes the bird and animal life of 

 many islands seldom or never before explored. The book will be fully 

 illustrated from photographs of life and scenery. 



The eighteenth annual meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological 

 Club was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, Janu- 

 ary 2, 1908. The Club was never in a more flourishing condition; the 

 membership consists of 17 Active, 68 Associate, and 37 Corresponding 

 Members, while the 'Migration Corps' niunbers 63 observers. 



The officers for the ensuing year are: Wm. A. Shryoch, President; 

 Stewardson Brown Vice-President; Samuel Wright, Treasurer; and 

 Chreswell J. Hunt, 225 N. 53rd St., Philadelphia, Secretary. Thos. 

 D. Keim, 205 Radcliffe St., Bristol, Pa., is in charge of the migration work. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has just secured the 

 Van de Pol Collection of East Indian birds, comprising about 1100 skins, 

 from Java, Bangka, Batu Islands, Temate, and the west coast of Sumatra. 

 These, together with the specimens in the Tristram collection, and the 

 Harrison and Hiller Sumatra collection, and the Porter collection from 

 Luzon, received during the past few years, make the Academy's repre- 

 sentation from this general region remarkably complete. 



Erratum. — By an unfortunate lapsus, the 'erratum' on page 35 of this 

 volume makes 'confusion worse confounded' ! In Volume XXIV, plate 

 xviii, fig. 1, accompanying Mr. A. C. Bent's paper on the 'Summer Birds 

 of Southwestern Saskatchewan,' is wrongly indicated as ' Nests of Western 

 Grebe'; the proper designation is 'Nests of California Gull.' The error, 

 it is needless to say, is not the fault of the author, either on the plate or in 

 the former enatum, but arose from a peculiar combination of circum- 

 stances, for which the editor is mainly responsible. 



