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different States, such capital to be decided at the previous Annual Meet- 

 ing." In purposes and methods this second ' A. O. U.' is planned on much 

 the same lines as our own A. O. U., and we wish it equal success. 



The Bird Club of Princeton University was organized earlv dur- 

 ing the present year with the following oilicers ; President, William Arthur 

 Babson, B. S.; Vice-Presidents, Edward Wallace Scudder and John Rogers 

 Williams; Secretary-Treasurer, Daniel Minor Rogers; Recorder, Charles 

 Frederic Silvester. Its activity is evinced by the ' Bulletin of the Bird 

 Club of Princeton University,' the first number bearing date September, 

 1901. "Tlie Club will issue further Bulletins at such intervals as the 

 accumulation or importance of original matter may warrant." The first 

 number consists of 82 pages, giving a list of the officers and members of 

 the Club, and an excellent annotated list of the birds of Princeton, as al- 

 ready noted (p. 408). Mr. W. E. D. Scott is editor of the 'Bulletin.' 



Dana Estes and Company of Boston announce in their list of fall 

 publications the long expected new edition of the late Dr. Coues's 'Key 

 to North American Birds.' The work, we understand, had been com- 

 pletely rewritten, and left in readiness for publication by its lamented 

 author, and will contain a large number of wholly new illustrations, made 

 expressly for the work, by Mr. Fuertes. 



An ' Index-volume ' to the ' Zoological Record ' will soon be published, 

 at the subscription price of 15 shillings (10 shillings to subscribers to the 

 'Zoological Record'). The index volume will cover the volumes XVII- 

 XXXVII (1880-1900) of the 'Zoological Record,' and will include not only 

 all of the new generic and subgeneric names, but such names as were 

 omitted in the previous volumes, as well as those omitted from Scudder's 

 well-known ' Nomenclator Zoologicus,' published in 1882. Thus zoolo- 

 gists may have at their disposal (in the ' Nomenclator Zoologicus ' and 

 the new Index together) a complete list of all names of genera and sub- 

 genera used in Zoology up to the end of 1900. The subscription-list will 

 be closed on the ist of December, 1901, but a limited number of copies 

 will be placed on sale at the price of £1 per copy. 



A WORK entitled 'A Manual of the Birds of Iceland,' by the Rev. 

 H. H. Slater, is announced for early publication by David Douglas, 

 10 Castle St., Edinburgh. It will embody the results of Mr. Slater's 

 fifteen vears' observations on the birds of Iceland. The subscription 

 price is 55 net. 



The large collection of birds' eggs, nests and skins brought together by 

 Miss Jean Bell of Ridley Park, Pa., has been purchased by Mr. John 

 Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, New York. It is said to contain about 

 70,000 ecrgs and 1000 nests, and is reported to be one of the finest and 



