110 Notes and News. [Jan. 



University of Michigan. Cornell University, which for several years has 

 given credit for ornithology in undergraduate work, now includes bird work 

 in graduate courses leading to the degree of M. S. and Ph.D., has estab- 

 lished a course of instruction in game breeding, and at the recent session 

 of the legislature secured an appropriation of $15,000 for a game farm to be 

 administered along educational and experimental lines. 



Legislation. Among the 250 or more game laws enacted in the United 

 States in 1917 by the various state legislatures are many that affect birds. 

 A strong tendency has been manifested to suspend the shooting of certain 

 game birds for several years. The Sage Grouse has been protected at 

 all seasons in about half of its present range and similar protection has 

 been given Prairie Chickens in Idaho, Iowa, and Oklahoma; Quail in 

 Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio; Woodcock in eight states in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley; and all shore birds except Jacksnipe in California. Stringent 

 plumage laws in Oklahoma now forbid the sale of aigrettes and in Cali- 

 fornia prohibit traffic in aigrettes, Birds of Paradise, Goura Pigeons and 

 Numidi. A general effort has been made to bring the state laws into con- 

 formity with the Federal migratory bird regulations and in twenty-one 

 states the open seasons on waterfowl are now practically uniform with 

 the Federal seasons. This has resulted in general prohibition of spring 

 shooting. A law to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty protecting 

 migratory birds, ratified last year, has been passed by Canada and a 

 similar enabling act to carry the treaty into effect in the United States 

 has passed the Senate and is now awaiting action by the House of Repre- 

 sentatives at the present session of Congress. — T. S. P. 



The List of Fellows of the A. O. U. — The election of Percy A. 

 Taverner to fill the only vacancy in the list of Fellows at the recent meeting 

 of the Union recalls the fact that although the number of Fellows has 

 always been restricted to fifty, the limit has been reached on only two pre- 

 vious occasions and in each case a full list was maintained little more than a 

 year. The list was first filled at the 7th Congress in 1889 by the election 

 of Dr. A. P. Chadbourne, and sixteen months later, on March 10, 1891, a 

 vacancy occurred through the death of Col. N. S. Goss. Twenty-three 

 years later the limit was again reached in 1914, but the death of Dr. D. 

 G. Elliot on Dec. 22, 1915, caused a vacancy and three others occurred 

 before the next meeting in 1916. 



The total number of Active Members or Fellows elected during the thirty- 

 four years of the existence of the Union is apparently eighty-three. In 

 addition to the fifty names now on the list of Fellows, are seventeen on the 

 Deceased list, four placed on the Retired list (two now deceased), five 

 transferred to the Corresponding list (four now deceased), and seven names 

 of persons who either failed to qualify or retained their membership only 

 a few years. Those transferred to the Corresponding list include: Mon- 

 tague Chamberlain, a Founder, 1901; Dr. D. Webster Prentiss, deceased, 

 a Founder, transferred in 1895; Dr. J. G. Cooper, deceased, elected in 188& 



