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lot of birds, received from Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., collected in May and 

 June, 1898, at various localities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 

 Colombia, at altitudes ranging from 5000 to 8000 feet. The collection 

 numbers about 300 specimens, representing 66 species and subspecies, of 

 which 8, and one genus, are described as new, as follows : Neocrex colom- 

 bianus, Aulacorhamphus lautus, Leucuria (gen. nov.) pkalerata, Elcenia 

 sororia, Grallaria spa tint or, Spinas spinesceus capita neus, Diglossa nocti- 

 color, Merula phceopyga minuscula, M. gigas cacozcla. The new Hum 

 mingbird {Leucuria phalerata), remarkable for its pure white tail, is 

 related to Helianthea and He.mistephania / a colored figure of it will be 

 given in a future number of this journal. — J. A. A. 



Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. — The 'Proceed- 

 ings' of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1S97 (1S98) contains (pp. 

 175-207) several short ornithological papers, as follows: (1) 'Some Indi- 

 ana Crow Roosts,' by A. W. Butler (pp. 175-178), enumerating 13 roosts, 

 with a population varying from a few thousands to tens of thousands 

 each, while one roost was estimated to contain " one bundled thousand 

 Crows." (2) '.Notes on Crow Roosts of Western Indiana and Eastern 

 Illinois," by John S. Wright (pp. 178-180), — brief notes on six or eight 

 roosts. (3) ' Briinnich's Guillemot (Uria lo»ivia~) an Addition to the 

 Birds of Indiana,' by A. W. Butler (pp. 180-1S3), — previously published, 

 in substance, in ' The Auk' (XIV, April, 1897, pp. 197-199)- (4) Notes 

 on the Birds observed in the vicinity of Richmond, Wayne County, 

 Indiana,' by Alden H. Hadley (pp. 183-19S), — an annotated list of 137 

 species. (5) 'Notes on Indiana Heronries,' by A. W. Butler (pp. 198-201). 

 This is an attempt to enumerate all the heronries at present or formerly 

 existing in Indiana. Evidence is given of the former breeding of the 

 American Egret (Ardea cgretta) in some numbers in the Kankakee 

 Marshes in northern Indiana, as well as at various points in the lower 

 Wabash Valley. The inference is drawn that the few birds of this species 

 noted in the central and northern parts of the State after the breeding 

 season are not stragglers from the southward, as formerly supposed, but 

 migrants on their way south from breeding stations in the northern part 

 of the State. (6) 'The Recent occurrence of the Raven in Indiana,' by 

 A. W. Butler (pp. 201, 202). Reported as breeding as late as 1S94 at 

 Raven's Rock, in Martin and Dubois Counties, and as recently occurring 

 in winter in the northeastern part of the State. (7) ' An Instance of Bird 

 Ferocity,' by Glenn Culbertson (pp. 206, 207). A Loggerhead Shrike 

 observed impaling a Sparrow Hawk on the thorns of an osage orange tree. — 

 J. A. A. 



Recent Papers on the Great Auk. — Under the title 'The Orcadian 

 Home of the Garefowl,' Prof. Newton in 'The Ibis' for October describes a 

 visit to the Holm of Papa Westray, the breeding place of the species 



