•3^6 Notes and News. \_My 



Occurrence of Bewick's Wren at Grand Rapids,' Leon J. Cole ; ' A Pre- 

 liminary Notice of an Interesting Migration Route,' P. A. Taverner. 



The following officers were elected for 1905-06: President, Walter B. 

 Barrows; Vice-Presidents, A. H. Griffith, James B. Purdy, and J. Claire 

 Wood; Secretary, Alex. W. Blain, Jr. ; Treasurer, Frederick C. Hubel. 

 Editorial Staff of the ' Bulletin ' : Walter B. Barrows, Editor ; P. A. 

 Taverner and Norman A. Wood, Associates. 



The American Ornithologists' Union Committee on the Classification 

 and Nomenclature of North American Birds held a four days' session in 

 April last at the U. S. National Museum in Washington, with all the 

 members present except Mr. Ridgway, who was in Costa Rica. Final 

 action was taken on about one hundred cases, thus disposing of the 

 greater part of those listed for consideration. A number of others were 

 considered, but final action on them was deferred, owing to lack of ma- 

 terial or unexpected complications in questions of nomenclature. These 

 were all assigned to subcommittees, to be reported upon at the next 

 meeting of the Committee. As the greater part of the cases acted upon 

 had previously been considered by subcommittees, thej' were more readily 

 decided than would have been otherwise possible. 



At the conclusion of the session the Committee decided not to issue a 

 report of its decisions in the form of a Supplement to the Check-List, as 

 has been heretofore customary, in view of the fact that a new edition of 

 the Check-List is under consideration for publication in 1906. 



