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The. Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club was 

 held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on January 3, 1895. 

 During the past year sixteen meetings were held, with an average atten- 

 dance of seventeen, showing an increased interest in the work of the club. 

 Among the more interesting communications during the year were 

 ' Summer Birds of the Pocono Mountain,' Witmer Stone and Wm. A. 

 Shryock ; ' Breeding Habits of the Snow Bunting,' Dr. Wm. E. Hughes ; 

 ' Some Bird Experiences in the South,' Wm. J. Serrill ; ' Bird-life on 

 Vancouver Island,' G. S. Morris; 'Birds of Pike County, Pa.,' S. N. 

 Rhoads; 'The Effects of Poke-berries on Birds,' Dr. W. E. Rotzell; 

 ' Summer Birds of Elk County, Pa.,' Wm. L. Baily ; and ' Ducking on the 

 Susquehanna Flats,' I. N. DeHaven. In December the Club issued its 

 work on the ' Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey ' (see antea, 

 p. 170) prepared by Mr. Witmer Stone. It is the intention to publish 

 supplements to this volume every few years, and the author will be glad 

 to receive corrections or additions from any one who may be able to 

 furnish them. 



The officers elected to serve for the ensuing year are President, Dr. 

 William E. Hughes; Secretary, Charles J. Rhoads; Treasurer, William L. 

 Baily. 



'The Nidiologist,' formerly published at Alameda, Cal., will hereafter^ 

 be issued at No. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Mr. H. R. Taylor, the 

 editor and publisher, having permanently removed to the above address. 

 We trust the new environment will prove congenial, and that the success 

 that has hitherto attended 'The Nidiologist' will be augmented by the 

 new change of base. 



Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, whose charming bird-studies have done 

 so much to popularize ornithology, adds to the good work accomplished 

 by her pen by giving series of talks on the habits of our commoner birds. 

 The large attendance at her last course, delivered at the Hotel Waldorf, 

 New York City, is evidence of the success of her undertaking. 



Macmillan and Co., of this city, announce, as nearly ready for pub- 

 lication, a novel departure in bird books for field use, under the title 

 'Bird-craft,' by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, author of 'The Friendship of 

 Nature' (see Auk, XI, p. 314). The text will give non-technical descrip- 

 tions and biographies of about 200 species of the Song, Game, and Water 

 Birds of the Eastern and Middle States, with keys especially intended for 

 the easy identification of birds in life. It will contain a number of intro- 

 ductory chapters of a general character, and be illustrated with colored 

 plates by a new process. 



Correction. In the January number of ' The Auk ' (Vol. XII, pp. 87- 

 89), the article entitled ' Notes on the Summer Birds of Central Berkshire 

 County, Mass.,' was inadvertently attributed to Mr. Francis H. Allen. It 

 was contributed by Mr. Ralph Hoffmann, to whom it should be credited. 



