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The Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge, Mass., is about 

 to publish as No. 2 of its ' Memoirs,' a monograph of the Ipswich 

 Sparrow by Jonathan Dwiglit, Jr., M.D. The memoir will treat the 

 subject exhaustivelj, being based on the existing literature of the sub- 

 ject, supplemented bj the author's extensive field experience of the bird's 

 habits as observed on our own coasts, and bj his researches at Sable 

 Island in 1894, where he had an opportunity of studying its breeding 

 habits and obtained its nests, eggs, and young in first plumage. The 

 paper also includes a pretty full account of Sable Island, its history, 

 fauna, flora, etc., and a very complete bibliography of the Ipswich 

 Sparrow. It will be illustrated with a colored plate, showing the adult 

 breeding male and the young in first plumage. 



A PROSPECTUS from the publishers, Charles H. Sergei Company (358 

 Dearborn St., Chicago), announces the early publication of 'The Pro- 

 ceedings of the World's Congress of Ornithology,' containing the papers 

 read at the World's Congress Auxiliary on Ornithology, held at the 

 Memorial Art Palace of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Oct. 

 18-21, 1S93 (see Auk, X, p. 386, and XI, p. 89). It will form a single 

 octavo volume, prepared under the editorship of Mrs. E. Irene Rood, and 

 the edition will be limited to 600 numbeied and registered copies. Sub- 

 scription price, $5.00 net. Froin the partial list of contents given in the 

 prospectus it is evident that the work will contain many papers of per- 

 manent value, and from contributors of eminent standing. 



It is announced that a General Index to the 18 \()lumes of ' The Ibis,' 

 published from 1877 to 1894, is in course of pre|i;iration, together with a 

 Subject Index to the whole work since its commencement in 1859. In 

 order to provide funds for the large outlay' involved, an appeal has been 

 tnade to the members of the B. O. U. for subscrij^tions to the work, which 

 of course will be of immense convenience to ornithologists the world 

 over. Orders for copies may be sent to F. D. Godman, Esq., 10 Chandos 

 Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. The subscription price is 21 

 shillings per copy. 



Readers of ' The Auk ' will be interested to learn that the second 

 volume of Major Bendire's standard work ' Life Histories of North 

 American Birds' will probably be issued during the coming autumn. Of 

 the text it is unnecessary to speak, but we are glad to be able to state that 

 the plates will be of the same high character as those which distinguished 

 the first volume. 



