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in sets was well representative of the United States. His own collecting 

 was done carefully, and his specimens prepared with exceptional neatness. 

 As a field worker Wood was keen, persistent, and tireless; his climbing 

 abilities and fearlessness were remarkable. His knowledge of southern 

 Michigan birds in the field was excelled by no one, and many of the local 

 records are due to his acuteness and familiarity with the notes and habits 

 of all of our birds. I know of no one that prepared a finer bird skin. 



Mr. Wood was not of a bookish or literary nature, and his writings 

 consisted mainly of short notes of a faunal or oological nature. Person- 

 ally he was of a somewhat retiring disposition, and mingled but little 

 with others of kindred interests. He was a trained athlete and a splendid 

 shot. 



He was a prominent member of the now defunct Michigan Ornithological 

 Club, the Wilson Ornithological Club, Cooper Ornithological Club, and an 

 Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union. Mr. Wood's death so 

 early in life is a decided loss to ornithology and to Michigan in particular. 



He is survived by his widow and five children. — B. H. S. 



CoL. Herbert Hastings Harrington, the British ornithologist, noted 

 for his work on the 'Birds of Burma' (1909) and for numerous papers on 

 Indian birds, was killed in the campaign in Mesopotamia on March 8, 

 1916. He was born on January 16, 1868, at Lucknow. His publications 

 appeared mainly in 'The Ibis' and the 'Journal of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society' and many of the new species that he discovered have 

 been named in his honor. 



Lt. Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh, well known as the author of ' The 

 Game Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa ' and of numerous articles in 

 'The Avicultural Magazine' died at his home in Surrey, England, on 

 July 11, 1916, having been invaUded home from France in 1915. Col. 

 Horsbrugh was born at Poona, July 27, 1871. 



A TREATY between the United States and Great Britain for the protection 

 of migratory birds in the United States and the Dominion of Canada was 

 signed on August 16 and ratified by the Senate on August 29, 1916. This 

 treaty, the first ever entered into between the United States and a foreign 

 country for the protection of birds, marks the beginning of a new era in 

 bird protection in America and affects a greater area than any similar 

 treaty ever in force in Europe. Provision is made for the protection of all 

 migratory birds in North America north of the southern border of the 

 United States except in Newfoundland, Labrador and Greenland. 



The treaty includes nine articles. Article I divides migratory birds into 

 game birds, insectivorous birds, and other nongame birds, and adopts the 

 A. O. U. definition of game birds including the five groups, Anatidce 

 Gnddce, RcdlidcB, Limicolce, and Columhidce. In Article II, provision is 

 made for open seasons on game birds not to exceed three months and a half 



