' 1916 J Notes and News. 461 



in length between September 1 and March 10, except that the seasons on 

 Limicolcc in the Maritime Provinces of Canada and in the States on the 

 Atlantic seaboard north of Chesapeake Bay may be fixed between August 

 15 and February 1. There is no open season for insectivorous birds. 

 Indians and Eskimos are permitted to take auks, guillemots, murres, 

 puffins and their eggs for food or their skins for clothing. Article III 

 provides a ten-year close season for band-tailed pigeons, cranes, swans, 

 curlew and all the smaller shorebirds, and Article IV, special protection 

 for the wood-duck and eider duck either by a five-year close season, by 

 establishment of refuges, or otherwise. Article V permits the taking of 

 nests and eggs for scientific and propagating purposes under such regula- 

 tions as the respective governments may deem appropriate and the issue 

 of these permits by the proper authorities is provided in Article VII. 

 Article VI prohibits international traffic in migratory birds or their eggs 

 during the continuance of the close season and requires all packages con- 

 taining birds or eggs to be properly marked with the name of the shipper 

 and a statement of the contents. Articles VIII and IX provide that the 

 respective governments shall take the necessary measures to insure the 

 execution of the treaty, which shall continue in force for fifteen years and 

 then from year to year unless either party gives notice of its intention of 

 terminating its operation. 



The treaty will become effective as soon as ratifications are exchanged 

 and a bill to carry out its provisions will be introduced at the next session 

 of Congress.— T. S. P. 



From the Annual Report of the director of the Carnegie Museum of 

 Pittsburgh we learn that the collection of birds now numbers 51,989 speci- 

 mens, representing approximately 5000 species. A restoration of the Dodo 

 and Great Auk have recently been acquired from Rowland Ward, the former 

 of which is figured in the ' Founders Day Report ' of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion. 



As previously announced the thirty-fourth stated meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union will be held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 in Philadelphia, November 14-16, with a business meeting of Fellows and 

 ]\Iembers on the 13th. 



While the leading ornithologists of the country and a constantly increas- 

 ing number of Associates are regular attendants at these meetings, there 

 are a large uumber who read the annual notices in a purely perfunctory 

 manner without considering seriously the possibility of attending. It is 

 this class — those who have never attended a meeting — that we would 

 earnestly urge to make their plans at once for being present at Philadelphia 

 on November 14. 



The program is always interesting and instructive; but it is the informal 

 social intercourse with ornithologists from all parts of the country that 

 counts for more in broadening our views, suggesting fields of work and 



