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and presented to the Academy some fifty to sixty-five years ago. Alttiough 

 an investigator of marked ability in several fields of scientific research, 

 he published almost nothing, but imparted freely his discoveries to others 

 for publication. While his name is thus missing from the list of eminent 

 naturalists, it stands high on the roll of the patrons of science. 



Other papers in the present number of 'Cassinia' are: 'The D. V. O. C. 

 and its Twentieth Anniversary,' by George Spencer Morris ; ' Duck Shoot- 

 ing on the Coast Marshes of New Jersey,' by I. Norris De Haven, with sup- 

 plementary matter by Mr. Stone; 'Cruising through the New Jersey Pine 

 Barrens,' by J. Fletcher Street; 'On the Nesting of the Broad-winged 

 Hawk and Goshawk in Pennsylvania' (with two half-tone plates), by 

 Robert P. Sharpies; 'Breeding Birds of Passaic and Sussex Counties, New 

 Jersey,' by William L. Baily (an annotated list of 94 species); 'Report on 

 the Spring Migration of 1909,' compiled by Witnier Stone; 'Abstract of 

 Proceeding of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 1909'; 'Bibliog- 

 raphy for 1909,' comprising titles of papers relating to the birds of Penn- 

 sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and of other ornithological papers 

 by members of the Club; and a list of the officers and members of the 

 Club. (For further notice of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary 

 of the Club, and a list of the officers of the Club for 1910, officially com- 

 municated, see below under 'Notes and News.') — J. A. A. 



J. Grinnell on the Birds of the Prince William Sound Region, Alaska.' — 



This is a report on the birds collected by Miss Annie M. Alexander's third 

 expedition to Alaska, made in the summer of 1908, the party being com- 

 posed, in addition to Miss Alexander, of Joseph Dixon, Edmund Heller, 

 A. E. Hasselborg, and Miss Louise Kellogg. The material obtained, on 

 which the present report is based, consists of the note-books of the collectors, 

 500 bird skins, ten sets of eggs and a few nests, now in the University of 

 California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, as a gift from Miss Alexander. 

 This report is preceded by a similar one by Mr. Edmund Heller on the 

 mammals, in which the itinerary, collecting stations, and the physiography 

 of the region are described in detail, including the islands in Prince William 

 Sound and the adjoining mainland coast. The life zones represented in 

 this district are the Hudsonian and the Arctic-Alpine. The fauna is nat- 

 urally scanty, the mammals obtained numbering only 16 species, and the 

 birds collected or noted. 89 species, specimens of 86 of which were taken. 



The introduction to Mr. Grinnell's paper on the birds contains a num- 

 bered ' Check-list of the Species Observed,' followed by the very fully anno- 

 tated "general account," a discussion of the composition and origin of the 

 avifauna of the Prince William Sound district, and of "melanism in the 



1 Birds of the 1908 Alexander Alaska Expedition, with a note on the Avifaunal 

 Relationships of the Prince William Sound District. By Joseph Grinnell. Univer- 

 sity of California Publ., Zoology, Vol. V, No. 12, pp. 361-428, pil. xxxii-xxxiv, 9 

 text figures. March 5, 1910. 



