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of Tortuga, Blanquilla, Los Hermanos, Testigos, Margarita, Los Roques, 

 and Orchilla. Many of these islands had not been previously visited by a 

 collector. Eight new species and subspecies of birds were procured, one 

 of which was named by Mr. Cory in his honor, Caereba ferryi. In May 

 and June, 1909, he visited the Quill Lake region, Saskatchewan, for the 

 purpose of securing various species of birds in breeding plumage, with 

 their nests and eggs, for use in the preparation of a series of exhibition 

 groups representing the bird life of that region, in which undertaking he 

 was most successful. His paper on the Summer Birds of Saskatchewan 

 in the present number of ' The Auk ' (pp. 185-204) is based on observations 

 and collections made during this expedition. At the time of his death he 

 was preparing a paper on the birds of Costa Rica, based on his visit to 

 that country in 1908. He was an enthusiastic collector and excelled in 

 field work. His publications in ornithology include papers based on his 

 field work in California, Illinois, Venezuela, and Saskatchewan, as follows: 



1. Ornithological Conditions in Northeastern Illinois, with Notes on 

 Some Winter Birds. Auk, XXIV, April, 1907, pp. 121-129. 



2. Winter Bird Notes from extreme Southern Illinois. Auk, XXIV, 

 July, 1907, pp. 281-286. 



3. Further Notes from extreme Southern Illinois. Auk, XXIV, Oct. 

 1607. pp. 430-435. 



4. Notes from the Diary of a Naturalist in California. Condor, X, 

 pp. 30-44, 1908. 



5. A Month's Bird Collecting in Venezuela, Condor, X, pp. 225-230. 



6. Birds Observed in Saskatchewan during the Summer of 1909. Auk, 

 XXVII, April, 1910, pp. 185-204, pll. x-xii. 



Mr. Cory's recent paper on ' The Birds of the Leeward Islands ' (see Auk, 

 Jan., 1910, pp. 99, 100) was based largely on the material and field notes 

 of Mr. Ferry taken during his two trips (as noted above) to these islands. 



Mr. Ferry was a man of exceedingly attractive personality, warm-hearted 

 and enthusiastic, and had his life been spared he would doubtless have soon 

 attained a position of some eminence in ornithology.' 



The following respecting the Kuser Asiatic Expedition was received 

 too late for use in the January issue of this Journal. 



On December 29, 1909, Mr. C. William Beebe, Curator of Birds in the 

 New York Zoological Park, sailed on the 'Lusitania' for London, accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Beebe. Mr. Bruce Horsfall, artist, followed on a later 

 steamer. After several weeks' study of the pheasants in the British 

 Museum, Mr. Beebe will proceed direct to Ceylon and India, where 

 field studies will be made of the wild pheasants and jungle fowl. The 



1 This notice is based mainly on information kindly supplied by Mr. Charles B. 

 Cory, Curator of Zoology at the Field Natural History Museum, Chicago, and on 

 further details contributed by Mr. R. M. Barnes, of Lacon, 111., who was one of Mr. 

 Ferry's companions on the Saskatchewan trip in 1909. 



