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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Jean Louis Cabanis, an Honorary Fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, died February 20, 1906, in the ninetieth year of his age. 

 One of his earliest papers, and perhaps his most important single contri- 

 bution to ornithology, appeared in 1847, entitled 'Ornithologischen Noti- 

 zen' (Arch. f. Naturg., 1847, pp. 186-256, 308-352), in which he proposed 

 a new classification of birds, which in many respects was a great improve- 

 ment upon previous schemes, being based on a number of characters here 

 for the first time given prominence. His system was soon after given 

 fuller expression in the 'Museum Heineanum,' published in parts, beginning 

 in 1850. He was also the author of the ornithological parts of Tschudi's 

 'Fauna Peruana' (1845-46), and of Schomburgk's 'Reisen in Britisch- 

 Guiana* (1848). In 1853 he established the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie,' 

 which he edited for forty years, being succeeded in this function in 1894 

 by his son-in-law, Dr. A. Reichenow. His ornithological papers number 

 several hundred, and include the birds of all countries. For many years 

 he was custodian of the zoological collections of the University Museum, 

 Berlin, and general secretary of the German Ornithological Society. 



Dr. Paul Leverkuhn, a Corresponding Fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, died suddenly of pneumonia at Sophia, Bulgaria, Decem- 

 ber 5, 1905, in the thirty-ninth year of his age. He was private secretary 

 to his Royal Highness the Prince of Bulgaria, and director of his Scientific 

 Institutions and Library. He was the author of a large number of orni- 

 thological papers, many of them bibliographical and biographical. Among 

 the latter may be mentioned his biography of the three Naumanns in the 

 first volume of the new edition of Naumann's ' Vogel Deutschlands,' later 

 issued separately. 



The A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature and Classification of North 

 American Birds held a four days' session in Washington in January last. 

 Besides acting on many of the cases before it, and referring those left un- 

 decided to subcommittees for further investigation, it decided on the 

 character of the proposed third edition of the Check-List, and apportioned 

 the work of its preparation among the different members of the Committee. 

 The Committee on Revision of the Code also held several meetings in 

 January, and submitted a preliminary report to the Council, which, after 

 some discussion, was referred back to the Committee for completion, with 

 the understanding that its final report will come up for action at the meet- 

 ing of the Council to be held in Washington in November next, in con- 

 nection with the annual Congress of the Union, 



