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The Oologist. Vol. XXX. No. 12. December 15, 1913. 



Two Months in the Everglades. By O. E. Baynard. 



Preliminary List of Water Birds of the Middle Delaware Valley, A Cor- 

 rection. By R. F. Miller. — Records queried in these columns are admitted 

 to be without foundation and the list " purposely written to excite the 

 professional ornithologists to adverse criticism"! 'The Oologist' can 

 hardly afford to publish such articles. 



The Oologist. Vol. XXXI. No. 1. January 15, 1914. 



Bachman's Sparrow, A Summer Resident in Southern Pennsylvania. 

 By S. S. Dickey. — Several birds found and watched in the extreme south- 

 western corner of Pennsylvania. Unfortunately they were not positively 

 identified. 



The Oologist. Vol. XXXI. No. 2. February 15, 1914. 



Nesting of the Northern Raven in Pennsylvania. By S. S. Dickey. 



The Ibis. X Series. Vol. II. No. 1. January, 1914. 



Notes on the Nidification of some Birds from Burma. By H. H. Harring- 

 ton. — On some 40 species the nesting of which is not mentioned in Hume's 

 ' Nests and Eggs.' A colored plate contains figures of many of the eggs. 



Notes on Birds observed in Katanga, Belgian Congo. By L. Beresford 

 Mouritz. 



An Ornithological Expedition to the Eastern Canary Islands. By 

 David A. Bannerman. — The first installment of this extended report on 

 the results of Mr. Bannerman's expedition, May-June, 1913, to the islands 

 of Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Allegranza, Graciosa and Montana Clara. 

 Excellent views of the scenery and color plates of Hoematopus 7nger mcade- 

 waldoi and Saxicola dacotioe murielce are given. 



A List of the Birds of Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia. 

 By Gregory M. Mathews. — An Annotated hst of 167 species, observed 

 apparently on an expedition undertaken in 1911-12, although there is no 

 statement on this point or as to who collected the specimens and made the 

 field notes ! 



Obituaries. — Alfred Russell Wallace, Richard John Ussher, WiUiam 

 John Ansorge, Ora WilUs Knight and Anton Fritsch. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CXCII. Novem- 

 ber 27, 1913. 



Chairman's address on the progress of ornithology. 



Mr. Bannerman described his trip to the Canaries. 



H. H. Harrington described as new Proparus ripponi, Burma; Stachyris 

 nigriceps coUarti, Margherita; Ixulus flavicollis harterti, Burma; Siva 

 cyanuroptera oatsi, Byingyi Mt.; Alcippe fratercula yunnanensis, Mts. of 

 Yunnan. 



W. R. Ogilvie-Grant called attention to the fact that young starhngs 

 from the Shetland and Orkney Islands were sooty black instead of brown. 

 He also exhibited Clang^ila islandica from Iceland in ecUpse plumage. 



Hon. W. Rothschild discussed the genus Bradyornis, describing as new 

 B. pallidus sharpei from Abyssinia { = B. pallida auct. nee Miiller). He 

 also described Casuarius foersteri sp. n., S. E. New Guinea. 



