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Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, XXV, Heft 1-2, January-April, 1914. 



Ottawa Naturalist, The, XXVIII, Nos. 1-6, April, May, June, July, 

 Aug. and Sept., 1914. 



Philippine Journal of Science, VIII, No. 6, IX, No. 1, December, 1913, 

 and February, 1914. 



Revue Frangaise d'Ornithologie, VI, Nos. 62-63, June and July, 1914. 



Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, Vols. I, II and III, No. 1-2, January- 

 June, 1914. 



Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, Bull. 4, April 16, 1914. 



Science, N. S. XXXIX, Nos. 1017, XL, Nos. 1018-1028. 



Scottish Naturalist, The, Nos. 30-32, June, July and August, 1914. 



South Australian Ornithologist, I, Part 3, July, 1914. 



Verhandlungen der Ornith. Gesellschaft, in Bayern, XII, Heft. 1, 

 May 15, 1914. 



Wilson Bulletin, The, XXVI, No. 2, June, 1914. 



Zoologist, The, (4), XVIII, Nos. 210-212, June, July and August, 1914. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



EcTOPisTEs MiGRATORius, once ouc of the most notable species in the 

 North American avifaima became extinct on September 1, by the death 

 of the last surviving specimen, a female, which had Uved for twenty-nine 

 years in the aviary of the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. It is rarely pos- 

 sible to state the exact date of the extinction of a species as the process 

 is usually a gradual one, but in view of the fruitless efforts extending over 

 the- past ten years to find evidence of the existence of wild Passenger Pigeons 

 we may safely consider the passing of this last captive specimen as the 

 extinction of the species. 



The reduction of this once abundant bird to absolute extermination by 

 man's greed should be a lesson to us all and should stifle all opposition to 

 the efforts now being made by national and state governments in behaK of 

 the conservation of other birds threatened with a like fate. What is a little 

 loss of sport to us compared with the extinction of a wild bu'd species — 

 something that the hand of man can never replace? 



As we glance over the pages of 'The Nuttall Bulletin' and ' The Auk ' we 

 fail to find a satisfactory chronological record of the extermination of this 

 splendid bird. That it had decreased materially was recognized and also 

 that the great flights that darkened the sky were a thing of the past in 

 most parts of the country. Writers were busy explaining why the birds 

 had left their immediate vicinity and speculating as to where they had gone, 



