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Part V of Ridgway's ' Birds of North and Middle America ' appeared 

 on November 29. Part VI we learn is well under way and partly in type. 

 The whole will now probably run into nine volumes instead of eight as 

 originally estimated. 



Dr. Edgar A. Mearns sailed on October 28 for London to join Mr. 

 Childs Frick on an expedition to Abyssinia and Lake Rudolf. The mem- 

 bers of the expedition will include, besides Dr. Mearns, Mr. Childs Frick, 

 son of Mr. Henry C. Frick of Pittsburgh; Mr. Bhck, a friend of Mr. C. 

 Frick, and a physician. The country it is planned to explore will be 

 primarily Abyssinia, but the trip will be extended into British East Africa, 

 and include the region about Lake Rudolf. It is intended to make as 

 complete a collection as possible of the mammals and birds of the regions 

 visited. Dr. Mearns giving his attention to the birds and small mammals, 

 which will go to the National Museum. The country it is proposed to 

 traverse will be mainly outside of that visited by the Roosevelt expedition, 

 thus enabling Dr. Mearns to become personally familiar with areas having 

 an important relation to the faunas he has already studied in other parts 

 of Africa. The new material thus obtained will supplement in an import- 

 ant way that already acquired from the African region by the National 

 Museum, and be of great importance in working out the collections gath- 

 ered by the Roosevelt expedition. As both Messrs. Frick and Blick, as 

 well as Dr. Mearns, have had previous experience in African wilds, import- 

 ant results may be expected from their present extended expedition. 



Witherby and Company, London, announce the early publication of 

 ' A History of the Birds of Colorado ' by William Lutley Sclater, lately 

 director of the Colorado College Museum. The volume is to consist of 

 500 pages and 16 full -page plates from photographs, and the edition will be 

 limited to 550 copies. Subscription price for the United States, $5. 



The prospectus states that the avifauna of the State has never been 

 hitherto adequately dealt with, and in the present volume an attempt 

 has been made to give (1) Short descriptions and keys of all the birds, 

 some 392 in number, hitherto recorded from the State. (2) An account 

 of the distribution of each bird without and within the State. (3) A short 

 notice of its habits, and (4) A list of references to its occurrence in the 

 bird literature of Colorado. 



American ornithologists will look forward with much interest to the 

 appearance of Mr. Sclater's volume. 



Bird-Lore for December closes the thirteenth volume of this magazine, 

 which contains almost twice as many pages as Volume I. This increase 

 in size is, in part, due to the natural growth of the magazine, and in part 

 to the publication in it of the Annual Report of the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies, which occupies about one half of the present issue. 



