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After a week on the Cauca River at Rio Frio, near Cartago, they crossed 

 the Western Andes to N6vita on the San Juan river and returned to their 

 base at Cali via Buenaventura early in January. Here both men were 

 attacked by fever acquired in the unhealthful Choc6 region, and Mr. 

 Chapman informs us that a start for the headwaters of the Magdalena was 

 necessarily postponed until February. This region was finally reached in 

 April after a trying journey over the Central Andes from Almaguer. 

 Allen suffered so severely from the fever, contracted in the low coast coun- 

 try, that, in May, he was forced to return to the United States leaving 

 Miller to continue the exploration of the zoologically unknown upper 

 Magdalena basin. Under date of May 6, 1912, Miller writes of the rich- 

 ness of this new field and reports that one of the chief desiderata of the 

 expedition has been secured in his discovery of a nesting colony of the 

 Cock-of-the-Rock. No less than seven nests of this species were found, 

 some of which contained eggs, two being a full set while others held 

 young in every stage from those newly hatched to others ready to fiy. 

 This material will enable the American Museum to construct an unusually 

 attractive as well as imique group of a species concerning whose nesting ; 



habits we have hitherto known but little. 



Mr. Martinus Nijhgff, The Hague, Holland, announces an English 

 translation of Penard's 'Birds of Guyana' (Surinam, Cayenne and Deme- 

 rara) to be issued in two volumes consisting of about 1160 pages and 700 

 illustrations. Large 8vo, cloth. The price for the first hundred subscribers 

 will be two guineas net. As soon as this number is reached printing will 

 be commenced and the price raised to £3. 3 net. 



Ardea, Journal of the Netherlands Ornithological Society, is the title I 



of a new Ornithological Journal published at The Hague and dealing 

 with the birds of the Netherlands and their colonies. The first number 

 is dated April, 1912. It is published in Dutch. 



The Local Committee for the thirtieth stated meeting of the American j 



Ornithologists' Union announces that the second week of November has 

 been selected as the time of the meeting. The public sessions will therefore 

 be held at Cambridge, Mass., on November 12, 13 and 14, 1912. 



