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must leave the immediate vicinity where they were hatched. He finds 

 also that a large proportion of winter Starlings are migrants or visitors 

 from elsewhere. Such data bear directly upon the extent of migration 

 in so called resident birds, such as our Song Sparrow which is present as a 

 species throughout the year over a large part of its range, though there is 

 doubtless a migration of individuals to a greater or less extent. 



The most remarkable case of long flight recorded among the captures of 

 'ringed' birds was that noticed in the ' Ornithologische Monatsberichte' 

 for July-August, of a nestling Gull (Larus ridibundus) banded at Rossitten, 

 Germany, on the east coast of the Baltic Sea, July 18, 1911, and shot in 

 November of the same year near Bridgetown in the island of Barbados! 



Mr. Leo E. Miller, who has been collecting in Colombia for the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, and whose success in discovering the nest 

 of the Cock-of-the-Rock was mentioned in the last issue of 'The Auk', 

 reached New York City on September 9, after eighteen months' continuous 

 field work in the tropics. Mr. Miller brought with him some twenty-three 

 hundred birds and mammals collected since the expedition left Call in the 

 Cauca Valley in February, 1912. A recently completed government road 

 over the eastern Andes enabled Mr. Miller to go from the headwaters of 

 the Magdalena to the headwaters of the Amazon in the Caquetd. territory. 



He is doubtless the first zoological collector to penetrate this region, and 

 during the thirty days which he worked there secured eight hundred birds 

 and mammals; practically none of which were represented in the Museum's 

 previous Colombian collections. 



The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries now has a naturalist on the Pribilof 

 Islands whose duty it is to study not only the fur seals and blue foxes, but 

 all other natural history questions relating to the islands. Exceedingly 

 interesting results are already coming in and we learn from Dr. Barton W. 

 Evermann that in a collection recently received there are specimens repre- 

 senting eighteen species of birds new to the avifauna of the Pribilofs of 

 which four are new to North America. A detailed account of them will 

 appear in the next number of 'The Auk.' 



We learn from 'The Ibis' that Dr. A. J. R. Wollaston sailed May 24, 

 for Borneo where he will prepare for another expedition to New Guinea 

 in conjunction with Mr. C. B. Kloss. They hope to reach the Snowy 

 Range and if possible to ascend Mt. Carstensz 15,964 ft. 



A FITTING tribute to the last ornithological effort of the late Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe — his ' Hand-List of Birds' — is a general index to this work which 

 has been recently issued by the British Museum. This index has been 

 edited bj' Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, while the actual task of amalgamating 

 the indices of the several volumes was accomplished by his assistant, Mr. 

 Thomas Wells. It is interesting to know that a specially prepared copy 



