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efforts to interest their pupils in birds, and seems especially worthy of 

 comnieiulution. We would suggest, however, that the publishers would 

 do well to supply a table of contents with each number, to facilitate 

 reference to the plates and articles. 



Wf. have before us No. 1 of Volume I of the • Bulletin of the Michigan 

 Ornitiiological Club,' published at Grand Rapids, Mich., "in the inter- 

 ests of Ornithology in Michigan." The Editor-in-Chief is L. Whitney 

 Watkins, Manchester, Mich. The ' Bulletin ' is to be published quarterly, 

 and will doubtless prove a great stimulus to ornithological activity in Mich- 

 igan and adjoining States. The Club, of which it is the official organ, 

 has also taken a strong stand in favor of the strict enforcement of the 

 game and fish laws of the State, and for the protection of birds. This 

 first number of the Bulletin is in every way a credit to the Michigan 

 Ornithological Club, and indicates earnestness and ability on the part of 

 its membeis. 



' Tmk Zoologist,' in entering upon its Fourth Series, passes under 

 the editorial management of Mr. W. L. Distant, Mr. J. E. Harting, who 

 has edited the magazine so ably for the last twenty years, being obliged 

 to retire on account of the pressure of other demands upon his time. 

 While the typographic appearance of its pages remains for the most part 

 unchanged, its long familiar exterior has given place to a pictorial, antl 

 perhaps more artistic cover, differing radically in color and make-up from 

 that to which we have so long been accustomed. The scope of the Maga- 

 zine is extended to include anthropology, at least so far as it relates to 

 ' Early Man in Britain.' The oflicial reports of Natural History Societies, 

 however, will be omitted. The new editor trusts that the pages of ' The 

 Zooloo-ist' may still " be filled with facts and conclusions, whilst contro- 

 versy and hypercriticism may thus be crowded out." Under its new 

 editorial management we trust the journal will continue to achieve the 

 success that its sterling merit in the past has gained for it. 



The first fasciculus of a new Italian quarto journal of ornithology — 

 ' Avicula, Giornale ornitologico italiana ' — bears date Feb. i, 1897. As 

 its name indicates, it is to be devoted especially to Italian ornithology. 

 The first number, consisting of 28 pages, begins the publication of a list 

 of livin"' ornithologists. Among the ' Notiziario ' we are pleased to see 

 the announcement*of the formation of a society at Trieste for the protec- 

 tion of birds. In no country, perhaps, is there a greater need for such 

 societies than in Italy. The journal is published at Siena, under the 

 editorship of Sigismondo Brogi, with whom are associated as honorary 

 editors Professor Enrico Hillyer Giglioli and Count Toniniaso Salvadori, 

 and numerous 'collaborators.' 



A PKusPECTL's of a work entitled ' The Birds of Celebes and the 

 Nei'^hboring Islands,' by A. B. M^yer and L. W. Wiglesworth, has 



