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The cost of a round-trip ticket will be a single fare from the starting 

 point to Chicago, plus $50.00; to which should be added $6.50 for the 

 round trip to the Grand Canon, making a total of $74.50 for the round- 

 trip ticket from New York. 



The tickets for the round trip are good from Maj 2 to July 15, and the 

 return trip may be made over any route the holder may be pleased to 

 select, with an additional charge of $11.50 if the return is made by way 

 of Portland or Seattle, over either of the northern roads. The plan is to 

 go as a single party, then disband and return as the various members may 

 elect, as regards date and route. With the unrestricted stop-over privi- 

 leges granted by the railroads, members have the opportunity of devoting 

 most of the ten weeks available for the trip to sight-seeing or in ornitho- 

 logical field work at such points as they desire especially to select. 



The number of applications for enrollment for the trip thus far received 

 seems to render it certain that the plan of holding a special spring meet- 

 ing in California is an assured success. Detailed information regarding 

 the trip may be obtained from Mr. John A. Sage, Portland, Conn., to 

 whom all communications should be addressed. 



Mr. William Dutcher, in his annual report as Chairman of tlie A. 

 O. U. Committee for the Protection of North American Birds, published 

 in the last number of ' The Auk,' showed (see map, pi. Ill i) that 16 States 

 had adopted the A. O. U. 'model law,' and 15 others were enumerated 

 which were without such a law, and respecting which the Committee 

 "proposed to make an active effort" to obtain its enactment during the 

 then approaching legislative season. It is a subject of congratulation to 

 all bird lovers that prior to March 20 the A. O. U. model law had been 

 adopted by the legislatures of North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, and 

 Washington, and had been favorably reported, or passed through one 

 branch, in the legislatures of Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Texas, and 

 Virginia. Mr. Dutcher is to be especially congratulated on the excellent 

 results thus far accomplished during the present year, since much of this 

 success is due to his unremitting efforts in this good cause. 



The American Museum of Natural History in New York city 

 began some fifteen years ago to place on exhibition a series of bird 

 groups illustrating the bird life of eastern North America, since which 

 time between 50 and 60 groups have been placed in its exhibition halls. 

 These include a wide range of types, illustrating most of the families of 



^ Unfortunately in ' making up ' the January issue the two maps accompan- 

 ing Mr. Ducher's report were transposed as to position and number; to accord 

 with the references in the text Plate III should be numbered Plate IV, and 

 Plate IV should be plate HI, and their location in the text correspondingly 

 changed. The titles at the bottom of the plates are, however, correct, so 

 that no serious confusion need result. 



