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and there is extended critical comment on a considerable number of 

 others. Mr. Stone finds that a majority of the species appear to range 

 "from the lower Malay Peninsula throughout Sumatra and many \w\h 

 Java without material differentiation ; and a comparison of the combined 

 lists from Deli, in the northwestern extremity of the island, with those 

 from Lampong, in the southeastern corner, show that the majority of the 

 species occur at both points. In fact, the high mountains of the south- 

 central part of Sumatra seem to be the only region when a conspicuously 

 different avifauna exists. The materials are, however, far too limited to 

 warrant any positive statements on the matter." — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Birds from Norton Sound.i — In June, 1900, Mr. Mc- 

 Gregor made a trip to Norton Sound, Alaska, on the U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey steamer 'Pathfinder,' where he spent the season, from June 

 27 to September 25. Altliough for the most part engaged in other work, 

 he secured a collection of about two h"undred bird skins, which, with his 

 field observations, form the basis of the present paper, comprising a 

 list of 63 species, with important and in some cases quite extended field 

 notes. The paper is a most welcome and very interesting contribution to 

 our knowledge of the summer bird life of the region bordering Norton 

 Sound. — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Philippine Birds. — The first number of a new publication 

 entitled 'Bulletins of the Philippine Museum ' consists of a paper by Mr. 

 Richard C. McGregor, "giving the more important results of four collect- 

 ing trips to various islands of the Philippine group. In these notes are 

 recorded seven species new to the Philippine Islands, including a new Chi- 

 bia from Cuyo Island ; descriptions of previously undescribed plumages 

 of four species ; notes on some of the rarer species ; and a list of new 

 localities for a large number of previously known species, recorded for 

 the first time from the various islands mentioned in the title of the paper, 

 including nearly one hinidred species from Ticao, where some three 

 months were spent. 



From an explanatory note in No. II of the 'Bulletins,' which gives a 

 list of Philippine bird skins offered in exchange for first-class bird skins 

 from "Borneo, the Moluccas, Formosa, and the Asiatic coast region adja- 

 cent to the Philippines," we learn : " The Philippine Commission has 

 passed an act providing for the establishment of a Museum of Ethnology, 

 Natural History, and Commerce, and has made a preliminary appropri- 



1 A list of Birds Collected in Norton Sound, Alaska, By Richard C. 

 McGregor. The Condor, Vol. IV, 1902, pp. 135-144, 



^ On Birds from Luzon, Mindoro, Masbate, Ticao, Cuyo, Culion, Caga}an 

 Sulu, and Palawan. By Richard C. McGregor. Bulletins of the Philippiie 

 Museum, I, Jan. 10, 1903. pp. 1-12. 



