460 Noies and Nezvs. \^ 



the sending of Mr. N. A. Wood, the taxidermist of the Museum, to make 

 a thorough search for the nest and eggs of this rare species. The quest 

 was successful, Mr. Wood securing "two nests with young and one egg, 

 thus establishing beyond question the breeding area of this species," 

 which had been heretofore wholly a matter of conjecture. 



According to a recently published report (P. Z. S., 1902, pp. 166-171) 

 by the Secretary of the London Zoological Society, there were living in 

 the Society's Gardens, in January, 1902, 147 specimens of Parrots, refer- 

 able to 107 species, including several of great rarity. The oldest bird in 

 the Parrot-house was a Cockatoo (Cacatua gymnopis), which had been 

 in the Society's possession for 33 years. The report is accompanied by 

 a colored plate of Rclectus ivestertnantii, showing the green male and the 

 red, blue-breasted female, and also a plate of the rare Platycercus master- 

 siantis. 



'Our Animal Friends,' with the first number of Volume XXXI, 

 appears in a new form and certainly has a very ' up to date ' appearance. 

 Its opening editorial presents "a retrospective glance at the progress of 

 the work of animal protection during the past thirty years," briefly con- 

 trasting 710W with t/icfi. The change, as is stated, is due to education, in 

 which the management of this inagazine has taken so prominent a part. 

 "The public conscience no longer tolerates cruelty, and to prove the fact 

 of cruelty, however influentially supported, brings public opinion, in its 

 ultimate form of legal enactment, when that is necessarj-, to the vindica- 

 tion of the rights of the weak against the inhumanity of the strong and 

 the thoughtless." ' Our Animal Friends ' has our highest respect and our 

 best wishes, and we trust that its future career will be as influential and 

 as successful in this great cause as it has been in the past. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads is preparing a paper, to be presented at the next 

 meeting of the A. O. U., to be held in Philadelphia in November, on the 

 zoology of Delaware, with special reference to birds, and would be very 

 glad to receive information — lists and specimens — bearing on the sub- 

 ject. Any assistance thus rendered will be duly accredited. Mr. Rhoads's 

 present address is 121 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



