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[Dolichonyx oryzivorus), with remarks on colour-change and 

 moulting. The author traverses a statement by Dr. J. A. Allen 

 in Bull. Am. Mas. Nat. Hist. 189G, p. 13, which asserts that in 

 confinement the colour-change in spring is not accompanied 

 by " any increase in feather-loss," and states that in the 

 colouied plate belonging to a paper by Air. F. M. Chapman in 

 'The Auk' for 1893, p. 309, "it was decided to assist Nature 

 by having the ' moult' of the wings and tail completed by the 

 artist/' Dr. Chadbourne makes further observations, which 

 we will not quote. Mr. F. Al. Chapman replies, re])udiating 

 the im[)utation, and there we must leave the parties to this 

 triangular duel. By the way, Mr. Millais's paper in ' The 

 Ibis,' 1896, pp. 451-457, has been disposed of in 'The Auk ' 

 (pp. 109-111) by ''the deadly parallel column." Mr. C. 

 W. Richmond describes ten new species and subspecies of 

 birds obtained by Dr. W. L. Abbott some years ago in the 

 Kilimandjaro district of East Africa. Mr. Anthony has 

 found three new species and subspecies in Lower California; 

 Mr.W. W. Price considers the Pine-Grosbeak from California 

 worthy of subspecifie distinction, and Air. H. C. Oberholser 

 reviews the Alarsh- Wrens {Chtothorus) with the addition of 

 a new subspecies. Dr. Stejneger claims full specific rank 

 for his Cepphus snowi, based on a bird from Raikoke Island, 

 Kurils, Avhich he had previously taken to be a melanistic 

 individual of C. columba. A great featui e of the past winter 

 has been the visitation of Briinnich's Guillemot {Uria bruen- 

 nichi), not only along the coast as far as South Carolina, but 

 also in Indiana, Michigan, and other inland States. 



Dr. Cones requires a paragraph to himself, for he seems 

 to have re-entered upon a period of activity which is sur- 

 prising. He adduces strong evidence that FuUf/uIa collaris 

 (Donovan), described in 1809 from an individual said to 

 have been found in Leadenhall Alarket, had been discovered 

 previously by Lewis and Clarke, near the raoutii of the 

 Columbia River. He proposes a new genus, Dafilula, having 

 for type Querquedula eatoni, Sharpe, from Kerguelen Island. 

 He has satisfied himself that there are three valid sub- 

 divisions in Brent Geese, aiul ]u'oposes to recognize Branta 



