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bowii readers, may be glad to know that record sheets such as are de- 

 scribed by Mr. Batchelder in this number of 'The Auk' (antea p. 218), can 

 be obtained at a small price from Mr. F. B. Webster, 409 Washington St., 

 Boston. Each set is arranged for 200 species, and will hold a month's 

 observations. They can be had printed with a selected list of 174 of the 

 land birds that are most likely to come under observation in the region from 

 Virginia to the St. Lawrence, east of the Mississippi, the rest of the 

 space being left blank for insertion of any other species that may be 

 noted. If preferred — as might be the case if used beyond these limits — 

 they can be obtained with the spaces for the names of the species left 

 blank, to be filled by the observer to suit the fauna of his own region. 



A fourth edition of Dr. Coues's 'Key to North American Birds,' 

 will be brought out immediately by Messrs. Estes and Lauriat of Boston. It 

 will be printed from the same plates as the third, of 1S87, and so will be 

 identical in the main body of the text; but will contain an additional 

 'Second Appendix,' in which will be noted all changes which the A. O. U. 

 Committee on Nomenclature have acted upon in the Committee's 'Sup- 

 plements' of 1SS9 and 1S90, thus bringing the subject down to date. A 

 short second preface will appear with this edition. 



The 'Ornithologisches Jahrbuch : Organ fur das palsearktische 

 Faunengebiet,' is a new ornithological journal, devoted especially, as its 

 name implies, to Palaearctic ornithology, edited by Victor Ritter von 

 Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, President of the Committee for Ornithologi- 

 cal Observation Stations in Austria-Hungary, and published at Hallein. 

 It is a 24-page, large octavo monthly, the first number bearing date 

 January, 1S90. It is intended later to increase the number of pages and 

 add illustrations. It is intended to fiil the long-felt need of a special 

 medium of publication for the now widely scattered material relating to 

 the Palsearctic ornis. The first two numbers are devoted to records of 

 rare captures in various parts of northern Europe. 



The Observer, published monthly, by E. F. Bigelow, at No. 5 Wav- 

 erly Avenue, Portland, Conn., is an eight-page newspaper, devoted to 

 natural history and popular science, with a department of 'Ornithology' 

 under the editorship of Mr. John II. Sage, containing original and selected 

 articles. The first number is dated January, 1890. 'The Observer' is 

 well edited and attractively printed, and as a popular journal of natural 

 history well deserves many readers. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott, with an ornithological assistant, has started on 

 an exploring trip to the Dry Tortugas, Key West, and the whole chain 

 of keys up to Key Biscayne. The trip will occupy several months. 

 Some account of it may be expected in the July issue of 'The Auk.' 



Will the person who, in January last, sent a section of a spruce tree 

 with" excavation of the Pileated Woodpecker, to R. Ridgway, Smithson- 

 ian Institution, please send him his address? 



