322 Notes and News. [j^JJS 



law have been introduced in Indiana and Pennsylvania (S. 46) and have 

 passed one branch of the legislature with a fair chance of enactment in 

 spite of the active opposition of the millinery interests. Among other 

 measures of special interest to ornithologists may be mentioned the Ten- 

 nessee law removing the Robin from the game list, the Pennsylvania bill 

 (S. 45) protecting the Dove, Killdeer and Blackbird throughout the year 

 which had passed, the California bill placing Wild pigeons, Doves, and all 

 Limicolse on the nongame list (S. 1190), the lulls in Connecticut (H. 222) 

 and New Jersey (A. 206) removing protection from the Starling, and the 

 effort in Connecticut to restore the provision for issuing permits for 

 scientific collecting. Oregon has established several important State game 

 preserves and revised her entire game law, Vermont lias likewise adopted 

 an entirely new game code, and Wyoming has stopped spring shooting of 

 ducks and geese (S. F. 11). 



The usual number of bills permitting spring shooting has been intro- 

 duced especially in Connecticut, New York, and Colorado, but in Wiscon- 

 sin the measure met a decisive defeat ill the Assembly Committee. Texas 

 is considering the withdrawal of protection from pelicans and certain other 

 fish-eating birds. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and South 

 Dakota are struggling with the question of reorganization of their game 

 departments, and California has under consideration several freak bills, 

 one of which (A. 2S7) proposes to divide the State into 5S game districts, 

 one for each county, and another (A. 1992) to make every member of the 

 legislature a game warden who shall serve without compensation. 



We learn from the Press Bulletin of the Canadian Department of Mines 

 that the Victoria Memorial Museum has just received a tine collection 

 of several hundred Canadian birds, the gift of Mr. J. H.Fleming. The 

 specimens are said to constitute one of the best mounted collections in 

 Canada. 



A CIRCULAR issued by the editor of ' British Birds' states that the readers 

 of this magazine have placed over 32,000 rings on wild birds of various 

 kinds. The most striking of the numerous 'return records' that have 

 been received is that of a Swallow, banded by Mr. J. R. B. Masefteld at 

 Rosehill Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, May 0, 1911, and found near 

 Utrecht, Natal, South Africa, on December 23, 1912. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 

 the Check List Committee, which has for some years been engaged in 

 preparing a list of Australian birds, presented its report. The facts that 

 trinomials are rejected, and that the principle of priority is not carried farther 

 back than the dates contained in the works of John Gould, will demon- 

 strate how absolutely this list will differ from the recent list published by 

 Mr. Gregory M. Mathews. 



We fear that Australian Ornithologists are not advancing the interests 





