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df systematic ornithology by adopting such rules as the above. We ore 

 already seeing evidence of the dilemma in which the rejection of trinomials 



ha> placed them, when we find in their latest publications some new 

 binomial names denoted as species and others as subspecies! The publi- 

 cation of the Check List will be looked forward to with much interest. 



The twenty-third annual meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithologi- 

 cal Club was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on 

 January 2, 1913; The officers elected for the ensuing year were: President, 

 Stcwardson Brown; Vice-President, Henry W. Fowler; Secretary, J. 

 Fletcher Street and Treasurer, Samuel C. Palmer; Robert T. Moore con- 

 tinues as editor of Cassinia. 



Some of the more important communications presented before the Club 

 during the year were: A Trip to the Magdalen Islands, by W. L. Baily; 

 A Trip to Ecuador with Special Reference to the Tierra Templada, by 

 Samuel X. Rhoads; The Classification of Birds, by Spencer Trotter, M. D.; 

 Summer Birds of McKenzie Pond, Adirondacks, by E. L. Poole; and The 

 Embryology of a Bird, by Samuel C. Palmer. 



The J. P. Bell Co., Lynchburg, Va., announces the early publication of a 

 work on 'The Breeding Birds of Virginia,' by Mr. Harold H. Bailey. The 

 volume will comprise about 300 pages of text with 14 colored plates and 

 one hundred half-tones. The edition will be limited and orders should be 

 sent to H. H. Bailey, Newport News, Va., Price, exclusive of postage S3. 



MESSRS. Witherijy & Co. are shortly publishing for Mr. H. Kirke 

 Swann 'A Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds,' which 

 will contain some five thousand names with their meanings and localities 

 as well as much information on the Folk-Lore, Weather-Lore, and Legends 

 connected with birds. 



Just as we go to press we have received a copy of Mr. Robert Ridgway's 

 long expected Color Book under the title 'Color Standards and Color 

 Nomenclature. 1 Washington, D. C. Published by the Author. $8. (cash 

 with order), postage extra, registered 20 cts. 



The work consists of forty-three pages of text and fifty-three colored 

 plates depicting 1115 named colors! Besides furnishing an indispensable 

 standard of colors for naturalists and others who have to deal with fine 

 gradations of tints it constitutes a thoroughly scientific presentation of 

 the entire subject of colors and their relationship. 



Dr. .b A. ALLEN of the American Museum of Natural History, formerly 

 editor of The Auk.' sailed for Europe last month as one of the American 

 delegates to the Ninth International Zoological Congress, to be held at 



