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NOTES AND NEWS. 



I 'hi up Lutley Sclater, D. Sc, F. R. S., one of the original Honorary 

 Fellows of the American Ornithologists' Union, died on June 27, 1913, at the 

 age of eighty-three years. Dr. Sclater was known throughout the scientific 

 world as secretary of the Zoological Society of London, a post which he 

 filled from 1859 to 1902; and as a founder of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, and editor of its journal 'The Ibis' from 1866 to 1912 with the 

 exception of a period of 12 years. He was also chairman of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club since its organization. His services to ornithology 

 throughout his long and active life can scarcely be overestimated, especially 

 in connection with neotropical bird life of which he made a specialty, and 

 upon which he published a long series of papers culminating with the 

 volumes of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, dealing with the 

 Tanagridse, Icteridae, Tyrannidae, Dendrocolaptidse, Formicariadae and 

 other characteristic neotropical families. Dr. Sclater's loss will be felt by 

 ornithologists the world over, especially by the many who were fortunate 

 enough either through personal contact or through correspondence to 

 count him as a friend. 



At the request of the president of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot will deliver a memorial address on Dr. Sclater 

 at the annual meeting of the Union in November, which will be published 

 in full in the January number of 'The Auk.' 



The American Museum's zoological explorations in South America, 

 which, during the past two years, have produced such interesting results 

 in the northern parts of that continent, now promise to be even more 

 effectively prosecuted in southern South America, under the leadership of 

 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who in December plans to enter Southern 

 Brazil. 



Mr. George K. Cherrie and Mr. Leo E. Miller, both tried members of 

 former Museum expeditions, will accompany Colonel Roosevelt as field 

 ints. 



In Ecuador, Mr. Richardson has had a successful season and a shipment 

 of 1400 birds and mammals has just been received from him. These 

 specimens were collected in part on the coast from the northern extension 

 of the arid coastal zone of Peru, and give definite information of where 

 this arid stiip merges into the humid coastal region of northeastern Ecua- 

 dor and western Colombia. 



Mr. Richardson also collected in the luxuriant forests of the Subtropical 

 Zone at an altitude of 6000 feet, in the Temperate Zone about Quito and 

 the base of Pinchincha, and in the Paramo or Alpine Zone of Pinchincha 

 and Chimborazo, working on the latter mountain up to an altitude of 



