238 Notes and News. [Ajjjjj 



Other articles are 'A Study of the Solitary Vireo,' by Cornelius Weygandt 

 (pp. 10-15); 'Summer Birds of Western Pike County, Pennsylvania,' 

 by Richard C. Harlow (pp. 16-25); 'The Concordville Robin and Grackle 

 Roost,' by Samuel C. Palmer (pp. 26-29); 'A June Trip to Pocono Lake, 

 Monroe County, Pennsylvania,' by John D. Carter (pp. 30-34); 'Winter 

 Bird Life in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania,' by William L. Baily 

 (pp. 35-39); 'Report of the Spring Migration of 1906,' compiled by 

 Witmer Stone (pp. 40, 57), arranged in tabular form, and followed by 

 several pages of notes on species not included in the tabular matter. An 

 'Abstract of Proceedings' (pp. 58-64), a bibliography, 'Bird Club Notes,' 

 and list of officers and members complete this very interesting number. 

 The Club held sixteen meetings during the year, with an average attend- 

 ance of twenty-four, and a maximum attendance of forty. Few orni- 

 thological clubs, if any, in this country can present an equal record of 

 activity and sustained interest in its chosen field as is here reported in 

 'Cassinia.' — J. A. A. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



August Koch, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 died suddenly at Mohawk, Florida, Feb. 15, 1907, where he was spending 

 the winter. Mr. Koch was born in Stuttgard, Germany, in 1837, and 

 came to this country with his parents in 1850. His home was at Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa., where he had resided for many years. "As a boy," says 

 'Forest and Stream' (of March 8, 1907, p. 336), "he was very fond of 

 natural history, and before leaving Stuttgard he had taken lessons in 

 taxidermy from the curator of the Stuttgard Museum. He was an ardent 

 collector of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and insects up to the time of 

 his death, and was in correspondence with biologists in various parts of 

 America and Europe. A close student of nature, combining manual 

 dexterity with an artistic temperament, the natural history specimens 

 which he mounted were life-like to a degree seldom seen in public collec- 

 tions. He leaves probably the largest, and certainly the finest collection 

 of its kind in Pennsylvania. 



"Mr. Koch was an ardent sportsman, a splendid wing shot and a man 

 who had worked out his own code of ethics long before game laws were 



regarded as of much importance or enforced at all On the morning 



of Feb. 15 he was apparently in excellent health, and during the forenoon 

 took a stroll through the woods with his gun. At noon he returned, 

 put away his gun and started to walk across the yard when he was stricken 



