368 Notes and News. [f^ r 



During the last year a considerable number of important bird groups 

 have been added to the collections of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, a more detailed account of which, with illustrations, may be 

 given later. These include, among others, the Heath Hen, the Prairie 

 Hen, the Sage Grouse, the Golden Eagle, the Sand Hill Crane, the Anhinga, 

 the Farallone Cormorant, an Arizona Desert Group, and a new Brown 

 Pelican Group. Material was gathered in April and May of the present 

 year by Mr. Chapman in the Bahamas for a Man-o'-War Bird group and 

 a Booby group, and in Georgia for an Egret group. He is now in the 

 Saskatchewan region to secure material for a large group of marsh-breeding 

 waterfowl, and later will visit the Canadian Rockies for material for 

 groups of Alpine species. 



Mr. E. Thompson Seton, accompanied by Mr. Edward A. Preble of the 

 U. S. Biological Survey, is spending the present season in the exploration 

 of the region northeast of Lake Athabasca, with especial reference to the 

 mammals and birds, and will doubtless add greatly to our knowledge of 

 that little known area. 



The occurrence of an immense flock of Thick-billed Parrots {Rhynchop- 

 sitta pachyrhyncha) , numbering from 700 to 1,000, in the Chiricahua 

 Mountains, Arizona, in August, 1904, is recorded in 'The Condor' for July, 

 1907 (IX, p. 104) by Mr. Austin P. Smith, who believes that this species 

 is not so casual in Arizona as has been supposed, but may be expected to 

 occur "every few years or so " in the mountains of southern Arizona. 



A noteworthy arrival at the Zoological Gardens in London is a collection 

 of living South American Hummingbirds received May 27 last, through 

 the liberality of Captain Albert Pam. Of a consignment of some fifty 

 specimens, all from Venezuela, twenty arrived alive, representing four 

 species. 



