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The next four volumes of the Catalogue will be devoted to 

 the Picariae, and are said to be all in a more or less forward 

 state. That on the Woodpeckers, by Mr. Hargitt, will, we 

 believe, be issued very shortly. Our Honorary Member, 

 Count T. Salvadori, has undertaken the volume on the Parrots 

 (which, we suppose, will be the twentieth), and he will be resi- 

 dent in London during the autumn for the purpose of 

 preparing it. 



New Bird-books in preparation. — Mr. Dresser is preparing 

 a supplementary volume to his ' Birds of Europe/ and has, 

 we believe, nearly 100 species to add to his former work. 

 Mr. Sharpe has made arrangements with Messrs. Sotheran 

 and Co. to publish a Monograph of the Paradise-birds, for 

 which, we understand, the plates contained in the c Birds of 

 New Guinea ' will be utilized, as far as they are available. 

 Mr. Seebohm is now engaged in passing through the press a 

 work on the Birds of Japan, and has, besides, a Monograph 

 of the Thrushes, with coloured figures of all the species, in 

 preparation. 



-/- Pelagodroma marina in the Canaries. — Mr. Bartlett, during: 

 his recent visit to the Canaries, picked up a specimen of 

 Pelagodroma marina dead on the sea-shore near Las Palmas, 

 on the 26th February. Its occurrence in the Canaries has 

 already been noted by several observers (cf. S. G. Eeid, Ibis, 



1888, p. 81 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1889, p. 14 ; Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 



1889, p. 517) ; and it probably breeds on some of the adjoin- 

 ing islets, but few specimens of this Petrel have yet been 

 obtained in this locality. Concerning its synonymy, cf. 

 Salvin, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. i. p. 228. 



Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union. 

 1890. — The Annual General Meeting of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological 

 Society, 3 Hanover Square, on Wednesday, the 21st May, at 

 6 p.m., Mr. P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., in the 

 Chair. 



