C)0 Notes and News. Vun. 



the Fauna of Jamaica, W. 1., W. E. D. Scott; Birds of British Guiana, 

 J. J. Quelch ; Ornithology' in Our Schools, Abraham H. Bates; Kinship 

 of Birds as shown by their Eggs, J. N. Baskett; Bird Observations, or 

 When, Where and How to see Our Birds, O. B. Warren; Instinctin Birds, 

 J. H. Bowles; Changes of Habits in Certain Species of Maine Birds, 

 Manly Hardy; Slaughter of the Innocents, Leander S. Keyser; Some 

 Recent Economic and Scientific Questions in Ornithology, Dr. R. W. 

 Shufeldt; The Range of the Crossbills {Loxia) in the Ohio Valley, Amos 

 W. Butler; To the Rescue of the Birds, Hortensia M. Black; Some Notes 

 on the Herons of Central Florida, T. Gilbert Pierson ; Popular Names of 

 Birds, William E. Praeger. The success of the Congress was largely due to 

 the efforts of Dr. Coues and Prof. S. A. Forbes, and especially to the 

 efficient and untiring assiduity of the acting Secretary, Mrs. E. Irene 

 Rood of Chicago. The papers, as may be inferred from their titles, were 

 properly of a popular character and well adapted to stimulate interest 

 in ornithology and in the better protection of bird life. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York Cit\\ will return to the Island of Trinidad about the end 

 of January to resume his study of the Fauna of the Island, especially its 

 mammal and bird life. The results of his last year's work on the mam- 

 mals have been published (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., V, pp. 203-224), 

 and a very extended report on the birds is ready for the press, and will 

 probably be issued in February of the present year. 



Among the courses of popular lectures given free to the public at the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York City is a course on 

 •Birds of the Vicinity of New York City,' by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, 

 Assistant Curator in the Department of Ornithology. The lectures of 

 this course will be given on Saturday afternoons in January, 1894, and 

 will be followed by other courses in February, March, and April by other 

 Curators or their assistants, on Mineralogy, Mammalian Palaeontology, 

 and Entomology, in each case the lectures being illustrated by specimens 

 from the collections to which they relate. The experiment of giving 

 popular lectures to people earnestly in search of natural history informa- 

 tion was first tried last year, and the success attending last year's courses 

 shows that the efforts of the Museum authorities to popularize natural 

 history are well appreciated. The ornithological course will comprise 

 four lectures, as follows : I, Why we Studj- Birds, How to Study Birds, 

 Our Winter Birds, it, The Birds of March, April and May, and the 

 Spring Migration. Ill, The Birds of Summer, Birds' Nests, Birds' Songs. 

 IV, The Birds of Fall and the Fall Migration, Birds in their Winter 

 Homes. 



