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Taverner, P. A., and B. H. Swales. The Birds of Point Pelee. (Wilson 

 Bulletin, Nos. 59. 61. 63, 64, 1907-1908.) 



Abstract Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Nos. 61, 62, 190S. 



Annals of Scottish Nat. Hist., No. 68, Oct., 1908. 



Avicultural Magazine, N. S., VI, No. 12, VII, Nos. 1, 2, Oct.-Dec, 1908. 



Bird-Lore, X, Nos. 5, 6, Sept-Dec, 1908. 



Bird Notes, Journ. Foreign Bird Club, VII, No. 7, Oct., 1908. 



British Birds, II, Nos. 5-7, Oct.-Dec, 1908. 



Bulletin British Orn. Club, Vol. XXII, Oct., 1908. 



Bulletin Charleston Museum, IV, Nos. 6, 7, Oct.-Nov., 1908. 



Condor, The, X, Nos. 5, 6, Sept.-Dec, 1908. 



Emu, The, VIII, No. 2, Oct., 1908. 



Forest and Stream, LXXI, Nos. 13-26, 1908. 



Ibis, The, (9) II, No. 4, Oct., 1908. 



Journal fur Ornithologie, LVI, Heft 4, Oct., 1908. 



Journal of the Maine Orn. Soc, X, No. 4, Dec, 1908 



Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, XIX, Heft 5-6, Nov., 1908. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, XVI, Nos. 10-12, Oct.-Dec, 1908. 



Ornithologische Monatsschrift, XXX, Nos. 8-10, 1908. 



Ottawa Naturalist,' XXII, Nos. 7-9, Oct.-Dec, 1908. 



Philippine Journal of Science, III, No. 3, June, 1908. 



Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sciences Philadelphia, LX, pt. 2, 1908. 



Proceedings California Acad. Sciences, (4) III, pp. 1-40, Oct., 1908. 



Science, N. S., Nos. 718-730, 1908. 



Wilson Bulletin, XX, No. 3, 1908. 



Zoological Bulletin Penna. Dept. Agric, VI, No. 4-8, Sept.-Nov., 1908. 



Zoologist, The, (4) XII, Nos. 142-144, Oct.-Dec, 1908. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Robert Morris Gibbs, well known as a Michigan naturalist and 

 ornithologist, died of paralysis at his home in Kalamazoo, September 18, 

 1908, at the age of 52. His name is familiar to most of the older bird 

 men, as he was an occasional contributor to 'Forest and Stream,' the 

 'American Field,' the 'Ornithologist and Oologist,' the 'Oologist,' and the 

 ' Nidiologist' (later the 'Nidologist'), a word originally coined by Dr. 

 Gibbs. His first work of importance was an Annotated List of Michigan 

 Birds, published in Bull. U. S. Geogr. and Geol. Survey of the Territories, 

 Vol. V, No. 3, 1879. He collected a large part of the material for Professor 

 Cook's 'Birds of Michigan,' published by the Michigan Agricultural College 

 in 1893, but the final draft of this bulletin was made entirely by others. 



About twenty years ago Dr. Gibbs suffered a stroke of paralysis which 



