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ship. His loss frotr. our ranks will be deeply felt. His brother, Captain 

 B. F. Goss, of Pewaukee. Wis., also a well-known ornithologist, and two 

 sisters, survive him, his wife having been long dead. 



Among new claimants to attention from ornithologists we note 'The 

 Collectors' Monthly,' edited and published by Charles H. Prince, Daniel- 

 sonville, Conn., a 4-page monthly, "devoted to Ornithology, Oology and 

 Natural History," of which four numbers have come to hand. We notice 

 as worthy of mention, a continued paper by W. W. Worthington entitled 

 'Notes on the Birds of Long Island, with brief Descriptions of the 

 Species.' 



'The Ornithologist and Botanist,' edited and published by Joseph E. 

 Blain, at Binghamton, N. Y. , is a large <Svo. monthly, of which Vol. I, 

 No. I, appeared Jan., 1S91. It is neatly printed and contains matter of 

 interest to both ornithologists and botanists. 



'Nature's Realm,' published by the Harris Publishing Company, New 

 York, is a popular monthly magazine of general natural history, with a 

 share of its liberal space devoted to ornithology. 



'The Kanzas City Scientist,' formerly 'The Naturalist,' now changed in 

 form, is an octavo 16-page monthly, published under the editorship of 

 R. B. Trouslot, as the organ of the Kansas City Academy of Sciences. 

 The number at hand contains much ornithological matter. 



'The Humming Bird, a Monthly Scientific, Artistic, and Industrial 

 Review,' is primarily the advertising medium of the publisher, Adolphe 

 Boucard, of Boucard, Pottier & Co., 'Naturalists and Feather Mer- 

 chants,' of London, and is published largely in defense of the feather trade 

 and the destruction of birds for millinery purposes, which it openly ad- 

 vocates. It contains, however, occasional papers which may be regarded 

 as ornithological, although strongly imbued with a commercial flavor, 

 as 'Notes on the Genus Pharomacrus or Resplendent Trogons,' begun 

 in the first (Jan. 1891) number and continued in the third number, and 

 'Notes on Rare Species of Humming Birds and Descriptions of Several 

 Supposed New Species in Boucard's Museum,' by A. Boucard. The 

 hitter paper contains descriptions of seven 'new species,' and is marked 

 "To be continued." The separations here made seem in most cases to 

 have a very unsatisfactory basis. 



The following literal transcript from page lO of the January number 

 will doubtless be of interest to the readers of 'The Auk': "Actually in 

 Europe only, over 200,000 persons have found hounorable and lucrative 

 occupation in the feather trade, and millions of pounds sterling are spent 

 annually, either in the purchase of bird-skins, or in the payment of per- 

 sons employed in this trade. I know of many firms who occupy hun- 

 dreds of men and women in the manufacture of fancy feathers, ornaments 

 and attires of all descriptions, feather hats, and in the mounting of 

 birds. This year, in consequence of the move which took place against 

 the wearing of mounted birds on hats and otherwise, a great 



