342 Notes and News. [October 
of these meetings will be the examination of material bearing upon the 
status and relationships of several groups of perplexing forms of North 
American birds. The groups chosen for consideration at the next meet- 
ing are the Horned Larks (genus Ofocorzs) and the Thrushes known as 
Turdus alicte and Turdus alicie bicknellz. It is hoped that those having 
specimens of these groups will kindly send or bring them for inspection. 
Packages of such material addressed to J. A. Allen, American Museum of 
Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City, will be received 
and cared for, and duly returned to the owners at the close of the meeting. 
Already one important loan of such material has arrived, and it is hoped 
this notice will serve to remind the members of the Union to send in due 
ime their contributions of material for examination. 
DurineG the last few months Dr. C. Hart Merriam has been making 
important explorations of the avian and mammalian faunas of the San 
Francisco Mountains in Arizona, under the auspices of the Department 
of Agriculture. Dr. L. Stejneger is also in Arizona, in the interest of 
the National Museum, collecting birds and reptiles, he having been ap- 
pointed, some months since, Curator of the Department of Reptiles at the 
Museum. 
Mr. CxiarkK P. STREATOR has been collecting birds and Mammals in 
British Columbia during the past summer for the American Museum of 
Natural History, to which he has already shipped about one thousand 
specimens. His work will throw much light on the distribution of birds 
in the Northwest, besides supplying large series of specimens of species 
not previously well represented even in our large museums. 
Mr. WILLIAM B. RICHARDSON has recently completed a trip through 
the Sierra Madre, from Tepic to Zacatecas in Mexico, in the interest of 
Messrs. Salvin and Godman, resulting in a collection of some 2000 bird 
skins, collected mainly in a region never before explored by a naturalist. 
Mr. W. E. D. Scott has, during the past summer, given much atten- 
tion to the birds of Mountain Lake and vicinity in Virginia, where, with 
his usual energy and activity, he has madea large collection of the sum- 
mer birds of this interesting locality. 
Messrs. McMillan & Co. of London are about to put to press Parts I and 
II (‘Field’ and ‘General Ornithology’) of Dr. Coues’s ‘Key to North 
American Birds’, as a volume of their ‘International Scientific Series.’ 
