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volume is expected to appear about June. 1884. and the other bv the be- 

 ginning of 1S85. 



-^ll — Mr. C. B. Cory, has in preparation a work of the birds of Haiti and 



Santo Domingo. It will be uniform in size with his 'Birds of the Baha- 

 mas,' and will give figures of many of the species. It will be issued in 

 four or five parts, the first of which may be expected to appear about 

 March i. 



— Dr. Coues's new 'Key to North American Birds' will doubtless shortly 

 appear, the composition being nearly completed. We have seen stereo 

 proofs to p. 669 {RallidcE), and galley slips into LaridcB. The work will 

 comprise about 850 pages, and about 500 cuts, many of them new. The 

 work, entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged, consists of three parts. Part 

 I is the author's 'Field Ornithology,' reprinted with little change. Part 

 II, pp. 59-236, entitled 'General Ornithology,' includes an essay on the 

 classification of birds, and a treatise on avian anatomy. Part III is the 

 'Systematic Synopsis of North American Birds,' in which the original 

 brief diagnoses are expanded into more elaborate descriptions, with the 

 addition of the characters of the genera and higher gi-oups. 



— Dr. P. L. Sclater has begun the publication of a very important -Re- 

 view of the Family Icteridaz' (Ibis, April and July, 1883), giving diagnoses 

 and quite extended bibliographical references. One genus and several 

 species are characterised as new, and illustrations given of a number of 

 species not previously figured, in the two parts which have already 

 appeared. 



— The 'Ornithologist and Oblogist,' lately published by Mr. J. M. Wade 

 of Boston, has passed into the hands of Mr. Frank B. Webster, of Pawtucket, 

 R. I. The publisher announces that with the beginning of the new series 

 (Vol. IX, 1884), the size of the magazine will be increased from 8 to 12 

 pages per number, the subscription price remaining as heretofore at $1.00 

 per annum. A 'specimen' number for January, 1884, was issued about 

 December 20, 1883, and contains the usual number of good articles and 

 notes. There is doubtless room and need for a distinctively amateur 

 journal like this, and we cordially wish it success. 



— At a meeting of the Ridgway Ornithological Club of Chicago, 

 held December 6, 18S3, contributions to the museum and library were an- 

 nounced and seven corresponding members elected. Mr. B. T. Gault read a 

 paper on the Titlark Sparrow {Pasaerculus ant/iintts) , illustrated by speci- 

 mens of the bird, nest, and eggs collected on the coast of California. Mr. 

 A. K. Coale read a paper on the genus Zonofrichia. and mentioned the 

 recent capture of three specimens of Z. guerilla at Trempeleau, Wise. 



— At a recent meeting of the Nuttall Ornithological Club the following- 

 officers were re-elected for the ensuing year : President, William Brewster; 

 Vice-president, J. Amory Jeffries ; Recording Secretary, Henry A. Purdie ; 

 Corresponding Secretary and Editor. J. A. Allen; Treasurer. Charles F. 

 Batchelder. 



