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Mention of this name instantly recalls the famous work, 'Fauna Japonica,' 

 by Temminck and Schlegel. Among the other leading works may be 

 mentioned his critical review of European Birds (1S44), published in 

 French and German ; his Birds of the Netherlands (1854) ; his 'Handleid- 

 ing der Dierkunde' (1S57) ; his European Diurnal Birds of Prey and 

 treatise on Falconry ; and his researches on the Fauna of Madagascar. 

 One of his earliest treatises was an essay on the Physiognomy of Serpents 

 (1837), said to be the first really scientific work on serpents ever publish- 

 ed; and his latest publication was 'Notes from the Lej'den Museum.' 

 Our death-roll begins with one of the most illustrious names in ornitho- 

 logical science ; but only after the exceptionally protracted and honored 

 career of him who bore it — of one gathered to his fathers in the fulness 

 of time 5— of one whose works are his imperishable monument. 



. — By a vote of the Union the Council was empowered to fix the date and 

 place of the next Annual Meeting; and, persuant to this order, the Coun- 

 cil, at a meeting held March 11 in Washington, decided on September 30 

 next as the time, and New York City as the place, for holding the Annual 

 Meeting of 1884. 



— We have received the announcement of the 'Internationale Ornitholo- 

 gische Zeitschrift,' an illusti-ated quarterly Magazine of Ornithology, to be 

 published at Budapest, Hungary, edited by Dr. Julius von Madarasz, 

 Assistant Curator of the Hungarian National Museum. The subscription 

 for the volume is 12 florins. 



— 'Random Notes on Natural History' is the title of a twelve-page 

 monthly "devoted to the distribution of useful knowledge concerning the 

 various departments of zoology, mineralogy, and botany," published by 

 Southwick and Jencks, Providence, R. I. The two numbers that have 

 reached us are carefully edited and neatly printed, and contain, besides the 

 business advertisements of the publishers, many short articles relating to 

 the subjects above mentioned, including various interesting bird notes. 



— We are sorry to note that 'The Canadian Naturalist and Sportsman' 

 for December, 1SS3 (published in February, 1884), contains the announce- 

 ment that this valuable publication ends with this issue, owing to the 

 pressing business engagements of its editor and publisher, Mr. William 

 Couper. The steady impi-ovement that has marked its course had led us 

 to hope for it a long career of usefulness. 



— 'Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley, by W. W. Cooke and Otto 

 Widinann,' is the title of 'Bulletin No. i' of the Ridgway Ornithological 

 Club. The paper originally appeared as a series of articles in the 

 'American Field' (see anieh, p. 188), and as here reprinted forms a pam- 

 phlet of 38 pages, and preserved in convenient form matter of great interest 

 and value. 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Ridgway Ornithological Club, 

 held Feb. 7, Mr. B. T. Gault exhibited a hybrid between the Coot and 

 Gallinule, and among the papers read was one by Dr. Morris Gibbs on 



