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U. Bachofcu vou Edit, Pres. Oru. Vcrein, Vicuna, Austria ; W. 

 T. Blanforcl, F. R. S., London, Eng. ; Dr. Louis Bureau, Nantes, 

 France ; Maj. E. A. Butler, Roy. Irish Reg., Belfast, Ireland; 

 Dr. Edouard Baldamus, Coburg, Germany ; Dr. Rudolf Blasius 

 and Dr. Wilhelm Blasius, Brunswick, Germany ; Dr. Bogdanow, 

 Moscow, Russia; John Cordeaux, Ulceby, Eng. ; Dr. Alphonse 

 Dubois, Bruxelles, Belgium ; Professor A. Dug^s, Mexico ; Maj. 

 H. W. Feilden, Roy. Art., Woolwich, Eng. ; Dr. Victor Fatio, Ge- 

 neva, Switz. ; Dr. A. Girtanner, St. Galle, Switz. ; Dr. Hans 

 Gadow, Cambridge, Eng. ; Col. H. H. Godwin-Austin, London, 

 Eng. ; Mr. Edward Hargitt, London, Eng. ; Dr. Julius von Haast, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand; Dr. E. Holub, Vienna, Aust. ; Dr. 

 C. F. Homeyer, Pres. Allg. Orn. Deutsch. Gesells., Berlin, Germ. ; 

 Dr. C. F. W. Krukenberg, Wurzburg, Germ. ; Dr. Theobold J. 

 Kruper, Athens, Greece ; E. L. Layard, H. B. M. Con., Noumea, 

 New Cal. ; Graf. A. F. Marschall, Vienna, Aust. ; Dr. A. B. 

 Meyer, Dresden, Germ.; Dr. Julius von Madar4sz, Budapest; 

 Dr. M. Menzbier, Moscow, Russ. ; Dr. A. von Mojsisovics, 

 Gratz ; Dr. A. J. Malmgren, Helsingfors, Finland ; Dr. A. von 

 Middendorf, Dorpat, Russia ; Mr. Frank Nicholson, Manches- 

 ter, Eng. ; E. W. Gates, London, Eng. ; Col. N. Prejeval- 

 sky, St. Petersburg, Russia; Dr. R. Philippi, Santiago, Chili; 

 Dr. Gustav Radde, Tiflis, Russia ; Mr. E. P. Ramsey, Sidney, 

 N. S. W., Australia; Dr. Anton Reichenow, Berlin, Germ.; 

 Dr. Leopold von Schrenck, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Capt. G. E. 

 Shelley, London, Eng. ; Baron Edmund de Selys-Longchamps, 

 Li^ge, Belgium ; Dr. Herman Shalow, Berlin, Germ. ; Dr. W. 

 Severtzow, Russia ; Henry Stevenson, F. L. S., Norwich, Eng. ; 

 Rev. Canon H. B. Tristram, Durham, Eng. ; Count Victor von 

 Tschusi zu Schmidtoffen, Salzburg, Hung. ; Dr. Hjalmar Theel, 

 Upsala, Sweden ; Don Jos6 C. Zeledon, Costa Rica. 



Reports of Committees being next in order, the President 

 called for that of the Committee on the 'Revision of the Nomen- 

 clature and Classification of North American Birds.' Dr. Elliott 

 Coues, Chairman of the Committee, stated that the Committee 

 had held numerous sittings, and had gone carefully over most of 

 the subject, but as yet had left practically untouched all questions 

 of synonymy, and also classification, as regards the higher groups. 

 The work accomplished was the fixing of the status of the genera 

 and subgenera, and of the species and subspecies. Although so 



