Vol. XIV 
1807 
Notes and News. 25 ai 
been issued by R. Friedliinder & Sohn of Berlin. About 350 species will 
be treated in two quarto volumes, with about 50 colored plates, and maps 
illustrating geographical distribution. The work is announced to appear 
during 1897. Subscription price, for the complete work, 10£. 
Mr. W. E. Crype Topp of the Biological Survey of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture has in course of preparation a work on the birds of 
the western half of Pennsylvania, which work will discuss in detail their 
geographic distribution and migration within that section, as well as 
these subjects in general. That the work may be complete he needs the 
assistance of every reliable ornithologist and odlogist now residing in 
the section in question, or who has any notes, however fragmentary, on 
the birds thereof. He would be greatly obliged if every such person 
not already in correspondence with him would write him at once, feeling 
sure that such correspondence would be mutually helpful. 
THE recently organized UNITED ORNITHOLOGISTS OF MAINE has elected 
the following officers for 1897: President, Arthur H. Norton, Westbrook, 
Me.; Vice President, Ora W. Knight, 354 Hammond St., Bangor, Me.; 
Secretary-Treasurer, Wm. L. Powers, Gardiner, Me. The object of this 
Society is to ‘‘ encourage a systematic study of the Avifauna of the 
State” of Maine. The Society has already entered vigorously upon the 
preparation of a list of the birds of the State, showing their distribution 
by counties. An excellent report on the ornithology of Maine will 
doubtless result from this timely effort. 
Tue date of the organization of the Massachusetts Audubon Society is 
given in the report of the A. O. U. Committee on Bird Protection as 
1886; it should be 1896. The first member was enrolled February 10, 
1896, and on the first anniversary of the Society it had 1280 members, and 
is now growing very rapidly. i 
An ‘ Audubon Society of the State of New York’ was organized in Feb- 
ruary, 1897, and is working in codperation with the American Museum 
of Natural History. Mr. Morris K. Jesup, the President of the American 
Museum, is also the President of the New York Audubon Society. Miss 
Emma H. Lockwood, 243 W. 75th St., New York City, is the Secretary- 
Treasurer. All correspondence relative to bird protection in New York 
State should be addressed to her. Circulars explaining the objects of the 
Society and applications for membership may be obtained from the 
Secretary. 
There is a growing sentiment for the protection of birds in various por- 
tions of the country, which will no doubt result in the formation of 
Audubon Societies in other States, and also in the founding of ‘ Bird 
Day’ in the schools. 
The Light-House Board, Washington, D. C., in response to a request 
of the A. O. U. Committee, has issued orders prohibiting the egg traffic 
on the Farallone Islands, California. 
