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the loan of his birds, he informed me that a portion of them had been 

 sent to Dr. Merriam in Washington, but tlie following were submitted to 

 me, viz. : White-crowned Sparrow (^Zonotrichia leiccoJ>hrys), Ruby-crowned 

 Kinglet {Reg'iiliis cale?idula), Golden-crowned Kinglet {R. satrapa). 

 Hermit Thrush {Tardus aotialaschkce pallasti), Gray-cheeked Thrush {T. 

 alicice), Bicknell's Thrush (T. a. bicknelli), Olive-backed Thrush {Turdtis 

 ustulatus szuaiiisonii), Tufted Titmouse (Parus btcolor), and Pigeon Hawk 

 [Falco columbarius). Mr. Haines assured me the Thrushes had all been 

 obtained between the middle of June and the middle of July ; the other 

 birds (the Kinglets represented by no less than seven specimens) bore 

 labels indicating capture in the Catskills on various dates between June 

 ID and June 19, 1S97. Suffice it to say, not one of these birds was in 

 breeding plumage! This statement will, I think, be borne out by Messrs. 

 J. A. Allen and D. G. Elliot, who also examined them. 



Now the point of all this is that Mr. Haines's ornithological statements 

 are not in accordance with facts, and as he has figured in print a number 

 of times during the past year or two, it is but natural to view all of his 

 work with suspicion. One article, ' The Kinglets and their Distribution,' 

 (The Osprey, I, Feb. 1897, pp. 73-75), asserts that he has found both spe- 

 cies breeding in the Catskills. As a matter of fact his "June" birds are 

 ttot breeding birds. It is not likely now that his additions to the Catskill 

 fauna will ever be published, nor will the breeding of Briinnich's Murre 

 {^Uria lomvid) at New Rochelle, N. Y., as announced on a program of the 

 Linnsean Society of New York, become a record, but it is time to put a 

 check to such perverted ambitions, and while I am quite unbiassed by any 

 f personal animus, I feel that my fellow members of the A. O. U. should be 

 warned against a person who has shown himself to be so eminently unde- 

 serving of credence. 



Yours very truly, 



Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 



New York, N. T., 

 Feb. 21, 1898. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Anders Johan Malmgren, a Corresponding Member of the 

 A. O. U., who died in Helsingfors, April 13, 1897, was born in Kajana, 

 Finland, in 1834. His life was quite eventful and successful in many 

 directions. Thus, in 1S69, he became Professor of Zoology at the Uni- 

 versity of Helsingfors; in 1874 he was made Commissioner of Fisheries; 

 and in 1889 he was appointed Governor of the northernmost province of 

 Finland. 



As a zoologist Malmgren paid most attention to the fauna of the boreal 

 regions of Europe, and he made valuable contributions to our knowledge 



