288 Notes a7id News. [|„"l^ 



Ridgway as occurring in the Galapagos Islands, good series of nearly 

 all were obtained. ... In addition to nearlj' all the species known to 

 inhabit the Archipelago, examples of several more were obtained, some 

 seven or eight of which are new to science." Six of these are here 

 described, and include a flightless Cormorant (^Phalacrocorax harrisi'), 

 " the largest known Cormorant," with " wings of about the same size as 

 those of the Great Auk." 



The first annual meeting of the Connecticut Andubon Society was held 

 at Fairfield, Conn., June 4, 1898. The president, Mrs. Mabel Osgood 

 Wright, presided, and the meeting was addressed by Messrs. John H. 

 Sage, Frank M. Chapman, and Rev. Mr, Backus of Westport." 



Although the youngest of the dozen or more Audubon Societies now 

 existing, the Connecticut oi^ganization has already reached a membership 

 of over 300, while its financial condition will permit it to vigorously 

 prosecute the objects for which it was formed. In awakening an interest 

 in birds and extending popular knowledge concerning their value to 

 man, this Society purposes to adopt a plan as yet untried by its sister 

 Societies. Instead of expending its funds in printing and distributing 

 leaflets, it purposes to secure a stereopticon and set of colored slides of 

 birds, which, with lectures suitable for different audiences, will be loaned 

 to teachers and other responsible parties throughout the State at the 

 mere cost of transportation charges. 



The fifth edition of Chapman's ' Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America' has just been issued by its publishers D. Appleton & Co. It 

 is printed from the same plates as the preceding edition except that the 

 table of nesting dates on page 19 has been rewritten on the basis of 

 additional data. 



In the ' Report of the A. O. U. Committee on Protection of North 

 American Birds,' printed in the January Auk, I failed to mention that 

 the Wisconsin Bird Day law was introduced in and successfully carried 

 through the Legislature of 1897 hy Mr. John E. Morgan, member from 

 Sauk County.' Although Mr. Morgan informs me that the bill "encoun- 

 tered no opposition worth mentioning," yet he is entitled to the honor 

 and credit of having placed upon the statute books of Wisconsin a most 

 desirable law, one which I again urge upon members of the Union to 

 have passed in all States where such a law does not now exist. — Wm. 

 DuTCHER, N. V. City. 



