^^'gg^^J Notes and News. -^^.^ 



American Journ. Sci., Julj-Sept., 1898. 



Annals ot Scottish Nat. Hist., July, 1S98. 



Anzeigeblatt der Orn. Monatsschrit't des Deiitsclien Verein.s zuin 

 Schutze der \'ogelwelt, 1898, Nos. 1-9. 



Australian Museum, Records of, III, No. 4, 1898; Catalogue No. 4. 

 Parts I and 2, Accipitres and Striges, 2d ed., 1898. 



Birds and All Nature, IV. Nos. 1-3, July-Sept., 1898. 



Bulletin Wilson Orn. Chapter Agassiz Assoc, No. 20, 1898. 



Canadian Record of Science, VII, Nos. 6 and 7, 1898. 



Forest and Stream, LI, Nos. 1-13, 1898. 



Journal Cincinnati Soc Nat. Hist., XIX, No. 4, July, 1898. 



Knowledge, XXI, Nos. 153-155, July-Sept., 1898. 



Maine Sportsman, V, Nos. 59-61, July-Sept., 1898. 



Naturalist, The, a Month. Journ. of Nat. Hist, for North of England, 

 July-Sept., 1898. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, VI, Nos. 7-9, July-Sept., 1898. 



Ornithologischer Jahrbuch, IX, Heft 4, 1898. 



Our Animal Friends, XXV, Nos. ii-i2,XXVI, No. I, 189S. 



Ottawa Naturalist, XII, Nos. 4-6, July-Sept., 1898. 



Science, (2) Nos. 182-195, 1898. 



Shooting and Fishing, XXIV, Nos. 10-22, 1898. 



Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 

 XI, 1S96-97. 



Zoologist, The, (4) Nos. 19-21, July-Sept., 1898. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Sixteexth Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union will be held in Washington, D. C, beginning on the evening of 

 November 14, 1898. This evening session Avill be devoted to the election 

 of officers and members and the transaction ot the usual routine business. 

 Tuesday and the following days will be given to public sessions for the 

 reading and discussion of scientific papers. Members intending to 

 present papers are requested to forward the titles of their papers to the 

 Secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland. Conn., prior to November 6. in 

 order to facilitate the preparation of the program of papers to be read 

 before the Congress. 



OsBERT Salvin. an Honorary Member, of the A. O- U., who died at 

 his home, Hawksfold, near Haslemere, England, June i, 1898, was born 

 at Finchley in 1835. A sketch of Mr. Salvin, published in 'The Zoolo- 

 gist' for July. 1898, states that he was ''the only siu-viving son of Mr 



