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Ora Willis Knight. 

 The death is announced, in his fortieth year, of Dr. Ora 

 Willis Knight, well known as an authority on the birds of 

 Maine, on which he published the standard book (' The 

 Birds of Maine,' Bangor, Me., 1908), besides contributing 

 many notes on the same subject to the ' Auk.' Dr. Knight 

 was a chemist by profession, and had been consulting chemist 

 and assayer to the State of Maine since 1903. 



Anton Fritsch. 

 From ' Nature ' we learn of the death of Dr. Anton Fritsch 

 of Prague, on November 15, aged eighty-one. He was 

 director of the natuial history departments of the Royal 

 Bohemian University and for many years professor of 

 zoology in the same institution. Dr. Fritsch's first published 

 work (1851) was a list of the Bohemian, German, and Latin 

 names of the birds found in Bohemia ; and throughout 

 his life he took the deepest interest in the local fauna of 

 his native country. He will perhaps be best remembered 

 for his numerous researches in palaeontology, especially in 

 the Permian Amphibia of the " Gaskohle " formation. 



VI. Notices of recent Ornithological Publications, 



Bangs on some Siberian Birds. 



[Some Birds from the Highlands of Siberia. By Outram Bangs. 

 Bull, Miis. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. liv, 1913, pp, 463-474,] 



The expedition during which the collection here described 

 was obtained, took place under the leadership of Dr, Theodore 

 Lyman, of Harvard. He was accompanied by Mr, Hollister 

 and Mr. Klein, the latter a hunter and trapper of great 

 experience, and considering that only five weeks were spent 

 on the collecting-grounds, the results — 287 birdskins and 

 almost the same number of mammals — were astonishing. 



The localities visited were the Tchegan-Burgazi Pass, 



