IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



49 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted 



to the Study of Ornithology 



and Oology. 



DAVID 12.- SAVAGE, 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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David L. Savage, Salem, Iowa. 



Notes and News. 



We have received a very com- 

 plete list of Iowa birds from J. 

 L. DeVine of Chicago, 111., form- 

 erly from Iowa. Much to our 

 regret, we cannot publish the 

 list in the I. O. for lack of space- 

 Mr. D. S. Ebersoldof Oceanus, 

 Florida, collector of natural his- 

 tory specimens — his ad is on an- 

 other page of this magazine — 

 was once an Iowa boy. He fol- 

 lowed the plow, hoed corn and 

 did other rural work in Butler 

 Co., and has many relatives there 

 now. 



The Naturalist and Collector 

 of Abington, 111. , edited by P. 

 Wilber Shoup, has been discon- 

 tinued as it did not receive suf- 

 ficient patronage to warrant its 

 continuance. 



Mr. Paul Bartsch of Burling- 

 ton, Iowa, reports the taking of a 

 Barn Owl at that place on Nov. 

 22, 1895. 



The American Ornithologists' 

 Union held their Thirteenth 

 Congress at Washington, D. C, 

 on Nov. 12-15, 1895. with an 

 average attendance of fifty orni- 

 thologists. The officers elected 

 by the Union for the year, were 

 as follows: President, William 

 Brewster; Vice Presidents, Rob- 

 ert Ridgway and C. Hart Mer- 

 riam; Secretary, John H. Sage; 

 Treasurer, William Dutcher. 



Dr. A. 



Foote, the dis- 



tinguished scientist of Philadel- 

 phia, died Oct. 11, 1895, in At- 

 lanta, Ga. , to which place he had 

 gone to take charge of the Pen- 

 sylvania mineral exhibit. 



Dr. Foote was born m Hamil- 

 ton, N. Y. , Feb. 6, 1846. Soon 

 after graduating at the State 

 University of Michigan in 1867, 

 he was appointed assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry and mineral- 

 ogy in the Iowa State College, 

 which place he held for five years, 



