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of several hundred bird skins and other ornithological curios. Admission to 

 the lecture, 35 cents. Tliis was a very entertaining and instructive lecture, 

 arousing in the hearers, a new interest in our constant 'companions, the birds. 



Prop. A. J. BupfinitTON, of Salem, Iowa, has become much interested in 

 watching a colony of Eave Swallows contending with a number of those dis- 

 repiitable foreigners — English Sparrows — that had taken up the abode of the 

 Swallows' before their arrival. He estimated that the Swallows in the colony 

 would number near three hundred, the Sparrows being way in the minority, 

 yet many were the hotly contested battles before the latter surrendered their 

 claims of proprietorship. The last report was that for several days no Sparrows 

 had been seen in the neighborhood. 



The editor of the Iowa Ornithologist is preparing a series of papers, 

 entitled "Birds of the Midland Region," for the Midland Monthly, of Des 

 Moines, Iowa. The first paper will appear in the June number. Most of the 

 illustrations are drawings from the pen of William Savage — Honorajy member 

 of the I. O. A. Of tJie talented collection of water color paintings of birds made 

 by this gentleman; brief mention has been given in the Iowa Ornithologist 

 before; In some future issue we expect to give space to an extended description 

 of his collection and print a number of half-tones from some of his best picturesv 

 It is believed that an equal to Fuertes is here. 



A COnPLETE AND ANNOTATED LIST OF 

 IOWA BIRDS. 



r^r^A^riDTT a rPTOAT ^ DAVID L. SAVAGE, Ch'm., CAS. R. KEYES, 

 COMPILATION \ MORTON E. PECK, PAUL BARTSCH, 



COMMITTEE. / j^^^ y CRONE, H. J. GILDINGS. 



THE committee-men stand ready and waiting to do their work of compiling 

 the list, as soon as the notes are sufficiently complete. With the October 

 1896, Iowa Ornithologist, a cheek-list of N. A. birds was sent to each member 

 of the I. O. A., with a request to check off the names of the birds personally 

 observed in the state, a cross to indicate summer resident and a dash, not 

 summer resident and also asked that the lists be returned promptly. 

 We acknowledge the receipt of hsts from the following members: 

 Ernast. Irons, Council Bluffs; Walter G. Savage, Hillsboro ; Edmonde S. 

 Currier, Keokiik ; Rob't A. Tomhnson, Alden; J. Eugene Law, Perry; 

 R. D. Goss, New Sharon ; Wm. A. Bryan, New Sharon ; Mary L. Rann, Man- 

 chester ; C. C. Smith, Decorah; W. W. Loomis, Clermont ; Hiram Heaton, 

 Glendale ; Guy C. Rich, Sioux City. From ornithologists, not members of the 

 I. O. A., but who have collected in the state, we have lists as follows : William 

 E. Praeger, Keokuk; Melvin Sornes, Ft. Dodge; J. A. Savage, Hillsboro; Chas. 

 K. Salisbury, Reinbeck ; Lynds Jones and Isador S. Frostier. We mailed more 

 than. ftfty lists ;-where are the others? Let the members attend to this matter 

 at once. Every member should contribute to this work, in order to make the 



