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ornithology from two vastly different standpoints, because, if 

 the R.A.O.U. Check-list was intended for 50,000 members of 

 the Gould League of Bird Lovers, who are mostly children, and 

 know as much about the list as the majority who attended the 

 session when it was adopted (if this be the case, and it is not 

 to be accepted as scientific), then it will answer the purpose. 



Oversea ornithologists have killed the R.A.O.U. Check- 

 list in one blow. South Australia has turned it down to a 

 man, and many in the other States are doing likewise, so what 

 use for more on the subject. 



I am, etc., 



S. A. WHITE. 



