fairly deafen a person with their melody, and no wonder, 

 for the day is a clear, beautiful one. the temperature be- 

 ing; GO degrees-. 



Wandering Albatross. 



(American Field. June 1888.) 

 Local naturalists are puzzled by the appearance in this 

 vicinity, of numbers of the wandering albatross (exulans). 

 Eudit of these great birds have been killed on Fuget Sound 

 (lining the past few weeks, and all have been mounted, to 

 establish the fact of their appearance here. The Young 

 Nat lira list's Society, of this city, secured one specimen, Mr. 

 0. B. Still, another, and Mr. Petcovits, two: J.Y.Collins, 

 (•)[' Whatcom, one, and two have been, mounted for par- 

 ii-v s in Port Townsend, by taxidermists of this city. Will 

 not Dr. Goues, Robert Ridgway, or some other standard 

 authority, give the readers of the American Field some 

 information concerning the range and habitat of this wing- 

 ed wanderer of the ocean? 



Seattle, W. T. Silalicum. 



The Smithsonian Report for 1865 contains: ''Outline of 

 a Systematic Review of the Class of Birds." By Prof. W. 

 Lillejeborg, of Upsala. A copy of this should be in the 

 hands of every Ornithologist. 



fgg^Copy for February issue of The Loon should be in 

 by Feb. 5th. This number will have a very large circula- 

 tion. 



