THE AUK 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 
PUBLISHED BY 
THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION 
ADDRESS CARE OF 
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 
LOGAN SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA 
WITMER STONE, Sc. D., EDITOR 
PHILADELPHIA, 
study and criticism. 
In the next report special attention will be called to any 
publication showing that proposed forms are invalid or proposed changes 
unnecessary. ‘The Committee itself would, no doubt, be able to cancel 
certain conspicuously erroneous propositions in the same report in which 
they are published, and members of the Committee would be urged as in- 
dividuals to investigate and publish upon as many of the proposed cases 
as possible. 
With the material thus collected it should be an easy matter 
for the Committee to decide upon the additions and changes required 
when a new edition of the Check-List is to be published. Unchallenged 
propositions would be accepted while in other cases arguments pro and 
con would be clearly presented. 
Moreover this plan will widen responsibility and relieve the 
Gommittee of much of the criticism and dissatisfaction which now attaches 
to the results of its labors. 
Does this plan meet with your approval? If not, what have 
you to offer as a substitute? 
Sincerely yours, 
Oe, UIE ae 
Acting Chairman, 
Com. Glassif. and Nomencl. N. A. Birds. 
