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Flemingon Migrationsof Branrich'sMurre2-- Briinnich'sMurre is an Arctic species,breeding in North America from the MagdalenIslands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,northward, and appearsto be ordinarilyonly to a smallextent migratory. At intervals,however, it appearsin sotnenumbers as far south as Long Island, New York, and occursas a stragglersouth t(} ChesapeakeBay and westwardalong the Great Lakes. Its appearance at any of thesepoints is usually rare and irregular, but during the last fifteen yearsthere have beenseveral notable invasions of this species. Mr. Fleminghas done excellent service in compilingand mappingthese migra- tions. His recordbegins with the winter of 1890.-91,when the species appeared in unusual numbers on the New England coast. None were noted for the winter of 1891-92, and only a few for that of 1892-93. In the winter of 1893-94 there was a large migration to the Great Lakes, notableas beingtheir first appearancein this region,while few were seen on the Atlantic coast. The next great migration, and "the most extensive recorded," occurredin the winter of 1896-97, "reaching far down the Atlantic coast and into the interior of eastern North America"--on the coast to North and South Carolina, in the interior to central Indiana. The followingwinter there was a restrictedmigration to the St. Lawrenceand its tributaries. In 1899-1900 there was again a widespreadmigration, extending southward along the coast to Virginia, and in the interior to. Lake Ontario. For the followingwinter the recordswere few; more were seenin 1901-02, but during the followingthree winters there was no not- able invasion. Mr. Fleminggives reasons for believingthat thesemigrations originate in HudsonBay, and are causedby lack of food,due to the closingin of the movingand shoreice, thusdepriving them of accessto openwater. They usually arrive in an emaciatedcondition, and, visiting regions"unsuited to sustainthe life of a bird whosefood is marine," it seemsprobable that noneof the thousandsof birdsthat make the unusualjourney ever return to their place of origin. Two maps illustrate Mr. Fieming's excellent paper,one showingthe placesof recordfor the speciesfrom 1890to 1903, and the other for the great migration of 1896.-- J. A. A.

Lass's Bird Life of a City Garden?-- This is a list of birds observedin a city gardenin Charleston,S.C., basedon recordsmade in 19024)6,inclu- sive, and numbers90 species. Sonheare commonsummer residents and breedersin the garden;others are transient visitors or arenoted as merely passingover, as in the caseof sonheof the larger hawks, herons,etc. The, list is naturallyof muchlocal interest, and waspublished largely for the

x The Unusual Migration of Brfinnich's Murre (Uria lomvfa) in Eastern North America. By J. H. Fleming. Proc. IVth Internat. Orn. Congress,1905 (1906), pp. 528-543, with two maps. • Bird Life of aCity Garden. By Herbert ttavenal Lass. Bull. of College of Charleston Museum, Vol. II, No. 7, November, 1906, pp. 57-66. ¾ø1'1907XXIV-I J RecentLiterature. 365 purposeof awakeninginterest in naturestudy among the teachersof the .city. The sanhenumber of the ' Bulletin' recordsthe captureof a Frigate Bird (Fregataaquila) on SullivanIsland, Charlestontiarbor, on October20, 1906,which makes the secondrecord of thisspecies for SouthCarolina.-- J. A. A.

Shufeldton the Osteologyof the Tubinares.•-- Followinga reviewof the literatureof the generalsubject, are a few pageson the osteologyof Pu/- finusborealis, with a half-tonefigure of the skeleton,and a shortdiscus- sion of the taxonomyand affinitiesof the Tubinares. The classification that seems to the author to be "natural" is the same as that given in Sharpe's'Hand-List of Birds.'--J. A. A.

NOTES AND NEWS.

ALFREDNEWTON, an HonoraryFellow of the AmericanOrnithologists • Union, died at Cambridge,England, June 8, 1907, at the age of 78 years. Prof. Newton was born in Switzerland,June 11, 1829, of Englishparents, he beingthe fifth sonof William Newton,formerly member of Parliament for Ipswich,and of Elizabeth (Milnes),daughter of Richard Slater Milnes, formerly memberof Parliament for York. He was graduatedB. A., in 1853,at MagdalenCollege, Cambridge, and later, as a travelingFellow of the College(1854-1863), visited Lapland, Iceland, the West Indies, and North America, and in 1864 he visited Spitzbergen. He was elected professorof ZoSlogyand ComparativeAnatomy at MagdalenCollege in 1864, which positionhe held at the tinheof his death. ProfessorNewton wasone of the twenty originalmembers of the British Ornithologists'Union, founded in November, 1858 at Magdalen College, 'Ca•nbridge, which organization resulted in the establishment of a Quarterly Magazineof Ornithology,'The Ibis,' the first volumeof which was publishedin 1859, under the editorshipof Dr. P. L. Sclater. The secondseries of 'The Ibis' (1865-1870) was edited by Newton; he also prepared the bibliographicalmatter for the 'Aves' of the 'Zo61ogical Record'for the years1864-1869, and waseditor of the ' Zo61ogicalRecord/ 1870-1872. His principal publications are 'The ZoSlogy of Ancient Europe' (1862), the' Ornithologyof Iceland' (1863), ' 06theca Wolleyana' (1864-1907), 'Zo61ogy' (1874, 1894), 'Yarrell's British Birds' (4thed.,

• On the Osteology of the Tubinares. By R. W. Shufeldt. Amer. Nat., Vol. XLI, Feb. 1907, pp. 109-124.