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DECEMBER NOTES 9 * ^ This month I am a Black Bird; a Keel-tailed Grackk (^uiscabs Quiscula) y commonly known as a Crow Black bird. This month’s Phonogram is just like the nest that my Bird builds out in the old orchard j a queer assortment of miscellaneous twigs, sticks and grasses—threads and shreds of Scope and Graph items, gathered from here, there and everywhere. I trust that the nest my Bird has built will prove interesting, even if it affords you only the pleasure of picking it to pieces with critical comment, kind or unkind, on the manner of its making. Note particularly, however, that this issue (and all other issues) of The Phonogram contains lists of new up-to- date records. Each issue is mailed promptly on the first day of the month in which it is dated. The way to be- come posted and to keep posted in the matter of new rec- ords, therefore, is to subscribe (thirty cents a year, if you please) and my Bird will fly each month to you, bearing in its beak a scrit or scroll or screed containing these lists of new records and other Scope and Graph miscellanies. f Subscriptions commence always with the current issue. One D. E. has written to me “ What’s the Bird got to do with it. I can’t make it out. Please explain. ” Friends, one and all, and D. E. in particular, The Bird is just a literary freak. The Nrw Tork Sun once had an office cat; and in the days of the elder Dana it was an al- most deified beast. It ate up undesirable MSS, it passed upon questions of syntax and prosody, it was held responsible for proofreader’s errors and editorial lapses. Why shouldn’t I have Birds as editorial companions ? So 1 shall continue. Each month I shall call upon a different