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were attended by 120 members of the 

 Union, of whom no less than twenty- 

 ei^ht were Fellows, a larger number of 

 Fellows than has ever before attended a 

 Congress of the Union. 



The Members of the Union were enter- 

 tained at luncheon daily by the Linnaean 

 Society. On Tuesday evening, Novem- 

 ber II, an informal reception was given 

 the Union by the .\merican Museum of 

 Natural History, in the laboratories of the 

 Department of Birds, and the Annual 

 Subscription Dinner of the Union was 

 held at the Hotel Endicott, on Wednes- 

 day evening, November 12. On Friday, 

 November 14, in response to an invita- 

 tion of the New York Zoological Society, 

 many members of the Union visited the 

 Aquarium and the Zoological Park. 



PROGRAM 



The Work of a Village Bird Club. By 

 Ernest Harold Baynes, Meriden, N. 

 H. (30 min.) 



Ivxperiments in Feeding Hummingbirds 

 During Seven Summers. By Althea R. 

 Sherman, National, Iowa. (20 min.) 



A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider. 

 By Dr. Charles W. Townsend, Boston, 

 Mass. (15 min.) 



A Study of the Feeding of Nestlings. By 

 Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. (20 min.) 



In Memoriam: Philip Lutley Sclater. By 

 Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot. 



The Problem of Gliding Gulls. Illustra- 

 ted by lantern-slides. By William Pal- 

 mer, Washington, D. C. ( 25 min.) 



Some Observations on the Nesting of the 

 Pied-billed Grebe. Illustrated by lan- 

 tern-slides. By Arthur A. .A.llen, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. (15 min.) 



Birds of the Bogota Region of Colom.bia. 

 Illustrated by lantern-slides. By Frank 

 M. Chapman, New York City. (40 

 min.) 



Bird Groups at the Field Museum of 

 Natural History. By Wilfred H. 

 Osgood, Chicago, 111. (15 min.) 



Some Migration Phenomena. By Lynds 

 Jones, Oberlin Ohio. (20 min.) 



Notes on the Nesting Habits of the North- 

 ern Violet-green Swallow {Tachycinrta 



tliiilassi)ut Icpidd), at Seattle, Wash- 

 ington. By S. F. Rathbun, Seattle. 



Wash. (10 min.) 

 Persuading the Robins to Nest near Our 



Homes. By Mrs. E. O. Marshall, New 



Salem, Mass (10 min.) 

 Alexander Wilson, 1 766-1813, and some 



Wilsoniana. By Dr. Witmer Stone, 



Philadeliihia, Pa. (20 min.) 

 The Present Status of Wild Swans in 



^Montana. By E. S. Cameron, Marsh, 



Montana. (20 min.) 

 A Forgotten Plumage Character of the 



American Scoter. By Dr. Jonathan 



Dwight, Jr., New York City. (15 min.) 

 Bird Banding Activities; Season 1913- 



By Howard H. Cleaves, New Brighton, 



N. Y. (20 min.) 

 Wild Fowl Studies in Northern Manitoba. 



Illustrated by lantern-slides By Her- 

 bert K. Job, West Haven, Conn. (45 



min.) 

 The Musical Method versus the Syllabic 



Method of Recording Bird Songs. By 



Robert Thomas Moore, Haddonfield, 



N. J. (15 min.) 

 Crossing the Andes of Peru. Illustrated 



by lantern-slides. By Wilfred H. 



Osgood, Chicago, 111. (60 min.) 

 Some Ornithological Aspects of the Federal 



Migratory Bird Law. By Dr. T. S. 



Palmer, Washington, D. C. (20 min.) 

 Notes on Nighthawks. By Harry C. 



Oberholser, Washington, D. C. (30 



min.) 

 Bird Studies on James Bay. By W. E. 



Clyde Todd, Pittsburgh, Pa. (15 min.) 

 The Present Condition of the Aviary of 



the New York Zoological Society. By 



C. William Beebe, New York City. 



(15 min.) 

 Birds of the South .\tlantic. Illustrated 



by lantern-slides. By Robert Cushman 



Murphy, Brooklyn, N. Y. (40 min.) 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Robert 

 W. Priest of the Gaumont Company, 

 Limited of London, there was a special 

 exhibition of the motion pictures of 

 Antarctic life taken by ]Mr. Herbert G. 

 Ponting, F. R. G. S., the official photog- 

 rapher of the last British Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion under Captain Scott. 



