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Thirty-fourth Congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union 



The thirtj'-fourth Annual Congress of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union was 

 held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, November 13-16, 1916. 

 The Congress was largely attended and 

 the courtesies extended the visiting mem- 

 bers by the Academy of Sciences and the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club in 

 addition to the attractions of an unusually 

 interesting program made it one of the 

 most enjoyable in the history of the Union. 



At the business meeting of Fellows and 

 Members the existing officers of the Union 

 were re-elected and the following Mem- 

 bers were elected Fellows: James H. 

 Fleming, Toronto, Canada; Harry S. 

 Swarth, Berkeley, California; W. E. 

 Clyde Todd, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



The following were elected Honorary 

 Fellows: Sergius Alexandrovich Buturlin, 

 of Wesenberg, Esthonia, Russia; Prof. 

 Dr. Max Fiirbringer, Heidelberg, Ger- 

 many; Dr. Hans Friedrich, Gadow, Cam- 

 bridge, England. 



The Corresponding Fellows elected 

 were: Wm. L. Abbott, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; David Armitage Bannerman, Lon- 

 don, England; Dr. Valentine Bianchi, St. 

 Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Roberto Dabbene, 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina; Alwyn Karl 

 Haagner, Pretoria, South Africa; Robert 

 Hall, Hobart, Tasmania; Dr. Einar 

 Lonnberg, Stockholm, Sweden; Dr. Percy 

 R. Lowe, Windsor, England; D. Auguste 

 Menegaux, Paris, France; Harry Forbes 

 Witherby, Hampstead, England. 



There were also elected 167 Associate 

 Members. 



PROGRAM 



In Memoriam— Daniel Giraud Elliot. Dr. Frank 

 iM. Chapman, New York, N. Y. 



In Memoriam — Wells Woodbridge Cooke. Dr. 



T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. C. 

 A New Name for an Old Friend. Harry C. Ober- 



holser, Washington, D. C. 

 The Life and Writings of Professor F. E. L. Beal. 



W. L. McAtee, Washington, D. C. 

 Bird Migration in Central .Africa. James P. 



Chapin, New York, N. Y. 

 Bird Casualties. Mrs. E. O. Marshall, New 



Salem, Mass. 



Meadowlark Duets. Illustrated by whistled songs 

 of Meadowlarks. Henry Oldys, Silver Springs, 

 Md. 



Woodcraft and Sparrow-proof Bird Boxes. Ernest 



Thompson Seton, Greenwich, Conn. 

 In Audubon's Labrador. Illustrated by lantern- 

 slides. Dr. Chas. W. Townsend, Boston, Mass. 

 Photographing Gulls at the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition. Illustrated by lantern-slides. Jo- 

 seph Mailliard, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Concerning Bird Banding. Illustrated by lantern- 

 slides. Howard H. Cleaves, New Brighton, 

 N. Y. 

 What Determines the Length of Incubation. Dr. 



W. H. Bergtold, Denver, Col. 

 A Review of the Diving Petrels (Pelecanoididae). 

 Robert Cushman jNIurphy, Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 and Francis Harper, Washington, D. C. 

 Exhibition of Hybrid Ducks, with Comments. 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Notes on some British Guiana Birds. C. William 



Beebe, New York, N. Y. 

 Attempts to record with the camera the food of 

 some native birds. Illustrated by lantern-slides. 

 Edward Howe Forbush, Boston, Mass. 

 The Home Life of our Common Birds. Illus- 

 trated by motion pictures. Herbert K. Job, 

 West Haven, Conn. 

 Some problems with every day Birds. Illustra- 

 ted by lantern-shdes. Dr. Arthur A. Allen, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 

 The Gannets of Bonaventure Island, Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence. Illustrated by motion pictures. 

 Percy A. Taverner, Ottawa, Canada. 

 Home Life of Various Minnesota Birds. Illus- 

 trated by motion pictures. Thomas S. Roberts, 

 M.D., MinneapoHs, Minn. 

 Bird Reservations of the Gulf Coast. Illustrated 

 by motion pictures. Herbert K. Job, West 

 Haven, Conn. 

 Bird Study and Life. W. Leon Dawson, Santa 



Barbara, Cal. 

 Geographical Distribution of Color in the Genus 

 J unco and its Significance as a Test of Species. 

 Jonathan Dwight, M.D., New York, N. Y. 

 The Shedding of Stomach Lining by Birds, par- 

 ticularly as Exemplified by the Anatidae. 

 Illustrated by lantern-slides. W. L. McAtee, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Notes on Long Island Birds. Robert Cushman 

 Murphy, Brooklyn, N. Y., and John Treadwell 

 Nichols, New York, N. Y. 

 Field notes on Chunga burmeisteri. Howarth S. 



Boyle, New York, N. Y. 

 Some Relationships of the North American 

 Passeres. Spencer Trotter, M.D., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 

 Personalia in Ornithology — Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Biography and Bibliography. Dr. 

 T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. C. 

 Birds of the Athabaska and Great Slave Lakes 

 Region. Illustrated with lantern-sHdes. Fran- 

 cis Harper, Washington, D. C. 

 Our Eastern Flycatchers and their Nesting Sites. 

 Illustrated by lantern - sHdes. William L. 

 Baily, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Washington Coast Bird Reservations. Lynds 



Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 

 Remarks on Certain Woodpeckers. W. DeWitt 



Miller, New York, N. Y. 

 Bird Day in the Querigua Forest, Guatemala. By 



Samuel N. Rhoads, Haddonfield, N. J. 

 An Ornithological Reconnaissance in South 

 America. Frank M. Chapman, New York, N. Y. 

 The Nesting of the Cock of the Rock. Leo E. 

 Miller. New York, N. Y. 



