THE OOLOGIST. 



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cations relating to the club should be 

 addressed to the secretary, J. M. 

 Howard, 284 Marshfield Ave., Chicago, 

 111.] 



The Audubon Ornithological Club 

 was organized in October, 1888, when 

 several of the young men in the neigh- 

 borhood met and adopted a constitution 

 and by-laws, and elected the following 

 officers: President, E. F. Walker; sec- 

 retary, A. M. Cox, and curator, J. M. 

 Howard. By the following year, very 

 little had been done except to revise 

 the constitution and by-laws, and be- 

 come acquainted with each other. We 

 found ornithologists, indeed, to be 

 ' ' few and far between . ' ' Several active 

 and a number of cori'espouding mem- 

 bers were admitted. In October, 1889, 

 the first annual meeting of the club was 

 held, when important business was 

 transacted and the following officers 

 were elected; President, A. R. Hager; 

 secretary and treasui-er, J. M. Howard; 

 cui-ator, A. M. Cox, and librarian, C. 

 A. Jones. A collection and library 

 has been started, an(^the club is on a 

 fair road to suecess. 



The OoLOGiST is the official organ of 

 the club, and should bo ordered by 

 evei-y member. It will contain notes 

 and items of interest as well as the 

 more important papers .\ 



May 6, 1889, A.M. Cox shot a full- 

 plumaged female Blue Grosbeak about 

 half a mile west of Chicago. They are 

 considei-ed accidental visitors in this 

 part of the state. 



We are sorry to hear that the splen- 

 did collection of H. K. Coale (number- 

 ing about fifteen hundred specimens) 

 has been sold to the British Museum. 

 It should have been obtained by some 

 museum in this country; at least as 

 such a chance does not run along the 

 road every day waiting to be picked 

 up. 



Pine Siskin. 



On November 23d, a cold, moist 

 morning, I had the pleasure of record- 

 ing a visit from those erratic little fel- 

 lows, the Pine Siskins. While on my 

 way down street, my attention was at- 

 tracted by the "tsee-a-daing" of three 

 Goldfinches as I thought at first, which 

 came undulating overhead and alighted 

 in an evergrean in a near by door-yard. 



Approaching the place, I soon found 

 no difficulty in identifying the charact- 

 eristics of our little erratic winter visi- 

 tant, the Pine Siskin, for such they 

 were. 



The crowd of three soon took wing 

 and dissapeared to be gone perhaps for 

 a year or more. 



Neil F. Posson. 

 'Medina, N. Y. 



From Michigan. 



Up to the middle of last week we 

 have had a great number Nuthatches, 

 Woodpeckers. Kinglets, Yellow-rumps 

 and' various sparrows with us. The 

 weather was very warm, and I was 

 somewhat surpi'ised one' day to find 

 that they had all disappeared, seem- 

 ingly, without cause. Two days after, 

 a storm set in which lasted two day^ 

 and which left the snow over a foot 

 deep. I merely cite this as an illustration 

 of the wonderful instinct of our 

 feathered friends. 



The Slate-colored Juncos arrived 



here Sept. 30; a very early date. 



Passenger Pigeons have been mox*e 



common in this county than for some 



tim» hei'etofoi'e. I have seen two 



flocks of about twenty each, and have 



heard of one containing sixty. On 



Mackinaw Island I shot a specimen of 



the rare Connecticut Wai'bler, Aug. 



30. 



Stewart White, 



Nov. 30. Kent Co,, Mich. 



