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On Friday, December 13, after adjournment of the Union, 

 Messrs. Stewardson Brown and George Spencer Morris conducted 

 a party to the historic Bartram's Garden so intimately associated 

 with the Hfe of Alexander Wilson, and on the 14th a "pilgrimage" 

 was made to Mill Grove, on the Perkiomen, the former home of 

 Audubon. 



The next meeting of the Union will be held in Cambridge, Mass., 

 commencing November 16, 1908. 



The attendance of members at the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 the founding of the Union was much larger than at any previous 

 Stated Meeting — the Pacific Coast and Canada being well repre- 

 sented. 



Jno. H. Sage, 



Secretary. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Canvasback at Bridgewater, Mass. — For many years until the 

 19th of October, 1907, there is no record of the Canvasback (Aythya val- 

 lisneria) at Nippenickett Pond, Bridgewater, Mass. Upon the above date 

 Elbert L. Hall and Irving Hall shot six birds of this species from a flock 

 of thirteen. All the captured ones, and as nearly as could be learned all 

 those escaping, were in either the female or immature male plumage. — 

 Arthur C. Dyke, Bridgewater, Mass. 



Capture of a Tagged Canvasback Duck. — On October 25 there was 

 killed in Manahawkin Bay, New Jersey, a hen Canvasback Duck with an 

 aluminum band on its leg containing the initials and number "T. J. O. D. 

 48." It would be interesting to know who banded this duck and for what 

 purpose. — Henry Oldys, Acting in Charge of Game Protection, Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



An American White-fronted Goose and Wilson's Phalarope in Essex 

 County, Massachusetts. — At Great Neck, Ipswich, Mass., early in August, 

 1907, an American White-fronted Goose {Anser albifrons gamheli), in a 

 wounded condition, was caught by Mr. A. B. Clark, and confined in his 

 yard. I saw the bird on August 25. It was an adult in full pliunage, and 

 appeared to have been wounded in one wing and in the leg on the same 

 side. 



