488 Sage, Thirty-third Stated Meeting of the A.O. U. Lbct. 



the skeleton of a Phalacrocorax macropus having come into the 

 possession of science. 



Finding this bird in Montana will prove, up to date, that it 

 probably was an abundant species during Pleistocene time and 

 earlier, ranging over a considerable portion of the northwestern 

 section of Middle North x\merica, or at least that portion of this 

 continent now so named. 



No little interest also attaches to the fact of finding these remains 

 associated with the fossil bones of a highly specialized teleostean 

 fish, if fish it be, which lived during the same era that this extinct 

 cormorant described by Cope did. 



THIRTY-THIRD STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



BY JOHN HALL SAGE. 



The Thirty-third Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union convened in San Francisco, Cal., Monday evening, May 17, 

 1915. The business meeting was held at the California Academy 

 of Sciences, and the public sessions, commencing Tuesday, May 18, 

 and lasting three days, were held in the Auditoriums of the Young 

 Women's Christian Association and of the Eiler Musical Company, 

 within the Exposition Grounds. 



Business Session. The meeting was called to order by the 

 President, Dr. Albert K. Fisher. Eleven Fellows were present. 

 The Secretary's report gave the membership of the Union at the 

 opening of the present Stated Meeting as 1156, constituted as fol- 

 lows: Fellows, 50; Retired Fellows, 3; Honorary Fellows, 13; 

 Corresponding Fellows, 56; Members, 79; Associates, 955. 



Since the last meeting (April, 1914) the Union lost fifty-four mem- 

 bers, nine by death, eighteen by resignation, and twenty-seven for 

 non-payment of dues. The deceased were: 



