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migrants, as shown by their bands, were caught repeatedly in 

 several successive years, thus showing that they followed identical 

 routes. Mr. W. L. Sclater gave a brief account of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union and its work, outlined the plan of the 'Sys- 

 tema Avium' or series of Check Lists of Birds of the principal 

 regions of the world, and submitted a proposal for holding an 

 International Congress of Ornithology in the United States in 1921. 

 The illustrated papers by Dr. Stone on the birds of the Chiricahua 

 Mts., Ariz., and by Dr. Chapman on South American Birds 

 represent the best type of papers — interesting and instructive 

 alike to the layman and the specialist. Technical papers such as 

 those by Mr. Chapin on African Rails, Messrs. Nichols and Griscom 

 on Seaside Sparrows, Mr. Swarth on Fox Sparrows, Dr. Matthew 

 on Diairyma, and Dr. Stone on the Use and Abuse of the Genus 

 were interspersed through the program, while habits of birds were 

 discussed at length in the interesting papers by Miss Sherman, 

 Dr. Chas. W. Townsend and Mr. C. W. Leister. Progress in 

 Ornithology in 1919, brought out discussion by a dozen members 

 who reviewed the various phases of activity during the year, and 

 Dr. Grinnell's 'Recollections of Audubon Park' and Mr. Crandall's 

 'Birds of the New York Zoological Park' prepared the members 

 for the trips on Friday. 



Thursday afternoon was devoted to a series of six papers illustrated 

 by ten reels of motion pictures. The audience thus had an opportun- 

 ity of comparing some of the best recent motion pictures among 

 which those of Sage Grouse by Mr. W. L. Finley and those of the 

 Heath Hen by Mr. Norman McClintock were especially notable. 



Other Events. On the three days of the public meetings the 

 members and visitors were guests of the Linnaean Society at 

 luncheon which was served in the bird hall on the second floor of 

 the Museum. On Wednesday evening, the annual dinner was held 

 in the Mitla Cafe in the Museum, followed by a reception in the 

 Bird Department where an opportunity was afforded of examining 

 the wealth of material in the study series of birds, and especially 

 some of the recent collections from South America and Africa. 

 On Tuesday evening the Union was entertained at the Explorers' 

 Club, 345 Amsterdam Ave., when Dr. Chapman presented his 

 illustrated paper on South American Birds followed by a conversa- 



