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The Chicago Ornithological Society founded in December, 1912, by 

 Dr. R. M. Strong continues as an active organization, meeting on the 

 second Tuesday of each month. The officers for the current year are 

 Edward R. Ford, President; Dr. Alfred Lewy, First Vice President; 

 Prof. C. W. G. Eifrig, Second Vice President; Miss Marian Fairman, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, address 4744 Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 111. 



An interesting exhibit of pictures illustrating protective coloration in 

 nature and concerned with the origin of camouflage in war, by Abbott H. 

 and Gerald H. Thayer, was held in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, October 26 to November 17, 1918. 



Early in 1920 the Nuttall Ornithological Club proposes to issue a 

 supplement to its Memoir III, 'The Birds of Essex County '(Massachusetts) 

 by Charles Wendell Townsend, M. D., which was published in 1905. 



The author will be glad to receive any notes of interest on the birds of 

 this county, including earlier or later dates than those in the original 

 memoir, in order to make the supplement as complete and valuable as 

 possible. These notes should reach him on or before November 1, 1918. 

 Address 98 Pinckne}* St., Boston, Mass. 



A letter of Mr. M. Rasmusson describing the presence of a flock of 

 supposed Wild Pigeons in Saratoga County, N. Y., October 1, 1918, has 

 been given wide publicity by the N. Y. State Museum at Albany and was 

 published in 'Science' and doubtless elsewhere. While it is of course 

 impossible to satisfactorily verify such observations, attention might be 

 called to the statement of the observer that he had seen the bird but once 

 before, which was about twenty years ago near Ithaca. Even that obser- 

 vation was a very late one if the date is correctly given. 



Another observation of alleged Passenger Pigeons by John M. Crampton, 

 Supt. of the Conn. State Board of Fisheries and Game, in May, 1918, at 

 Southington, Conn., was published in 'The Conservationist' (Albany, 

 N. Y.), August, 1918. It seems more convincing than the other, as Mr. 

 Crampton was familiar with the birds from boyhood, but again positive 

 proof is impossible, and we have to consider several positive records of 

 men who had killed hundreds of pigeons, mistaking doves for pigeons in 

 later years! 



Called to the Colors.— During the past year lists of the members of 

 the A. O. U. in military and naval service have been published in each 

 number of 'The Auk' as the information was received. It now seems 

 desirable to present in one place the names of all these members in order 

 to show the active part taken by the American Ornithologists' Union in 

 the great world war. 



The following list has been corrected to Nov. 11, 1918, the date of the 

 signing of the armistice. It is still incomplete and in some cases (as shown 

 by months in parentheses), the latest information available is now out of 



