62 Seventeenth Congress of the A. O. U. ees 
Jan. 
The second title, ‘On the Orientation of Birds,’ by Capt. Gabriel 
Reynaud, of the French Army was read in part, in the absence 
of the author, by Mr. Chapman. Remarks followed by Dr. Allen 
and Messrs. Chapman, Dutcher, Morris, Palmer, and Stone. 
Next came ‘ The Molt of the Flight-feathers in Various Orders 
of Birds,’ by Witmer Stone. Remarks followed by Mr. Chapman. 
The fourth title was ‘ Notes on the Flammulated Screech Owls,’ 
by Harry C. Oberholser. Remarks followed by Mr. Hindshaw 
and the author. 
The fifth title was ‘Language of the Birds,’ by Nelson R. 
Wood. 
The opening paper of the afternoon session (Vice-President 
Cory in the Chair) was by Mr. Harry C. Oberholser, entitled 
‘A New Wren from Alaska.’ 
The next title was ‘Some Cuban Birds,’ by John W. Daniel, Jr. 
Remarks followed by the Chair and the author. 
Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes then gave, by special request, imita- 
tions of the notes of wild birds. Remarks followed by Messrs. 
Hindshaw, Stone, and Fuertes. 
The seventh and concluding paper, ‘On the Perfected Plum- 
age of Somateria spectabilis, by Arthur H. Norton, was read in 
part by Mr. Witmer Stone, in the absence of the author. 
Mr. Stone, then exhibited and called attention to numerous 
specimens of Arctic birds in young plumages collected by Edward 
A. Mcilhenny. 
An honored visitor to the daily sessions was Dr. Samuel W. 
Woodhouse, of Philadelphia, who made explorations in New 
Mexico and Arizona in the early fifties. Woodhouse’s jay 
(Aphelocoma woodhousei) was named after him more than forty 
years ago by Prof. Baird. 
On Friday, November 17, after adjournment of the Union, at 
the invitation of Mr. W. H. Wetherell, owner of the property, Mr. 
~George Spencer Morris conducted a party to Mill Grove, on the 
Perkiomen, the former home of Audubon. Mrs. Morris F. Tyler, 
of New Haven, Conn., wife of the treasurer of Yale University, a 
granddaughter of Audubon, was a member of the party. 
The next meeting of the Union will be held in Cambridge, 
Mass., commencing November 12, 1goo. 
