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illustrated with a portrait. Says the author, very truly, "Alexander Wil- 

 son will always hold a distinctive place as the pioneer worker in Ameri- 

 can ornithology. Audubon was the artist, the gifted painter of our bird 

 life. Both of these men were poet and artist rather than scientist. It was 

 Charles Lucien Bonaparte who first placed American ornithology on the 

 firm basis of science." Mr. Cornelius Weygandt writes of the 'Summer 

 Birds of Broadhead's Creek, Munroe Co., Pa.'; Mr. Richard F. Miller on the 

 'Breeding of the Florida Gallinule (Gallinvla galeata) in Philadelphia 

 County'; Mr. Sandford Omensetter on 'The Media Grackle Roost' (with a 

 half-tone plate); Mr. C. J. Peck on 'The Overbrook Grackle Roost '; Mr. 

 Witmer Stone on 'June Birds of Fulton Count}', Pa.'; Mr. E. Semour 

 Woodruff on 'Summer Birds of Milford, Pike County, Pa.'; and a 'Report 

 on the Spring Migration of 1905,' is compiled by Mr. Witmer Stone. The 

 'Abstract of Proceedings,' eight pages, is followed by a 'Bibliography for 

 1905' of the ornithological papers by the various members of the Club, 

 wherever published; by 'Bird Club Notes,' a list of the officers and mem- 

 bers, and the index. The officers for 1906 are: Spencer Trotter, M. D., 

 President; William A. Shryock, Vice-President; Herbert L. Coggins, Secre- 

 tary; Stewardson Brown, Treasurer. — J. A. A. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Professor Clark on 'The Feather Tracts of Swifts and 

 Hummingbirds.' 



To the Editors of 'The Auk': — 



Dear Sirs: — Recently I have read with pleasure the contribution of 

 Professor Hubert Lyman Clark to the above subject, and which appeared 

 in the last issue of 'The Auk' (Jan., 1906, pp. 68-91). It is not my in- 

 tention to present here anything which may be considered at all in the 

 light of a full review of this article, but I do desire to point out a few of 

 the slips Professor Clark has again been guilty of in quoting my own writ- 

 ings in the same field. I say again, because he seems to be particularly 

 unfortunate in the construction he places upon my words and statements 

 as they appear in an article I printed a good many years ago in the Journal 

 of the Linnaean Society of London (1888) on my 'Studies of the Macro- 

 chires,' etc. The nature of these slips I undertook, and I think very suc- 

 cessfully, to point out in 'The Condor' some time since (Vol. IV, No. 2, p. 

 47). 



Professor Clark in his article in ' The Auk ' takes great pains to make it 

 clear to his readers when I wrote my Linnsean article on the ' Macrochires ' 



