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the roll of membership was increased by the election, as " Cor- 

 responding Members," of many of the younger ornithologists 

 residing in other parts of the United States. 



During the winter of 1875 and 1876 the interest in the 

 Club seemed to have somewhat abated, doubtless in great part 

 owing to the removal of several of its more active members 

 to distant parts of the country, the regular attendance at the 

 meetings becoming mainly limited to the few original founders 

 of the Club. In March, 1876, it was decided to make an 

 effort to increase the resident membership, and to endeavor 

 to awaken anew the interest of all the members, both resident 

 and corresponding. Hence the matter of publishing a Bul- 

 letin was again seriously considered. The question being 

 decided affirmatively, the first number of the Bulletin was 

 issued May G, 1876, consisting of twenty-eight octavo pages 

 and a colored plate. Heretofore the Club had pursued the 

 policy of excluding professional ornithologists, rather, how- 

 ever, from a feeling of modesty than from any motive of ex- 

 clusiveness. Realizing, however, that in order to establish the 

 Bulletin on a firm basis, it was necessary to secure all pos- 



(new series of Amer. Sports.), Vol. VI, p. 50. [Based on observations made at 

 Lake Umbagog, Me.] 



10. Ornithological Notes from Portland, Me. By 1ST. C. Brown (Cor. 

 Memb.). Bod and Gun, Vol. VI, p. 65, May 8, 1875. [On the malformation 

 of the bill in a specimen of Plectrojrfianes nivalis, and a record of the capture of 

 Passercuhis princeps at Portland, and of Herod ias cgrctta in Scarborough, Me.] 



11. The Burrowing Owl in Massachusetts. By Ruthven Deane. Rod and 

 Gun, Vol. VI, p. 97, May 15, 1875. [Record of the capture of a specimen of 

 Speotyto cunicularia var. hypogcm at Newbuiyport, Mass.] 



12. Notes on the Habits of Certain Thrushes. By C. C. Abbott, M. D. 

 (Cor. Memb.). Rod and Gun, Vol. VI, p. 86, May 8, 1875. [Notes on Turdus 

 Pallasi, T. sicainsoni, and T. fusccscens, as observed at Trenton, N. J.] 



13. Partial List of the Summer Birds of Kanawha County, West Virginia ; 

 with Annotations. By W. D. Scott. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, Vol. XV, 

 pp. 219-230, Oct. 1872. [A list of eighty-six species, with notes.] 



14. Some Observations on the Birds of Ritchie County, West Virginia. By 

 Wm, Brewster. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 129-146, June, 

 1875. [An annotated list of one hundred species.] 



15. Some Additional Light on the so-called Sterna portlandica, Ridgway. 

 By Wm. Brewster. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 201-207, 

 Nov. 1875. [Its probable identity with S. macrura maintained.] 



