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behind when all their companions have gone farther south tor 
the winter. As such may be mentioned the Catbird, Flicker, 
Hermit Thrush, Brown Thrasher, and possibly one or two others, 
but whether many of these less har dy birds survive till warm 
Last winter was noticeable owing to the presence of a small 
flock of Ww hite- winged Cross-bills, a bird not reported here before 
feeding chiefly on 
the fruit of the Cork-wood tree (Phelledendron ened 
Thunberg’s viburnum (V. oe also furnishe ccessible 
food supply in the late winter and early spring od ith the 
European barber ne various species of the honeysuckle 
family. A bird that once resided in the Garden but has not been 
tee for more than twenty years, I believe, is the Great Horned 
Owl. One certainly lived on the northeastern edge of the hem- 
ie grove during the winter of 1899 and 1 
. S. WILLIAMS 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
M . M. Johnson, a former student at the Garden and n 
assistant in botany and plant pathology in the University of 
ho, was a recent visitor at the Museum Building and Ex- 
perimental plots. 
. J. Humphrey, a government investigator stationed at 
Madison: Wisconsin, called at the Garden on aed 10 ot 
II to examine type specimens of resupinate polypores. 
had just been on a visit to Canada to study Gabe a 
Brlesser Faull. 
The New York Bird and Tree Club held an out-door meeting 
at ube ante on Oct ober 18; being conducted through the 
ff, assisted by Dr. G. Clyde 
Fisher, preadent of the Club. After the basket luncheon, there 
s an interesting meeting in the Museum Building 
Dr. Murrill gave an address on edible and poisonous fungi 
before the artists and other nature-lovers of Woodstock, New 
