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THE OOLOGIST. 



the word "application," makiag it to 

 read as follows: All nominations for 

 membership shall be sent to the Secy- 

 Treas. of this Association and shall 

 then be referred to the executive com- 

 juitte which shall pass upon same. 



(2) To amend Section 4 of Article IV 

 'to read as follows: If a majority of the 

 executive committee shall vote in the 

 affirmative upon a nomination for mem- 

 bership, the applicant shall be elected 

 to membership, and the Sec'y-Treas. 

 shall notify applicant and members who 

 nominated same, of such action at once. 



(3) To amend Section 5 of Article V 

 to read as follows: The Executive Com- 

 mittee shall consist of the President 

 (who shall be chairman), the Vice- 

 President, the Secretary-Treasurer 

 (each of which shall be elected for one 

 year) and two Executive Committee- 

 men, who shall be elected for two years 

 each, one to be elected every year. The 

 Executive Committee shall publish all 

 reports, act upon all propositions and 

 applications and be otherwise governed 

 by this Constitution. 



The object of these amendments is to 

 simplify the electing of new members, 

 to place same in the hands of a commit- 

 tee, and to reduce the work of the 

 Sec'y-Treas. 



All members should express them- 

 selves in this matter by voting either 

 ior or against the amendments at once. 



J. Warren Jacob of Waynesburg, Pa., 

 ■C. F Stone of Branchport, N. Y., and 

 W. J. B. Williams of Holland Patent, 

 N. Y., were recently elected to mem- 

 bership in the association. 



All members who have not yet sent 

 •copy of their notes upon the "Rap- 

 tores" to James A. Dickinson, Gresh- 

 ;am, Neb,, should do so at once. 



A list of unreliable oologists is to be 

 prepared in the near future. If you 

 know of any who are "crooked" or who 

 have dealt with you fraudulantly, send 

 me their names and address at once 



and a complete story of the transaction 

 wherein they defrauded you. Do this 

 at once. 



Members should try and secure new 

 members. Secure a few copies of Bulle- 

 tin No. 1 from secretary and send same 

 to those you think would be interested, 

 or send me their name and address and 

 I will do so. ISADOR S. Trostler, 



Omaha, Neb. President. 



Breeding- of the Mourning" Warbler. 



In the September, 1893 Oologist at 

 the close of my article on "Breeding 

 Warblers of Western New York" I gave 

 a list of Warblers which I had good 

 reason to suspect nested in the limits of 

 that article but could not find any posi- 

 tive records. While out on a collecting 

 trip on the 31st of last May I met a 

 friend on the same business. He said 

 he had found a nest in a swampy wood 

 a short ways back that he thought was 

 something rare. At his request I went 

 to the place with him little thinking 

 that I was to make an indisputable rec- 

 ord for one of my suspects. My friend 

 led the way to an opening in a low 

 wood one mile northwest of the village 

 of Gaines, this county (Orleans), over- 

 grown with underbrush and various 

 weeds. I followed him to a mass of 

 nightsharJe (bittersweet) and parting 

 the foliage with his gun barrel disclosed 

 a female Mourning Warbler sitting on 

 her nest just above the ground support- 

 ed in some old dead brush over which 

 the Nightshade had trailed. On taking 

 flight she revealed live eggs of an un-. 

 usual type which if it should be con- 

 stant with the species would easily dis- 

 tinguish them from other ground Warb- 

 lers. After securing the birds we took 

 the eggs, which px'oved to be fresh, and 

 the nest. The latter was built mainly 

 of dead leaves with grass blades and 

 lined with fine rootlets and hairs. 



Eggs were creamy white, broadly 

 ovate, shell markings of pale lilac over- 



