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Bird- Lore 



The Twenty -fourth Annual Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union 



The twenty-fourth Annual Congress of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union was 

 held in Washington, D. C, November 12- 

 15, 1906. Twenty-four Fellows were pres- 

 ent, a number exceeded on only one occa- 

 sion, and there was a large attendance of 

 members and associates. 



At the business meeting held on the even- 

 ing of November 12, the officers of the pre- 

 ceding year were reelected ; Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was 

 elected to Corresponding Fellowship, and 

 Waldron DeWitt Miller, of New York 

 City, and Arthur T. Wayne, of Charleston, 

 South Carolina, were elected members. An 

 amendment to the constitution was passed 

 increasing the limit of the class of Members 

 from seventy-five to one hundred. 



The public sessions of the Congress were 

 held in the lecture room of the United States 

 National Museum, where the papers included 

 in the appended program were presented. 



Most noteworthy among these papers were 

 Mr. Nelson's account of his and Mr. Gold- 

 man's remarkable horseback journey of 2, 500 

 miles in Lower Calfornia, and Mr. Finley's 

 description of his surprising experiences with 

 a pair of Condors whose nest was found 

 near Pasadena, California, in the spring of 

 1906. Mr. Finley exhibited a series of thrill- 

 ing photographs, taken by Mr. Bohlman 

 and himself, some of which showed both 

 adult Condors at arm's length. A study of 

 the young Condor was made from the time 

 of its hatching until it had assumed its 

 flight plumage. 



Of special interest, also, were the an- 

 nouncements of the discovery of the breed- 

 ing of Bachman's Warbler in Kentucky by 

 Embody, and in South Carolina by Wayne. 



As usual, the social features of the Con- 

 gress were most enjoyable. A luncheon was 

 served each day at the public session by the 

 Washington members of the A. O. U. and 

 members of the District of Columbia Audu- 

 bon Society, and the annual dinner of the 

 Union, attended by about one hundred 

 guests, was held at the Riggs House on the 

 evening of November 12. 



PROGRAM 



'A Plea for the Killdeer,' William 

 Dutcher ; 'Where Wild Birds Sleep,' Irene 

 G. Wheelock; 'Some Experiments with 

 Nesting Boxes' (illustrated with lantern- 

 slides), E. H. Forbush ; 'Ornithological 

 Notes from the West' (illustrated with lan- 

 tern-slides), Frank M. Chapman; 'The 

 Home Life of the California Condor' (illus- 

 trated with lantern-slides by H. T. Bohl- 

 man and W. L. Finley), W. L. Finley; 

 ' Notes on the Early Life of Loon Chicks,' 

 C. William Beebe ; 'The Effects of Intense 

 Humidity on the Colors of Zonotrichia, 

 Hylocichla and Scardafel/a,' C. William 

 Beebe; ' The Life Zones of New York State 

 as Determined by its Avifauna (illustrated 

 with lantern-slides), E. Howard Eaton; 

 ' The Habits of a Young California Con- 

 dor ' (illustrated with lantern-slides by H. 

 T. Bohlman and W. L. Finley), W. L. 

 Finley; 'Exhibition of Lantern Slides/ 

 William L. Baily; 'A Review of Genus 

 Junco,' Jonathan Dwight, Jr.; 'Summer 

 Bird Life of the Newark, New Jersey, 

 Marshes,' Clinton G. Abbott; 'The Status 

 of the Rio Grande Seedeater,' J. A. Allen; 

 ' On Horseback Through the Deserts of 

 Lower California ' (illustrated with lantern- 

 slides*, E. W. Nelson; 'Imitation in Bird 

 Music — A Study of Wood Thrushes,' 

 Henry Oldys ; ' Interesting Bird Songs Noted 

 in 1906,' Henry Oldys; ' Present Conditions- 

 of Gull and Tern Colonies on the Atlantic 

 Coast,' William Dutcher and B. S. Bow- 

 dish ; On the Eastern Forms of Geothlypis 

 trichas, Frank M. Chapman; 'Delaware 

 Valley Wild Fowl — Past and Present,' S. 

 N. Rhoads; ' Bachman Warbler Breeding 

 in Logan County, Kentucky,' G. E. Em- 

 body; 'The Nest and Eggs of Bachman 

 Warbler, taken near Charleston, S C./ 

 Arthur T. Wayne; 'A Question of Right 

 Nomenclature,' William Palmer ; 'A Species 

 or a Subspecies? ' William Palmer; 'Trails 

 of a Naturalist in Nevada ' (illustrated with 

 lantern-slides), H. C. Oberholser; 'The 

 Wood Thrush of the Glen,' Jane L. Hine; 

 'Some North Carolina Birds '( illustrated 

 with Iantern-slidesl, by T. Gilbert Pear- 

 son. 



