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so accustomed to associating Snow Bunt- 

 ings with wintry storms and snow-blown 

 fields that the sight of these birds here in 

 a cabbage patch on a sunny mid-autumn 

 morning was a surprise to me. 



I may add that the season here has been 

 unusually mild and pleasant, and so the 

 early arrival of these winter birds seems 

 all the more worthy of note. — F. A. 

 Pennington. 



The Twenty-sixth Annual Congress of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union 



The Twenty-sixth Annual Congress of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union was 

 held in Cambridge, Mass., November 

 16-19, 1908. 



At the business meeting held in William 

 Brewster's Museum on the evening of 

 the 16th, the election of officers resulted 

 as follows: President, E. W. Nelson; Vice- 

 Presidents, Frank M. Chapman, A. K. 

 Fisher; Secretary, John H. Sage; Trea- 

 surer, J. D wight, Jr.; Councilors. Ruth- 

 ven Deane, William Dutcher, H. W. 

 Henshaw, F. A. Lucas, Chas. W. Rich- 

 mond, Thomas S. Roberts, Witmer Stone. 



F. DuCane Godman, of London, was 

 elected an Honorary Fellow, and Otto 

 Herman of Hungary a corresponding 

 Fellow. Between eighty and ninety Asso- 

 ciate Members were elected. 



The public sessions of the Congress were 

 held in the Museurn'of Comparative Zo- 

 ology, about one hundred members of var- 

 ious classes being in attendance. 



PROGRAM 



Tuesday a. m. 



Experiences of an Ornithologist in Costa 



Rica, M. A. Carriker, Jr., Pittsburgh. Pa. 

 Canadian Bird Havens, Ernest T. Seton, 



Cos. Cob, Conn. 

 A Hollow Tree, Ernest T. Seton, Cos. Cob, 



Conn. 

 Ornithological Miscellany from Audubon 



Wardens, B. S. Bowdish, New York City. 

 Scarcity of the Ruffed^Grouse in 1907, E. 



Sevmour Woodruff. 



Tuesday p. m. 



A way to lighten the burden of Nomencla- 

 ture, Jonathan D wight, Jr., New York. 



Vernacular names of birds, Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr., New York City. 



Some Observations on the Gulls and Terns 

 of Massachusetts (illustrated by lantern 

 slides), E. H. Forbush, Wareham, Mass. 



Wednesday a. m. 

 Observations on the Black Mamo of 



Hawaii. W. A. Bryan. 

 The tagging of wild birds as a means of 



studying their movements, Leon J. Cole, 



New Haven, Conn. 

 The part played by Birds in the recent 



Field Mouse Plague in Nevada, C. Hart 



Merriam, Washington, D. C. 

 The Position of the Birds' feet in Flight, 



Chas. W. Townsend. 

 The First Bird Protective Society in Italy, 



W. R. Lord. 



Wednesday p. m. 



A study of a breeding colony of Yellow- 

 headed Blackbirds, with an account of 

 destruction of the progeny of the entire 

 colony by some unknown agency (illus- 

 trated by lantern slides), Thos. S. Rob- 

 erts, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Propagation of Bob-white (illustrated by 

 lantern slides), C. F. Hodge, Worcester, 

 Mass. 



Methods of study of the Nesting Habits of 

 Birds (illustrated by lantern slides and 

 moving pictures), Frank M. Chapman, 

 New York City. 



Pelican Island in 1908 with other Florida 

 notes (illustrated by lantern slides and 

 moving pictures), Frank M. Chapman, 

 New York City. 



Thursday a. m. 

 Bird Studies in Northern Ontario, W. E. 



Clyde Todd, Pittsburg, Pa. 

 Triumphs of Bird Protection in Louisiana 



(illustrated by lantern slides), Herbert 



K. Job, West Haven, Conn. 

 Through Eastern Oregon (illustrated by 



lantern slides, by H. T. Bohlman and W. 



L. Finleyi, William L. Finley, Portland, 



Oregon. 



