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Moscow; Dr. Herluf Winge, Copenhagen; 

 Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse, Philadelphia; 

 Prof. Dean C. Worcester, Manila, P. I. 

 Members, C. William Beebe, Prof. E. H. 

 Barbour, Benjamin T. Gault. E. H. For- 

 bush, George Spencer Morris, Robert E. 

 Snodgrass, Dr. Reuben M. Strong, Dr. 

 Robert H. Walcott. Ninety-eight associate 

 members were elected. 



A list of the papers included in the pro- 

 gram is appended: In Memoriam : Thomas 

 Mcllwraith, A. K. Fisher, Washington, 

 D. C; Notes on the Bird Colonies of the 

 California and Oregon Coasts, T. S. Pal- 

 mer, Washington, D. C. ; Nesting Habits 

 of Florida Herons, A. C. Bent, Taunton, 

 Mass. ; New Bird Studies in Old Delaware, 

 Samuel N. Rhoads, Audubon, N. J., and 

 Chas. J. Pennock, Kennett Square, Pa. ; 

 The Esthetic Sense in Birds, Henry Oldys, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Notes on the Protected 

 Birds on the Maine Coast, with Relation to 

 Certain Economic Questions, A. H. Nor- 

 ton, Westbrooke, Me.; Exhibition of Lan- 

 tern Slides of Young Raptorial Birds, pho- 

 tographed by Thos. H. Jackson, near West 

 Chester, Pa., Witmer Stone, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. ; Views of Farallone Bird Life, Frank 

 M. Chapman, New York City; The Bird 

 Rookeries of Cape Sable and the Florida 

 Keys, illustrated with lantern slides, Herbert 

 K. Job, Kent, Conn. ; A Winter Trip in 

 Mexico, illustrated with lantern slides, E. 

 W. Nelson, Washington, D. C. ; Some Nova 

 Scotia Birds, Spencer Trotter, Swarthmore, 

 Pa. ; Nesting Habits of the Whip-poor-will, 

 Mary Mann Miller, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Some 

 Variations among North American Thrushes, 

 J. Dwight, Jr., New York City; The Spring 

 Migration of 1903 at Rochester, N. Y., E. 

 H. Eaton, Rochester, N. Y. ; Warbler 

 Migration in the Spring of 1903, W. W. 

 Cooke, Washington, D. C. ; Some Birds 

 of Northern Chihuahua, Wm. E. Hughes, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. ; A Reply to Recent 

 Strictures on American Biologists, Leonhard 

 Stejneger, Washington, D. C; The Ex- 

 altation of the Subspecies, J. Dwight, Jr., 

 New York City; Variations in the Speed 

 of Migration, W. W. Cooke, Washington, 



D. C. ; An Ornithological Excursion to the 

 Pacific, Frank M. Chapman, New York 

 City; Bird Life on Laysan Island, illustrated 

 with lantern slides taken by Walter K. 

 Fisher, A. K. Fisher, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Ten Days in North Dakota, illustrated with, 

 lantern slides, W. L. Baily, Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Two Neglected Ornithologists — John 

 K. Townsend and William Gambel, Wit- 

 mer Stone, Philadelphia, Pa.; Bird Life at 

 Cape Charles, Virginia, George Spencer 

 Morris, Philadelphia, Pa.; San Clemente 

 Island and its Birds, Geo. F. Breninger, 

 Phoenix, Arizona; Yosemite Valley Birds, 

 O. Widmann, St. Louis, Mo:; The Origin 

 of Migration, P. A. Tavernier, Chicago, 

 III.; Comparison of the Provisional Schemes- 

 of the Classification of Birds, R. W. Shu- 

 feldt, New York City; A Contribution to- 

 the Natural History of the Cuckoo, M. R. 

 Leverson, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mortality among 

 Young Birds due to Excessive Rains, B. S. 

 Bowdish, New York City. In conjunction 

 with the Audubon Societies: Bird Protec- 

 tion by Agriculturists in Pennsylvania, H. 

 A. Surface, Harrisburg, Pa.; Collecting- 

 Permits: Their History, Objects and Re- 

 strictions, T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. 

 C; Report of the Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on the Protection of North American 

 Birds, Wm. Dutcher, New York City. 



A Piazza Bird List 



On October 3, 1903, I saw the following 

 birds from the piazza of my home in Sum- 

 mit, New Jersey: A large flock of Golden- 

 crowned Kinglets, Juncos, Chickadees, 

 Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrushes, a large 

 number of Veeries, a few Hermit Thrushes 

 (I think), six Catbirds, four Brown 

 Thrashers, one Maryland Yellow-throat, 

 two Scarlet Tanagers, a Goldfinch, a Brown 

 Creeper, Robins innumerable, Blue Jays- 

 galore, and the inevitable English Sparrow. 



Can any other reader of Bird-Lore beat 

 that record? I was not looking for birds 

 and I did not go off the piazza except to 

 trace and identify one Brown Thrasher. — 

 Bertha B. Watson, Summit, N. J. 



