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Bird -Lore 



Nesting of Crossbills 



[Sir James M. Le Moine, of Quebec, well known for 

 his works on Canadian birds, sends us the following in- 

 teresting note by a personal friend on the breeding of 

 Crossbills in March. — Ed.1 



"Quebec, 25th March, 1901. 



"Dear Sir James: About ten days ago 

 I happened to be with a friend in the 

 woods, in the vicinity of the Grand Lac, 

 Bastonnais. In the course of one trip we 

 had to visit several lumber camps and were 

 told by choppers that they had during the 

 winter, in February and March, cut down 

 many spruce and fir trees containing nests 

 full of young birds. We refused to believe 

 the story unless we saw the 'young birds' 

 with our own eyes. 



"At one of the camps we found a man 

 who told us that he would endeavor to find 

 a nest that he had thrown aside a few 

 days before which contained three young 

 birds. He was away for a short time and 

 returned with one of the young. It was 

 only partially fledged and had been hatched. 

 I should say, about ten days previously. 

 The young bird was not a Pine Grosbeak, 

 but a Crossbill, of which there were thou- 

 sands all over that section of the country. 

 The cock birds were in their courting dress 

 — little balls of scarlet — and singing all 

 day as in early June. The nests are made 

 of moss, about the size of a football, walls 

 about two inches thick and a small hole for 

 the happy pair to enter their snug little 

 home. Sincerely yours, 



"E. JOLY De LOTBINIERE." 



Nineteenth Annual Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union 



The Nineteenth Annual Congress of the 

 A. O. U. was held at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History November 11-14, 

 1901. The attendance was large, the pro- 

 gram, which will be found on the following 

 page of Bird-Lore, was interesting, and the 

 meeting, like all A. O. U meetings, was 

 thoroughly enjoyable. 



At the business meeting of Active Mem- 

 bers, held on the evening of November 11, 

 the following officers were reelected : 



President, C. Hart Merriam ; Vice-Pres- 



idents, Charles B. Cory, C. F. Batchelder; 

 Secretary, John H. Sage; Treasurer, Wil- 

 liam Dutcher. Members of the Council : 

 Frank M. Chapman, Ruthven Deane, 

 Jonathan Dwight, Jr., A. K. Fisher, 

 E. W. Nelson, Thomas G. Roberts, Wit- 

 mer Stone. 



The by-laws of the Union were so 

 amended that the class heretofore known as 

 Active Members, the number of which is 

 restricted to fifty, became Fellows, and a new 

 class of membership, known as Members^ 

 intermediate between Fellows and Associates, 

 and restricted to seventy-five in number, was 

 established. The classes of memberships 

 composing the Union are now, therefore, 

 as follows: Fellows, who must be residents 

 of America, restricted to fifty in number; 

 Honorary Fellows, usually residents of a 

 foreign country, restricted to twenty-five in 

 number; Corresponding Fellows, restricted 

 to one hundred in number; Members, re- 

 stricted to seventy-five in number; Asso- 

 ciates, membership unlimited in number. 



The following Fellows were elected : 

 Outram Bangs, Boston, Mass.; F. E. L. 

 Beal, Washington, D. C; L. B. Bishop, 

 New Haven, Conn.; Joseph Grinnell, Palo 

 Alto, Cal.; T. S. Palmer, Washington, 



D. C, leaving only one vacancy, there 

 being now forty-nine Fellows. 



Fifty-five Members were elected, leaving 

 twenty vacancies in this new class. Their 

 names and addresses are as follows: 



Francis H. Alien, Boston, Mass.; H. P. 

 Attwater, Houston, Texas; Mrs. Florence 

 Merriam Bailey, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Vernon Bailey, Washington, D. C. ; Wil- 

 liam L. Baily, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Chester 

 Barlow, Santa Clara, Cal.; Prof. George 



E. Beyer, New Orleans, La. ; Frank Bond, 

 Cheyenne, Wyoming; Clement S. Brimley, 

 Raleigh, N. C; Herbert Brown, Yuma, 

 Arizona; Prof. Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, 

 Neb.; William Alanson Bryan, Honolulu,. 

 H. Ids.; Frank L. Burns, Berwyn, Pa.; 

 Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis, Indiana; 

 George K. Cherrie, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 

 John N. Clark, Saybrook, Conn.; Frank 

 S. Daggett, Pasadena, Cal. ; Walter Deane, 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; Prof . Barton W. Ever- 

 man, Washington, D. C. ; John Fannin, 



