Tlili lUWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



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latter part of May and first of 

 July. During- one year when we 

 had very heavy reiins I found 

 eg-g-s quite late in July, I copy 

 one data which may be consider- 

 ed a typical one. 



No 6. Pied billed Grebe. May 

 23, 1891. Palo Alto Co. la.. 6 

 eg-g-s. A-6 Fresh. Identity sure. 

 Nest composed of mud and 

 decaying- vegatation. floating 

 in edge of a large slough. 



J NO. V. Ckone. 



The American Ornicholo^Jsrs 

 Union. 



The Twelfth Congress of 

 the American Ornithologisfs 

 Union was held in New York 

 City, November 12-15, 1894. The 

 business meeting took place on 

 the evening of November 12 in 

 the 'Board Room' of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 

 The three days' open session, to 

 which the public was invited, 

 was held in the Library 

 of the Museum. As a number of 

 the readers of the Iovv^a Orni- 

 thologist are not members of 

 the A. O. U. and therefore have 

 not received a report of the pro- 

 ceedings of that meeting- I give 

 below a portion of the secretary's 

 report which was published in 

 the January A^//^. 



Business Session: The meeting 

 was called to order by the Presi- 

 dent. Dr. Elliott Coues, Fifteen 



Active Members were present. 

 The Secretary's report gave the 

 membership of the Union 

 at the opening- of the 

 congress as 616, constituted as 

 follows: Active, 48: Honorary, 22; 

 Corresponding, 71; Associate 475; 

 — the total increase for the year 

 being 34. The officers elected 

 were Dr. Elliott Coues, Presi- 

 dent; ¥/m. Brewster and Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriam. Vice-Presidents; 

 John H. Sage, Secrerary; William 

 Dutcher, Treasurer. 



Public Session: jF/rs/ Day. 

 The meeting vv^as called to, order 

 by the President Dr. Elliott 

 Coues. An address of welcome 

 was made by Mr. Morris K. Jesup 

 Pres. of the Board of Trustees of 

 the Museum. After appropriate 

 response by the Chair, the meet- 

 ing at once proceeded to the con- 

 sideration of scientific papers. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman gave as 

 the first paper of the morning, 

 "Notes on the Habits of some of 

 Our Tropical Birds." 



The second paper was by Mrs. 

 Abby F. C. Bates, entitled "A 

 Swallow Roost at Waterville, 

 Me." In the absence of the author 

 it was read by Dr. J, A. Allen. 



The third paper by Otto Wid- 

 mann on 'Baird's Sparrow'. 



The fourth title weis 'The 

 Summer Range of Colorado birds' 

 by Prof. W. W. Cooke. In the 

 absence of the author it was read 

 by Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 



The fifth paper was "Notes on 



