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associate members are reqttested 

 to furnish from time to time such 

 special articles of interest as their 

 work and observation may provide 

 them with. 



Sec. 3.-- Names of candidates for 

 membership may be proposed by 

 active or associate members and 

 such proposal should be accompan- 

 ied by such recommendations of 

 the proposed candidate as the 

 proposer may have in his posses- 

 sion. 



Sec. 4.— The President shall have 

 power to appoint a committee of 

 three (3) active members to 

 assist the Editor-in-chief. 

 Sec. 5,— The candidate for Exec- 

 utive Coucilmen, who shall re- 

 ceive the hig-hest number of elec- 

 ting- ballots shall be the Chair- 

 man of the Executive Council. 

 Sec, 6.-- In case two candididates 

 for the same office shall receive 

 each an equal number of electing^ 

 ballots, that one, who received 

 the hig-hest number of nominat- 

 ing- ballots shall be declared 

 elected. 



Sec 7.— The annual dues of act- 

 ive members shall be fifty (50) 

 cents, and of associate members 

 shall be forty (40) cents. 



Sec. 8.-- The Iowa Okni- 

 THOLOGiST shall be sent free 

 to all members of the Iowa Orni- 

 tholog-ical Association. 



Sec, 9.-- The Constitutions of 

 this Association shall be kept by 

 the Secretar3^ Each member of 

 the Association shall be entitled 



to one copy, free of charg-e, but 

 for all subsequent copies he shall 

 be charg-ed 10 cts. per copy. 



Sec. 10, ~ The By-laws may be 

 amended by a two-thirds vote of 

 the active members. 



C. R. Ball. 

 Wm. A. Bryan. 

 E. B. Webster. 



Ex. Council. 



Votes of the active members, 

 reg-arding the acceptance or re- 

 jection of iho: revised Constitution, 

 must be sent to the Secretary by 

 the 1st day of May. 



David L. Savage. Sec'y. 



General Notes of Interest. 



Odd Nesting of the Bronzed 

 Grackle.— May 21, 1893, I took 

 a ramble east of town across the 

 prairie toward "Woodpecker 

 Row*', so called because there 

 are about 50 stumps (formerly 

 Cottonwood trees) now used for 

 fence posts, they are nearly all 

 occupied by the Golden wing-ed 

 Woodpecker. Going- alongf the 

 row, tapping- with a stick on each 

 post imag-ine my surprise at see- 

 ing- a Bronzed Grackle fly out of 

 one of the hollow posts. It flew 

 across the road and lit on a fence 

 post. The Flickers' old home was 

 lined with grasses and mud; the 

 inner lining- with fine grasses, 

 and hair. The nest contained 

 five eg-g-s, incubated; this is the 

 first record that I can find of the 



