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night-hawk. Mr. Batchelder followed with a talk on the songs 

 of the wood, hermit, olive-backed and Wilson's thrushes, with 

 illustrations and transcriptions on the blackboard. 



A Tennessee warbler which had been found dead was present- 

 ed by Miss Tuson. The species is very rare in this region and 

 the specimen excited unusual inter;est. Adjourned to June 7th. 



Wednesday evening, June 7th. Routine business. Adjourned 

 to June 2 1 St. 



Wednesday evening, June 21st. Routine business. Adjourned 

 to September 20th. 



Wednesday evening, September 20th. Routine business. Mr. 

 Batchelder was by vote of the Section appointed to take charge 

 of the calendar and compare the local list up to January ist, 1900, 

 with Chapman's list in his "Birds of Eastern North America." 

 I'he members engaged in a free discussion of plans for the com- 

 ing winter's work. A course of lectures was suggested. Ad- 

 journed to October 4th. 



Wednesday evening, October 4th. The executive committee 

 reported the engagement of Mr. Ralph Hoffmann, of Belmont, 

 Mass., to give a course of six lectures, one monthly, from Octo- 

 ber, 1899, to March, 1900. 



The calendar was read by Mr. F. W. Batchelder, who reported 

 the white-throated sparrow as a local summer resident. [See 

 Bird List.] He also stated that the olive-backed thrush had been 

 heard in full song on the ist and 2d of June last. An incursion 

 of red-breasted nuthatches in large numbers was reported as hav- 

 ing taken place in August and September, and a discussion fol- 

 lowed as to the cause of such an unusual occurrence, some attrib- 

 uting- it to circumstances relating to the food supply, others to 

 the exceptional coolness of the past summer. ■ ■ 



The Section, led by Mr. Fogg, made a special study of the 

 white-crowned sparrow, yellow-bellied sapsucker and Tennessee 

 warbler, of which finely prepared specimens were exhibited. 



Mr. W. E. Moore gave a detailed account of the birds seen by 



