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the doctors disagreed, the proceedings to be published in the 

 NuTTAiLjL iBuLLETiN and the congressmen to bind themselves to 

 abide by the decision of the majority.. The plan seemed to him 

 ■perfectly feasible, and probably the on,ly way to secure the greatly 

 desired uniformity of namenclaiture. Not forgetting to inquire 

 politely respecting our "Ornithological Bibliography," the prog- 

 ress of which, he understood, had been arrested by the War 

 Department at Washington, and begging to be remembered to all 

 absent Nuttallians, .Surnia bowed gravely ;and withdrew. 



Among all our callers there was not one who did not ask par- 

 ticularly after our beloved and respected Editor-in-chief, expres- 

 sing the warmest sympathy with him in his long illness, and their 

 sincere hope^sfof his sp^^edy and perfect mstoraition to health.. 



■jSTEW BRUHSWICK NOTES. 



BY M. CHAMBERLAIN. 



Among other interesting .ornithological occuTrences with whic'h 

 the year 1882 favored observers in the vicinity of St. John was 

 the presence of some six pairs of Pine Grosbeaks {Pinicola 

 eneucleator) during the entire summer, in a heavy growth of 

 mixed woods, covering the crest of a hill overlooking the Kenne- 

 becasis River a few miles from the city. 



They were first seen on June 11, when Mr. James W. Banks 

 aeeidentally shot a female in the very act of arranging some dry 

 grass on a partially formed nest. It was placed in a small spruce 

 some seven feet from the ground and close to the trunk. About 

 a handful of this grass, unmixed with other material, had been 

 laid firmly upon a limb,, not woven together, but appearing more 

 like a platform for the main structure to rest upon, than the 

 bottom of a nest. When first seen the male and female were to- 

 gether gathering gr^iss on a hummock close by, and both seemed 

 (equally busy. When his mate was killed the male became much 

 excited and exhibited deep distress, continuing for some time 

 within three or four feet of Mr. Banks, as he sat examining the 

 dead bird, and once alighfing on a bough close to his head and 



