BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



VOL. VIII. 



January, 1883. 



No. I, 



THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON. 



BY DR. COUES. 



Since we sent out the last number of the Bulletin, a great many 

 of our feathered friends have called upon us to pass the compli- 

 ments of the season, congratulating vis upon the close of the 

 seventh volume of their chronicles, and encoin-aging us to hope 

 for their distinguished patronage of the eighth fascicle of their 

 Pasti. On looking over our autograph album we find a number 

 of cards left by our New Year's callers, so prettily engraved that 

 we are sure our readers will be pleased to look over some of 

 the lot.* 



One of the earliest was 

 J. hiemalis^ who said he 

 had spent the summer 

 very pleasantly with his 

 family on the boundary 

 line between the Canadian 

 and Alleghanian Faunae 

 which was run in 1871 

 by Mr. Allen, after some 

 earlier preliminary sur- 

 veys by Prof. Verrill. He 

 was to pass the winter in 

 Washington, where he 

 desired the Bulletin to 

 be sent to him, addressed 

 to the care of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, as he 



* Ad viv. del. Edwin Sheppard, Philadelphiae ; xylogr. H. H. Nichols, Washington- 

 op. : permissu superiorum, Estes et Lauriat, Boston. 



