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had seven different official organs, and in ad- 

 dition to a great deal of miscellaneous matter 

 has published detailed reports on the Thrush- 

 es, Owls and Sparrows. Two other reports 

 are nearly ready and others will soon be be- 

 gun. At present there are a hundred mem- 

 bers in the Chapter, representing twenty- 

 eight states and Canada. 



What to Study. 



The attention of every member is called to 

 the following paras'raph taken from a recent 

 and well-known work on Ornitholog}' : 



"The present generation of working Orni- 

 thologists have been too busy in hunting up 

 new species and in variety-making to study 

 the habits of birds with equal care and dil- 

 igence, and it is to Wilson and Audubon and 

 Xuttall that we are chiefly indebted even at 

 this day for what we know of bird-life. I 

 must not, however, be understood as imply- 

 ing that no additions have been made to this 

 branch of knowledge, nor as undervaluing 

 the importance of recewt observations. But 

 the field is large : and in comparison with 

 the work accomplished by the older writers, 

 and with that which is still unknown, the 

 recent acquisitions must be termed slight." 



All this shows how much work of real 



