Mr. Johnson stated that he had seen what he beUeved to be 

 four Fish Crows {Cqrvus ossifragus) at Greenfield, Mass., 

 April 2. He had repeatedly heard their call, with which he is 

 familiar, uttered in ordinary flight. 



Mr. Hubbell and Mr. Marks spoke of birds they had seen 

 recently at Greenwich, Conn., and Putney, Vt., respectively. 

 The most interesting occurrence was the whistling of a Bob- 

 white (Colinus V. virginianus) at Greenwich as early as April 

 11; Mr. Hubbell said he had rarely heard one before May. 



Discussion of the migration showed that in the continued 

 cool weather culminating in the 10-inch snowfall of April 4 

 few birds arrived, but there was a big wave in the ensuing 

 warm week, so that by Sunday the 12th the migration was 

 about up to schedule, or even (as in the case of three Towhees 

 (Pipilo e. erythrophthalmus) seen in Central Park on the 12th 

 by Mr. Hix) a bit ahead. 



Mr. Weber told of the cutting of a patch of timber above 

 Palisades Park, N. J., last summer, and how quickly certain 

 birds not previously seen above the valley had appeared there, 

 as Grasshopper Sparrow {Ammodramus savannarum australis) 

 and Yellow Warbler (Dendroica ce. cestiva) last autumn and 

 Vesper {Pooecetes g. gramineus) and Chipping {Spizella p. 

 passerina) Sparrows already this spring. 



Mr. Harper described a habit he had noticed in Loons 

 {Gavia immer) and American and Red-breasted Mergansers 

 {Mergus americanus and M. serrator) in Saskatchewan and 

 Mackenzie last summer. A bird on the water would immerse 

 its face just enough to put its eyes below the surface and fre- 

 quently follow this action with a dive, so that Mr. Harper 

 supposed that it was doing this in order to avoid the surface 

 reflection and ripples in looking for fish. 



Mr. Rogers reported the safe arrival in New York of Mr. 

 James P. Chapin, who had been absent nearly six years on the 

 American Museum's expedition to the Belgian Congo. The 

 expedition had collected everything from insects to anthro- 

 pological material. Mr. Chapin had brought home about a 

 quarter of the whole, including hundreds of small mammals 

 and nearly all of the six thousand birds, some new to science. 



