Suwance River, Fla., in company with Mr. Wm. Brewster and Mr. 

 F. M. Chapman. Birds were comparatively scarce but an Ivory- 

 billed Woodpecker {Campephilus principalis) and about forty 

 Bachman's Warblers {Helminthophila bachmani) were obtained. One 

 night in March ice formed and all the budding shoots were killed. 

 [See Auk, VIII, 1891, pp. 125-138 and pp. 149-157.] 



Mr. Chapman had recently watched a specimen of Helminthophila 

 leucobronchialis and heard it sing repeatedly. Its song hardly 

 differed from that of H. pinus [Auk, VII, 1890, p. 291]. 



Mr. Scott stated that he had observed a difference of two months 

 in the leafing of a particular water oak at his home in Florida. 



It was the opinion of those members who had been in the field 

 this season that the spring migration had been unusually early and 

 was already over. 



October 3, 1890. — The President in the chair. Six persons present. 



Mr. Dwight read from his note-book an account of a night (Sept. 

 18-19, 1890) spent on Bedloes Island, New York Harbor, with 

 Messrs. Dutcber and Foster observing the migrating birds attracted 

 within the rays of light from the brilliantly illuminated Statue of 

 Liberty. About twenty species were noted among the several 

 hundred birds seen. Few struck with force enough to be killed, 

 the majority fluttering up and down the masonry so confused as to 

 allow themselves to be caught in the hand. 



October 17, 1890. — The President in the chair. Seven persons 

 present. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman presented a paper, on ' The North American 

 element in the West Indian Avifauna and the West Indian element 

 in the North American Avifauna.' Certain North American species 

 through a continued residence in the West Indies have become 

 differentiated from the parent forms ; the West Indian species which 

 visit North America, however, being migratory, show little or no 

 change from the island forms. 



November 7, 1890. — -The President in the chair. Eleven persons 

 present. 



Mr. Arthur H. Howell read a paper on the 'Birds of Eliot, Maine.' 

 The time covered was from August 4-14, 1890. 



Mr. Basil H. Dutcher, who had recently returned from the 

 Government Biological reconnaissance, under Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 to Idaho, gave a summary of what the expedition accomplished. A 



