solitarius is supposed to breed, as it is present all the year. The 

 Mallard, the Ruddy and the Muscovy are common ducks 



May 20, 1 89 1. — The President in the Chair. Ten members and 

 four visitors present. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman described his recent trip to Corpus Christi, 

 Texas, where he remained five weeks, and recorded 190 species of 

 birds. He secured a series of skins of the Wood Rat {Neotoma 

 micropus) which he found breeding in the chaparral and also near the 

 bushes in the open prairie. The nests had from two to five openings. 

 [See Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. iii, pp. 315-328. J 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott presented an account of a trip made to the 

 Island of Jamaica, November, 1890, to April, 1891. [Auk, viii, 

 1891, pp. 249, et seq.] 



Dr. C. S. Allen gave an account of his recent experiences at Oak 

 Lodge, Fla., and of his journey to that point. Near there he 

 observed a colony of Pelicans (Pelecanus fuscus) and secured some 

 photographs of them, as well as of their nests and eggs. He exhibited 

 the skin of a diamond-backed rattlesnake shot near there by Mr. Chas. 

 F. Latham, in November, 1890. The snake before skinning 

 measured eight feet, five inches in length, and fifteen inches in 

 circumference. 



Mr. Chapman spoke of a rattler eight feet, nine inches long, killed 

 by Mr. J. H. Norton of Jacksonville, Fla. 



Mr. A. H. Howell read a list of the spring migrants, with the dates 

 of arrival, that he had observed the past season near Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott remarked that warblers were numerous at Po- 

 cantico, N. Y„ this spring. He had taken Helminthophila leuco- 

 bronchialis and an H. pinus with a dusky throat, approaching H. 

 lawrencei. 



Mr. B. H. Dutcher read a list of birds received from the keeper of 

 Fire Island Lighthouse, L. I., the birds, 231 in number, having been 

 killed during the early morning hours of May 19, 1*891. The list 

 included twenty species; Geothlypis trie has was represented by 115 

 individuals, and Seiurus noveboracensis by 42. 



October 7, 1891. — The President in the chair. Nine members and 

 one visitor present. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman presented a paper entitled " Remarks on the 

 Grackles of the sub-genus Quiscalus." [Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. iv, pp. 1-20.] 



