April 20, 1892. — Mr. L. S. Foster in the chair. Five 

 members and two visitors present. 



Mr. Arthur H. Howell read a paper entitled "Some 

 Holiday Collecting Trips." It treated in a familiar way of 

 two trips, made by the writer on May 30, 1889 and 1890, 

 respectively, to the central portion of Long Island. 



The Pine Warbler (Dendroica vigor sii) is a characteristic 

 bird of the locality, arriving early in April and remaining 

 till October. Mr. Howell had been unsuccessful in finding 

 its nest, and queried as to the date of nesting. Mr. Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr., said that in Massachusetts they breed early in 

 May, and the nest is built in the topmost boughs of a pine. 



Mr. Howell had found, in 1889, a nest of the Long-eared 

 Owl (Asio wilsonianus) 25 feet from the ground in a small 

 pine. It was a deserted squirrel's nest, much flattened out, 

 and contained three downy young of different ages. 



A nest of the Hairy Woodpecker (Dry ob cites villosus) 

 was found in a hole two and one-half feet from the ground 

 in a living oak. It contained four young, two males and 

 two females. 



Nests of the Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbida) contain- 

 ing respectively, two and six eggs, were recorded. [See 

 "Ornithologist and Oologist," March and April, 1893.] 



Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., stated that in New Jersey he 

 had found nests of the Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macrourd) 

 on the Norway spruce, white pine, and apple trees, in the 

 near vicinity of houses ; and in Kansas had found two 

 nests in the open prairie. 



Mr. B. H. Dutcher had found on Snake River, Idaho, 

 that the bird invariably nested on the ground under the 

 sage brush, although there were wooded tracts that it might 

 have occupied ; in the East he had found the nests in 

 scrub-oaks. He stated that the bird is found from sea- 

 level to ten thousand feet altitude. 



Several of the members made reports of the migrant birds 

 they had observed, which tended to show that the migration 

 was rather late, and the migrants not very numerous. 



