A letter from Dr. F. W. Langdon of Cincinnati, Ohio, told of the remarkable 

 find of three Cat Bird's [Galeoscoptes carolinensis) eggs in the stomach of a Swal- 

 low-tailed Kite {Elanoides forficalus), two of them unbroken. 



Mr. J. A. Allen read from a letter by Mr. Geo. K. Cherrie of the early ap- 

 pearance of North American migrants at San Jose, Costa Rica ; also from a paper 

 giving an account of the nesting in Costa Rica of several little known species, 

 among them Myiozetetes texensis and Elcenea pagana. A photograph of a nest 

 of Todirostrum cinereitm was exhibited. This species suspends its nest upon some 

 dead branch a few feet above a stream, constructing it so that it looks like a bit of 

 drift caught when the water was high. [This paper will appear in full in The Auk. ] 



Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., exhibited a typical series of the races of the Horned 

 Larks of North America (Otocoris), selected from about 1,200 skins sent to the 

 last meeting of the A. O. U., and pointed out their differences, showing at the 

 same time, by means of a map their geographical distribution. [For later studies 

 on the group, see Auk, Vol. VII, 1890, pp. 138-158.] 



January 17, 1890. — Dr. Edgar A. Mearns in the chair. Nine person present, 

 including Prof. John M. Stedman, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Mr. L. S. Foster read a translation of a communication from Senor Don F. 

 Gonzales Rubio of La Paz, Lower California. It was dated April 9, 1885, and 

 though the work of an untrained observer, it contained much information con- 

 cerning the birds of La Paz_and vicinity. 



Mr. Wm. Dutcher reported the capture of a Varied Thrush {Hesperocichla 

 ncevid) in a rabbit-trap, near Port Jefferson, Long Island, N. Y.,on Dec. 20, 1889. 



Mr. Dutcher also read a report, prepared at his request by Mr. M. B. Griffing 

 of Shelter Island, on the breeding of the Fish Hawk {Pandion haliattus carolin- 

 ensis) at the eastern end of Long Island. This report goes to Capt. Chas. E. 

 Bendire to be used in his forthcoming work on North American oology. Mr. 

 Griffing stated that this bird arrived about March 29, and left for the south about 

 October 25. Dr. Mearns said he had found the species breeding on pinnacles 

 of rock in Yellowstone Park. 



Mr. L. S. Foster spoke of the capture by Mr. W. W. Worthington, of an 

 Ipswich Sparrow (Ammodramus princeps), January 8, 1890, on the coast of 

 Georgia [recorded in Auk, Vol. VII, 1890, p. 211]. 



Prof. John M. Stedman, department of entomology, Cornell University, made a 

 few remarks upon the methods of study followed there, and gave some account of 

 the wire worm, and the life history of the vinegar eel. 



February 7. 1890. — The President in the chair. Eleven persons present. 



A letter from Dr. A. Girtanner of Switzerland to Mr. Foster mentioned the 

 occurrence there this winter of a Hawk Owl (Stirnia ulula), — a very rare visitor. 



Dr. Edgar A. Mearns read field notes from his journal kept in November, 1884, 

 during a trip of 600 miles in central Arizona, containing much of interest concern- 

 ing the birds and mammals of the region. 



A letter from Mr. E. E. Thompson reported Evening Grosbeaks {Coccothraustes 

 vespertind) at Toronto. 



Mr. J. A. Allen had recently examined the collection of the late John G. Bell. 

 It contained some 6000 bird skins and among them some taken on Audubon's 

 expedition up the Missouri River, in 1843, which Mr. Bell accompanied. 



