Mr. Chapman stated that the Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronala) was now- 

 abundant at Englewood, N. J., and this seems to be the case each winter when 

 the crop of bay-berries has been a good one. 



Mr. Arthur H. Howell read a paper on birds observed at Lake Grove, Long 

 Island, N. Y., during July, August and September, 1889. Sixty-two species 

 were enumerated with full notes upon each. 



Mr. L. S. Foster read a newspaper clipping showing the number of animals on 

 which bounties had been paid in Suffolk Co., Long Island, during eleven months 

 of 1889. The figures are, woodchucks 3,427, opossums 4,673, raccoons 123, 

 minks 165, and weasels 354. 



In discussing the incubation of eggs, Mr. Thompson stated that the covering up 

 with vegetable matter of the eggs of grebes did not, as is popularly supposed, 

 produce heat. 



January 3, 1890. — The President in the chair. Eleven persons present. 



Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., commented upon a list of 119 species of birds 

 observed near the Strait of Mackinaw, Michigan, during a trip made in May, 



1888, with Mr. Wm. Brewster. The first portion of this paper was read at the 

 last meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, the annotated part of the list 

 having been then omitted. 



Mr. L. S. Foster presented some facts about the Snowy Owl [Nyctea nyctea), 

 as well as other owls, hawks, etc., derived from letters recently received. One 

 from Mr. Thomas Mc II wraith of Hamilton, Canada, under date of December 30, 



1889, is of interest, taken in connection with the numerous later records of the 

 Evening Grosbeak [Coccothraustes vespertind), in New England the past winter, 

 and is here quoted in part. 



' On the 19th of the present month (December 1889), a friend sent me two female 

 Evening Grosbeaks which he had shot on the north shore of Hamilton Bay. The 

 banks there are steep and rise fifty feet above the water; they are much cut up 

 with gullies, and grown over with sumachs, wild vines and stunted red cedars. I 

 visited the place in the afternoon but failed to see birds of any kind save ducks. 

 On the 23rd, a junior member of my family came home for his holidays and 

 readily took up the trail of the grosbeaks. Taking a canoe he started at the 

 west end of the bay and carefully examined the north shore till he finally came on 

 the flock, about twenty in number, in one of the sheltered gullies, feeding on the 

 berries of the red cedar, the crop of which this season is unusually large. Males 

 and females were there in about equal numbers, the former being very handsome 

 birds, richer and darker in plumage than some summer specimens which I have 

 seen. Whether there has been a general migration of this species to this part of 

 Ontario remains to be seen, but most likely, I think, this is an isolated flock car- 

 ried hither by the recent gales from the northwest, or led on by a daring leader 

 ambitious of exploring new territory. I saw them last on the 25 th feeding as 

 usual on the cedar berries, ejecting the pulpy part and using only the little white 

 seeds.' 



In another part of his letter Mr. Mcllwraith suggests the theory that when a fall 

 is open and mild, the birds stay later than usual and eat up the food that the 

 winter birds depend upon, and in consequence the latter are obliged to go farther 

 south than is their custom. 



