made a few remarks upon the food habits of the squirrels of northern Europe ; 

 Mr. Thompson stated that he had seen the Red Squirrel [Sciurus hudsonius) eat- 

 ing fungus supposed to be poisonous ; Mr. Brewster had seen this animal eating 

 mushrooms ; and Dr. Morris and Mr. Higgins had seen the Gray Squirrel 

 {Sciurus carolinensis) do the same. Mr. Brewster also related how he had known 

 both the Red Squirrel and the Chipmunk ( Tamias striatus) to occasionally pounce 

 upon and carry off wounded birds. 



December 6, 18S9. — The Vice-President in the chair. Twenty-one persons 

 present. 



Mr. Wm. Dutcher exhibited a fine specimen of the Red-billed Hill Tit [Liothrix 

 lute a) of India, recently shot on Long Island, N. Y. Its appearance did not in- 

 dicate a cage bird, and it might have been added to the list of recorded extra- 

 limital species if Mr. Jenness Richardson had not recollected that a lot of forty 

 of this species had been imported last spring by a New York bird-fancier. Most 

 likely this bird escaped, and has been enjoying its freedom all summer, which 

 would account for its fresh appearance. This is a good illustration of how other 

 strange captures might be accounted for. 



Mr. E. T. Adney presented a paper on ' Bird Names of the Milicetes.' As he 

 had spent eighteen months in contact with this Indian tribe, he was well qualified 

 to do justice to the pronunciation and derivation of names applied to familiar 

 birds. The Milicetes live in New Brunswick, Canada, and have names for about 

 eighty species of birds, distinguishing, as might be expected, only those that are 

 prominent by habit, by color, or more particularly perhaps by song. Large 

 birds, especially water-fowl, are known by the general name of ' seeps,' and 

 small ones are called 'seepsis. ' Some species have several names applied to them, 

 and when in imitation of their notes, the Indian representation is excellent. In 

 some cases the original name has been replaced by one imitating the English or 

 French word in use by the white settlers of the region. No work has ever been 

 published on the dialect spoken by the Milicetes, so that when Mr. Adney pub- 

 lishes his paper in full, as it is his purpose to do, it will be of interest not only to 

 the ornithologist, but to the philologist as well. 



Mr. Alfred Marshall read a paper on the nests and eggs secured by him on 

 Long Island, N. Y., during several past seasons. The list includes forty-eight 

 species with full data of each set taken. 



Mr. Oscar Sissenere read an interesting paper on the Lemming (A/yodes lem- 

 mus) of Norway. 



It is much to be regretted that the manuscript of this paper has been acci- 

 dentally destroyed, as it was the purpose of the Society to publish it in full. 

 It was descriptive of a collecting trip made in 1879 by the writer and four 

 others to one of the snow peaks of the central plateau region of Norway . The 

 party met with a number of species of birds, a herd of reindeer, and a colony of 

 lemmings, and the account of the excursion was both instructive and entertaining. 



Mr. Wm. Dutcher read an extended paper entitled 'A Winter Trip to Mon- 

 tauk.' [Published in abstract in ' Forest and Stream,' April 3, 1890, p. 206.] 



December 20, 1889. — The Vice-President in the chair. Eight persons present. 



Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., made extended remarks upon fifty-five species of 

 birds observed by him at Digby, Nova Scotia, during the latter part of August, 1886. 



