Mr. H. W. Congdon noted the appearance in Battery 

 Park, New York City, on May 9, 1898, of a Mockingbird 

 (Mimus polyglottos). He had seen there during this migra- 

 tion several Brown Thrashers {Harporhynchus rufus), Che- 

 winks (Pipilo erythrophthalimis), and Hooded Warblers 

 {Wilsonia mitrata). 



Mr. S. H. Chubb reported birds as abundant, but late in 

 arrival. The great May flight in Central Park occurred on 

 May 17. 



Mr. A. H. Helme stated that the great flight at Millers 

 Place, Long Island, N. Y., w^as on May 16, and that he had 

 discovered at this time a nest with two fresh eggs of Coop- 

 er's Hawk (Accipzter cooperi). 



Dr. W. C. Braislin reported the capture of five Caspian 

 Terns {Sterna ca.spia) on Long Island, May 12, 1898. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman had observed a Mourning Warbler 

 {GeotJilypis Philadelphia) at Englewood, N. J., on May 22, 

 ,1898. 



October 1 1, 1898. — The President in the chair. Ten mem- 

 bers and nine visitors present. 



Mr. L. S. Foster exhibited a skin of the Black-capped 

 Petrel (A^strelata hasitata) taken on Seneca River, Cayuga 

 County, N. Y., early in September, 1893. Dr. J. A. Allen 

 referred to two other hitherto unpublished records for this 

 species. [See The Auk, Vol. XVI., 1899, p. 75.] 



Mr. William Dutcher reported that he had seen thousands 

 of Wilson's Petrels (Oceanites oce aniens) on July 20, 1898, 

 in lower New York Bay, attracted by the " chum " em- 

 ployed by fishermen in catching bluefish. 



He also exhibited a series of skins of the Red Phalarope 

 (Crymophilus fulicanus). Ten of these, eight males and 

 two females, struck Montauk Light, night of April 30. He 

 also spoke of the distribution, relative abundance, and 

 changes of plumage of the three North American species 

 of Phalaropes. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman stated that he had seen at sea, about 

 one hundred miles east of Virginia, hundreds of thousands 



