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consumption is now making great ravages among the Pata- 

 gonian Indians and that in comparatively few years the race is 

 certain to be extinct. 



April 11, 1905. — The President in the chair. Ninety-two 

 members and visitors present. 



The Auditing Committee reported that the Treasurer's 

 accounts had been examined and found correct. 



Mr. C. G. Abbott presented a paper entitled '^A Bird-Lover 

 in the Scottish Highlands.'^ It treated of a three weeks vacation 

 in the northern part of Scotland, the Orkney and the Shetland 

 Islands, taken during the summer of 1902. About one hundred 

 lantern slides were exhibited, mostly illustrating the bird-life 

 of the region. Several of the slides showed something of the 

 great seabird colony on the island of Handa, off the coast of 

 Sutherland. 



April 25, 1905. — The Vice-President in the chair. Seventy- 

 two members and visitors present. 



The name of Mr. Maunsell S. Crosby of New York City 

 was proposed by the Secretary for resident membership. 



Mr. C. G. Abbott recorded finding in Central Park the nest 

 of a Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) on April 23 with young 

 already hatched. 



The first paper of the evening was by Mr. C. William Beebe, 

 entitled "A Naturalist's Camping Trip in Old Mexico." Many 

 valuable observations and interesting anecdotes were recorded, 

 and a number of photographs and bird-skins were exhibited. 

 (The material has since been incorporated in Mr. Beebe's 

 published volume, ''Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico.") 



The second part of the evening's programme was an exhibi- 

 tion of lantern slides by Mr. Wm. Dutcher. Among them 

 were some new views of the Pelican colony on Pelican Island, 

 Indian River, Fla., made by jMr. Dutcher during a recent 

 visit, also pictures of Scaup Ducks which with protection 

 become wonderfully tame at Tampa. 



May 9, 1905. — The President in the chair. Seventy mem- 



