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The unusual abundance of the Cape Msij Warbler in the fall 

 migration this year was commented upon by several members. 



Dr. Bishop told of the work 'inaugurated this past season by 

 the New Haven Ornithological Club in banding nestling birds, 

 and suggested that the members of the I.innsean Society co- 

 operate in this work next spring. Dr. Dwight supplemented Dr. 

 Bishop's remarks, pointing out the field for valuable information 

 relative to the course and extent of the travels of individual birds, 

 which an extended adoption of tagging work would probably 

 open to ornithological science. 



Dr. Bishop then presented the first paper of the evening, 

 which was entitled "The Magdalen Islands and Bird Rocks 

 Revisited." He told of a visit made by him to the islands this 

 summer, covering August and the first half of September, and 

 compared the birds seen with those noted on his previous visit 

 in 1887, commenting upon the entire absence of some species 

 formerly common, while others were much more abundant than 

 they were found twenty-one years ago. 



Prof. Trowbridge, in the discussion following the reading of 

 the paper, spoke of the progressive diminution in the numbers 

 of the Caspian Tern {Sterna caspia) noted on his three visits 

 to the Magdalen Islands in 1889, 1894, and 1899, respectively. 

 Dr. Bishop said that none were seen by him this year. 



Dr. Dwight presented the second paper of the evening, entitled 

 ''Some Notes on the Birds of the North Shore of the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence." He told of his summer visits to Tadousac, 

 Quebec, for the past eighteen years, and called attention to the 

 changes in the species seen during that period. 



November 10, 1908. — The Secretary in the chair. Forty- 

 eight members and visitors present. 



Dr. Z. L. Leonard was elected a resident member of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Ludlow Griscom reported seeing at Watch Hill, R. I., 

 on July 4, 1908, three Old Squaws {Harelda hyemalis) and two 

 White-winged Scoters {Oidemia deglandi) — all evidently ''left- 

 overs" from the winter season — and also large numbers of 

 Common Terns {Sterna hirundo) and a few Roseate Terns 

 {Sterna dougalli) , which must have been nesting not far away. 



