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an abundant mammalian fauna, and the opportunities for 

 observation and photography are unusual. Mr. Johnson 

 availed himself of every chance, and as a result exhibited before 

 the Society a remarkable series of lantern-slides, especially of 

 bears and of the shy spermophiles and other rodents. 



October I4, 1913. — The President in the chair. Eight mem- 

 bers and one visitor present. In the absence of the Secretary, 

 the Chair appointed Mr. Rogers Secretary pro tern. 



A card from Mr. Abbott was read reporting his observation of 

 a female Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker {Picoides arcticus) 

 near Colby Pond, Saranac Lake, N. Y., September 24. A 

 letter also was read from him, in which, owing to his expected 

 absence from town for some months to come, he tendered his 

 resignation as Vice-President and as a member of the Com- 

 mittee on Bird-Banding. It was voted to lay the matter on the 

 table to await action at the Annual Meeting. 



As the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies was scheduled to fall on October 28, the date of 

 the next meeting of the Linnsean Society, it was voted that the 

 President should arrange that the evening session of the Asso- 

 ciation should be held jointly with our meeting, and that he 

 should procure a speaker therefor. 



Mr. Cleaves was asked for an informal report of the season's 

 work of the Committee on Bird-Banding. He said that some 

 7,000 bands had been issued to 150 persons and that about half 

 of these had been placed on birds of 149 species. Large lots of 

 bands had been supphed to Mr. Ekblau of the Crocker Land 

 Expedition and to Mr. Anderson of the Canadian Arctic 

 Expedition for use on such birds as were likely to reach civiliza- 

 tion in the winter. The treasury contained about S67.00, 

 bands were running short, and probably $100.00 would be 

 needed for bands for next season. Support had been erratic. 

 Mr. Cleaves gave several of the most interesting return records, 

 notably that of a Robin {Planesticus m. migratorius) banded 

 as a nestling at Mastic, L. I., and found a year later a quarter 

 of a mile from the same spot. It had apparently met its death 

 from getting its beak so tangled in a bit of string that it was 

 unable to open it or free itself. 



