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make being a weak nasal quack, uttered six or seven times in quick 

 succession, this is particularity the case with the male when you ap- 

 proach the vicinity of the nest. 



The young are conducted to the shore soon after they are hatched, 

 and if suddenly surprised take to the water and swim and dive with 

 the greatest ease. 



The Phalaropcs live on the best of terms with their neighbors, and 

 no birds evince more heartfelt sympathy for the misfortune of a fellow 

 wader than these do. 



They congregate in considerable flocks in the latter part of July, 

 when the young are fully fledged. They seldom swim as P. hyperbor- 

 eus does, though I have often seen them associated with these birds 

 some distance from shore, but never more than two, or three under 

 such circumstances, and these were birds (I conjecture) which had be- 

 come detached from the main flock of its own species and sought the 



society of its near relative. 



A. L. Kumlien. 

 Univ. of Wis. , Madison, Wisconsin. 



Potomac-Side Naturalists' Club. 



June 5 tli, 1876, (206th meeting.) 



Mr. Charles B. Beckham was elected a member. 



Mr. Ward exhibited specimens of Myricacerifera, Pyrola chlorantha, 

 and other plants. 



The Secretary exhibited specimens of insects, one found destroying 

 the foliage of the elm, pronounced by Mr. .Dodge to be Galeruca cal- 

 mariensis, the elm beetle, the other attacking the petals of roses. 



The Secretary then read a paper upon a collection of plants made by 

 Dr. Coues along the line of the Northern Boundary Survey, during the 

 summers of 1873-74, supplemented by a catalogue of plants collected 

 by the British Boundary Commission. 



The whole number of species is 686, which number would be largely 

 increased had collections been made during the months of May and 

 June. 



Of these, 390 are common at the East, 80 are distinctly Western, 

 and 215 are confined to the region of the plains and the Rocky 



