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Museum Bulletin 



NOTICE TO MEMBERS. 



To each member whose dues have been paid for the fiscal 

 year 1915-16 a certification card has been transmitted. This 

 should be signed and retained as a certificate that the holder of 

 the card is entitled, to all the privileges of membership in the 

 Association. Certain special notices and invitations, and other 

 privileges, may be restricted to the holder, of such cards. They 

 may also serve as identification cards, whenever identification by 

 signature may be advisable or necessary. 



The Britton cottage, under the resident custcdianship of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Stoddard, is now open for the inspec- 

 tion of members and visitors. Members who present certification 

 cards are entitled to free admission to the house and grounds 

 at all reasonable hours. To others, and to casual visitors, an 

 entrance fee of 25 cents will be charged. 



An interesting loan exhibit of sculpture has recently been 

 installed in the museum by a special committee consisting of Dr. 

 J. Q. Adams, honorary curator of the department of Arts and An- 

 tiquities, Mr. Robert W. Gardner and Mr. Carl E. Tefft. A full 

 account of the exhibit will be printed in the August number of 

 the Bulletin. 



The undersigned, while on vacation during the latter part 

 of June, devoted his energies, as usual, chiefly to the study and 

 photography of wild bird life. A brief trip was made to the 

 Newark, New Jersey, marshes where there are certain birds not 

 to be found breeding elsewhere within a considerable radius of 

 New York City. The remaining time was spent at Cape Cod, 

 Mass., principally in Falmouth township. In all, fifty-five differ- 

 ent species of birds were noted there, the rarest being a breeding 

 pair of olive-sided flycatchers (Nuttallornis borealis Swains)— not 

 generally supposed to be found nesting in Massachusetts except 

 in the northern, mountainous portion of the state. The nests of 



