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Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club 



rain and made for a piece of woods about a quarter of a mile away. Well, I 

 saw a lot of birds that interested me; found two nests of the Red-eve. one of 

 the Yellow-throated Vireo and one of the Scarlet Tanager when a familiar 

 hum caught my ear. and looking up I saw my Hummer's nest just over my 

 head. In two minutes I had the eggs carefully wrapped up and in my col- 



Nest and Eggs of the Ruby-Throated Humming Bird 

 Selected from a series in the collection of J. Warren Jacobs. 



lection box and sat on the limb watching the bird as it hummed the most 

 pleasing tune I then thought I had ever heard. The nest was in a small 

 oak and like the other was saddled on a horizontal limb about thirty feet up 

 and five feet out on the branch. 



Moral : — Hunt in your own backyard and don't go all over the county 

 for the nest of a common resident. By your own back yard I mean some 

 good piece of woods you are thoroughly familiar with. 



Detroit, Mich Philip E. Moody, M. D. 



MINUTES OF THE CLUB MEETINGS. 



August 7th. — Meeting held at the Detroit Museum of Art. Vice-Presi- 

 dent Moody in the chair. "The Passenger Pigeon in the Early Days of 

 Michigan," by J. B. Purdv. "Two Winged Robbers," by W. C. Wood. "The 

 Cardinal Grosbeak," by T. Jefferson Butler, were presented. Dr. P. E. 

 Moody spoke of finding five broods of young of the Screech Owl within a 

 radius of a mile in Oakland County, Mich. Adjourned. 



September 4th.— Meeting held at the Detroit Museum of Art. "Nesting 

 of the Piping Plover on Big Shanty Island. Michigan, 1903," and "Meganscr 

 dmeneanus Nesting at Saginaw Bay, Michigan, iox>2-'03," by E. Arnold, and 

 "The Song of a Nest Robber," by J. C. Wood, were presented. L. J. Eppin- 

 ger spoke of some birds he had received for mounting, and A. W. Blain, Jr., 

 gave notes on some common birds. After a social time the meeting adjourned. 



Frederick C Hubel, Sec'y. pro tern. 



