184 
THE WILSON BULLETIN— September, 1922 
1887. It has often been said that Professor Baird did more to harmonize 
and coordinate the work of the ornithologists of his time than any one 
who lived before or after him. While stationed at Washington, during 
the period following the Civil War, he carried on a voluminous cor- 
respondence with observers throughout the land and built up an interest 
which culminated in the founding of the U. S. National Museum. This 
work was done largely before the advent of the numerous bird journals 
which sprang into existence throughout the eighties and early nineties. 
A permanent and oppropriate memorial will be decided upon by a com- 
mittee upon which The Wilson Club will be represented by Dr. Lynds 
Jones. 
The Outdoor League of America is the name of a very comprehensive 
organization recently launched at St. Louis by lovers of nature interested 
in its conservation and perpetuation. The subject of bird reservations 
was among the objects outlined for its activity. Invitations had been 
extended to all organizations interested in the great outdoors and The 
Wilson Club was ably represented by Mr. Otto Wildman of St. Louis. 
Messrs. Herbert L. Stoddard and George Shrosbree of the Milwaukee 
museum, spent the month of July on Bonaventure Island in the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence. They were engaged in securing material for new sea bird 
groups for the museum and in making motion pictures of the wealth of 
sea bird life to be found there. 
Attention is called to the announcement on another page of the com- 
ing annual meetings of the American Ornithologists’ Union and of The 
Wilson Club, in Chicago, during the week of October 23. It is hoped 
that W. O. C. members will turn out in record numbers. There will be 
no meeting during Christmas week as heretofore held. 
FIELD NOTES 
BREEDING OF THE BARN SWALLOW IN TENNESSEE 
The summer range of the Barn Swallow ( Hirundo erythrogastra) is 
not generally known to extend as far south as Tennessee. Various local 
lists from this state, as well as Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, 
and South Carolina, fail, as far as I am able to ascertain, to mention in- 
stances of its nesting. In Arkansas, Howell’s list mentions one old record 
of its having bred at Clinton, while in North Carolina Pearson mentions 
but three breeding records known for that state. In Kentucky, which 
lies north of and adjacent to Tennessee, I have knowledge of its being 
a fairly common breeder at several points. 
My own observations of its breeding in this state are confined to the 
immediate vicinity of Nashville, where perhaps a half dozen colonies 
are now, or have been, in existence. The Nashville area is essentially 
a farming district and the extensive meadows and large barns that go 
with stock raising would seem to be well adapted to the requirements of 
this species. However, the bird must be considered as relatively scarce. 
Two of the four colonies now in use consist of two or three pair, another 
