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the roll of membership was increased by the election, as “ Cor- 
responding Members,” of many of the younger ornithologists 
residing in other parts of the United States. 
During the winter of 1875 and 1876 the interest in the 
Club seemed to have somewhat abated, doubtless in great part 
owing to the removal of several of its more active members 
to distant parts of the country, the regular attendance at the 
meetings becoming mainly limited to the few original founders 
of the Club. In March, 1876, it was decided to make an 
effort to increase the resident membership, and to endeavor 
to awaken anew the interest of all the members, both resident 
and corresponding. Hence the matter of publishing a Bul- 
letin was again seriously considered. The question being 
decided affirmatively, the first number of the Bulletin was 
issued May 6, 1876, consisting of twenty-eiglit octavo pages 
and a colored plate. Heretofore the Club had pursued the 
policy of excluding professional ornithologists, rather, how- 
ever, from a feeling of modesty than from any motive of ex- 
clusiveness. Eealizing, however, that in order to establish the 
Bulletin on "a firm basis, it was necessary to secure all pos- 
(new series of Amer. Sports.), Vol. VI, p. 50. [Based on observations made at * 
Lake TJmbagog, Me.] 
10. Ornithological Notes from Portland, Me. By N. C. Brown (Cor. 
Memb.). Rod and Gun, Vol. VI, p. 65, May 8, 1875. [On the malformation 
of the bill in a specimen of Plectrophanes nivalis, and a record of the capture of 
Passerculus princeps at Portland, and of Herodias egretta in Scarborough, Me.] 
11. The Burrowing Owl in Massachusetts. By Ruthven Deane. Rod and 
Gun, Vol. VI, p. 97, May 15, 1875. [Record of the capture of a specimen of 
Speotyto cunicularia var. hypogoea at Newburyport, Mass,] 
12. Notes on the Habits of Certain Thrushes. By C. C. Abbott, M. D. 
(Cor. Memb,). Rod and Gun, Vol. VI, p, 86, May 8, 1875. [Notes on Turdus 
Pallasi, T. swainsoni, and T. fuscescens, as observed at Trenton, N. J.] 
13. Partial List of the Summer Birds of Kanawha County, West Virginia ; 
with Annotations. By W. D. Scott. Proc, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XV, 
pp. 219-230, Oct. 1872. [A list of eighty-six species, with notes.] 
14. Some Observations on the Birds of Ritchie County, West Virginia. By 
Wm, Brewster. Ann. Lyc. Nat, Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 129-146, June, 
1875. [An annotated list of one hundred species.] 
15. Some Additional Light on the so-called Sterna portlandica, Ridgway. 
By Wm. Brewster. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 201-207, 
Nov. 1875. [Its probable identity with S. macrura maintained.] 
