BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
vol. viii. January, 1883. No. 1. 
THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON. 
BY DR. COUES. 
Since we sent out the last number of the Bulletin, a great many 
of our feathered friends have called upon us to pass the compli- 
ments of the season, congratulating us upon the close of the 
seventh volume of their chronicles, and encouraging us to hope 
for their distinguished patronage of the eighth fascicle of their 
Fasti. On looking over our autograph album we find a number 
of cards left by our New Year’s callers, so prettily engraved that 
we are sure our readers will be pleased to look over some of 
the lot.* 
One of the earliest was 
j| y. hiemalis , who said he 
had spent the summer 
; very pleasantly with his 
• family on the boundary 
line between the Canadian 
Alleghanian Faunas 
" which was run in 1871 
T by Mr. Allen, after some 
earlier preliminary sur- 
iTveys by Prof. Verrill. He 
= was to pass the winter in 
Washington, where he 
desired the Bulletin to 
be sent to him, addressed 
to the care of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, as he 
*Adviv. del. Edwin Sheppard, Philadelphiae ; xylogr. H. H. Nichols, Washington- 
op. : permissu superiorum, Estes et Lauriat, Boston. 
