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 212 Bird- Lore The Twenty -fourth Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union The twenty-fourth Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union was held in Washington, D. C, November 12- 15, 1906. Twenty-four Fellows were pres- ent, a number exceeded on only one occa- sion, and there was a large attendance of members and associates. At the business meeting held on the even- ing of November 12, the officers of the pre- ceding year were reelected ; Mr. W. L. Sclater, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was elected to Corresponding Fellowship, and Waldron DeWitt Miller, of New York City, and Arthur T. Wayne, of Charleston, South Carolina, were elected members. An amendment to the constitution was passed increasing the limit of the class of Members from seventy-five to one hundred. The public sessions of the Congress were held in the lecture room of the United States National Museum, where the papers included in the appended program were presented. Most noteworthy among these papers were Mr. Nelson's account of his and Mr. Gold- man's remarkable horseback journey of 2, 500 miles in Lower Calfornia, and Mr. Finley's description of his surprising experiences with a pair of Condors whose nest was found near Pasadena, California, in the spring of 1906. Mr. Finley exhibited a series of thrill- ing photographs, taken by Mr. Bohlman and himself, some of which showed both adult Condors at arm's length. A study of the young Condor was made from the time of its hatching until it had assumed its flight plumage. Of special interest, also, were the an- nouncements of the discovery of the breed- ing of Bachman's Warbler in Kentucky by Embody, and in South Carolina by Wayne. As usual, the social features of the Con- gress were most enjoyable. A luncheon was served each day at the public session by the Washington members of the A. O. U. and members of the District of Columbia Audu- bon Society, and the annual dinner of the Union, attended by about one hundred guests, was held at the Riggs House on the evening of November 12. PROGRAM 'A Plea for the Killdeer,' William Dutcher ; 'Where Wild Birds Sleep,' Irene G. Wheelock; 'Some Experiments with Nesting Boxes' (illustrated with lantern- slides), E. H. Forbush ; 'Ornithological Notes from the West' (illustrated with lan- tern-slides), Frank M. Chapman; 'The Home Life of the California Condor' (illus- trated with lantern-slides by H. T. Bohl- man and W. L. Finley), W. L. Finley; ' Notes on the Early Life of Loon Chicks,' C. William Beebe ; 'The Effects of Intense Humidity on the Colors of Zonotrichia, Hylocichla and Scardafel/a,' C. William Beebe; ' The Life Zones of New York State as Determined by its Avifauna (illustrated with lantern-slides), E. Howard Eaton; ' The Habits of a Young California Con- dor ' (illustrated with lantern-slides by H. T. Bohlman and W. L. Finley), W. L. Finley; 'Exhibition of Lantern Slides/ William L. Baily; 'A Review of Genus Junco,' Jonathan Dwight, Jr.; 'Summer Bird Life of the Newark, New Jersey, Marshes,' Clinton G. Abbott; 'The Status of the Rio Grande Seedeater,' J. A. Allen; ' On Horseback Through the Deserts of Lower California ' (illustrated with lantern- slides*, E. W. Nelson; 'Imitation in Bird Music — A Study of Wood Thrushes,' Henry Oldys ; ' Interesting Bird Songs Noted in 1906,' Henry Oldys; ' Present Conditions- of Gull and Tern Colonies on the Atlantic Coast,' William Dutcher and B. S. Bow- dish ; On the Eastern Forms of Geothlypis trichas, Frank M. Chapman; 'Delaware Valley Wild Fowl — Past and Present,' S. N. Rhoads; ' Bachman Warbler Breeding in Logan County, Kentucky,' G. E. Em- body; 'The Nest and Eggs of Bachman Warbler, taken near Charleston, S C./ Arthur T. Wayne; 'A Question of Right Nomenclature,' William Palmer ; 'A Species or a Subspecies? ' William Palmer; 'Trails of a Naturalist in Nevada ' (illustrated with lantern-slides), H. C. Oberholser; 'The Wood Thrush of the Glen,' Jane L. Hine; 'Some North Carolina Birds '( illustrated with Iantern-slidesl, by T. Gilbert Pear- son.