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[December, 1897], Vol 2. No 6., by Various

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Title: Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [December, 1897], Vol 2. No 6.

Author: Various

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Language: English

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BIRDS

A MONTHLY SERIAL

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY

DESIGNED TO PROMOTE

KNOWLEDGE OF BIRD-LIFE

VOLUME II.

CHICAGO.
NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1897
BY
NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING CO.
CHICAGO.

BIRDS.
ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY
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VOL. II. DECEMBER, 1897. NO. 6
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THE ORNITHOLOGICAL CONGRESS.

We had the pleasure of attending the Fifteenth Congress of the American
Ornithologists' Union, which met and held its three days annual session
in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, November 9-11,
1897. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, of the Department of Agriculture, Washington
D.C., presided, and there were present about one hundred and fifty of
the members, resident in nearly all the states of the Union.

The first paper read was one prepared by J. C. Merrill, entitled "In
Memoriam: Charles Emil Bendire." The character, accomplishments, and
achievements of the deceased, whose valuable work in biographizing
American birds is so well known to those interested in ornithology,
were referred to in so appropriate a manner that the paper, though not
elaborate as it is to be hoped it may ultimately be made, will no doubt
be published for general circulation. Major Bendire's services to
American ornithology are of indisputable value, and his untimely death
eclipsed to some extent, possibly wholly, the conclusion of a series of