. Bird lore . active,as well as educational, carefulnotes of each trip being securedby the historian appointed forthe day. These are read at thefollowing open meeting of the Association, after which they are printedand filed with the Library records. The trip of August 3 to the Farallon Islands was of more than passing in-terest. These Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean, 25 miles off the Golden Gate,and are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. They are wellknown as of special ornithological interest, being the nesting-place for ocean-going birds and teeming with bird-life in the
. Bird lore . active,as well as educational, carefulnotes of each trip being securedby the historian appointed forthe day. These are read at thefollowing open meeting of the Association, after which they are printedand filed with the Library records. The trip of August 3 to the Farallon Islands was of more than passing in-terest. These Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean, 25 miles off the Golden Gate,and are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. They are wellknown as of special ornithological interest, being the nesting-place for ocean-going birds and teeming with bird-life in the breeding-season, and once being afavorite haunt for egg-poachers, as recorded in the encyclopedias. The FederalGovernment prohibits visitors to the Islands, but, in recognition of the Associa-tions work, honored it as a special guest, taking us to and from the light-house tender. It seemed to the members of the Association that the super-abundance of Western Gulls was probably a factor in the evidently steady. CHASE LITTLEJOHN AND AMY E. GUNNINTERVIEWING A BABY PUFFIN 76 Bird - Lore decrease of the once amazingly abundant Mnrre population, and that measuresfor lessening the Gull myriads might be advisable. The Association has alsoasked the Federal authorities to extend the closed season on the Islands to theend of August, as many young birds and some brooding ones were evidentlydisturbed and endangered by our visit on August 3. We subscribe, through theNational Association, for the magazine, Bird-Lore, which we place in the handsof every member.—C. B. Lastreto, President. The Bird Club of Long Island.—During the past year the Club hasacquired an additional membership of 159—138 being annual subscribers and21 life members. This gives the Club a total enrollment of 535, and thuspresents a very satisfactory increase over the membership list of the previousyear. It may be noted also that the Club is represented in no less than fifty-four localities on Long Island, and has th
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