Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological C^lub for 1905' 



January 5, 1905. Annual Meeting. Thirty-one members 

 present. Mr. Frederick W. Stack was elected a Corresponding 

 member. The old officers were re-elected for the ensuing year, as 

 follows : President, Dr. Spencer Trotter ; Vice-President, Wil- 

 liam A. Shryock; Secretary, Wm. B. Evans; Treasurer, Stew- 

 ardson Brown. 



This being the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the 

 club, the Chairman Mr. Shryock gave a brief review of its his- 

 tory and IMessrs. Serrill, Pennock and Stone spoke of different 

 phases of the club's work and of early reminiscences. The 

 meeting then adjourned to the annual collation. 



A committee was appointed to consider the collecting of data 

 on the distribution, habits, etc., of the birds of Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey with a view to future publication. 



January 19, 1905. Twenty-four members present. Mr. 

 Chreswell J. Hunt was elected an Active member. 



Mr. Stone made a communication on "Immature Plumages, 

 what they are, and what they mean." 



In the discussion which followed Mr. Pennock stated that in 

 two instances of the breeding of the Marsh Hawk that had come 

 under his notice, the male bird was in neither case in the blue- 

 gray plumage. 



Mr. J. Harold Austin reported a Kingfisher near Lansdowne 

 January 14. 



February 2, 1905. Twenty-one members present. " A Trip 

 to the Florida Keys ' ' was the communication of the evening, 

 presented by Messrs. Stewardson Brown and Henry W. Fowler. 

 While birds were only incidental to other observations they 



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