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noted quite a number of species during the two weeks spent in 

 cruising in a steam launch between the Marquesas on the west 

 and Vaca Key on the east, the Great White Heron (Ardea oc- 

 cidentalis) being the most interesting species seen. 



February 16, 1905. Twenty-six members present. Clark J. 

 Peck read a paper on "The Overbrook Grackle Roost." (See 

 antca, p. 36.) 



A Snowy Owl captured recently at West Chester, Pa., was re- 

 ported by Mr. Stone, and Mr. Hunt stated that he had noticed 

 fresh Woodpecker holes in an orchard at Overbrook. 



March 2, 1905. Thirty-two members present. ^Ir. Bailj' 

 presented a number of excellent lantern slides illu.'^trating his 

 communication on " Work with the Camera at Pocono and Else- 

 where." A series of portraits of young Turkey Vultures, a 

 sitting Woodcock which permitted herself to be stroked with the 

 hand and a Chipping Sparrow feeding her young on the photo- 

 grapher's hand were among the best of the pictures. 



An epidemic in a Crow roost at Ogontz, Pa. , was described by 

 Mr. Harlow, who had counted thirty-five dead crows, while 

 blindness and irregular flight were noticed in others. 



Five Snow Buntings {Passerina nivalis) were reported by Mr. 

 Baily at St. Davids, and on a recent visit to Mt. Pocono large 

 numbers of the same species were observed. Dr. Trotter and 

 Mr. Palmer also reported a flock of about thirty-five at Swarth- 

 more. Pa., on February 23, and Mr. Harlow saw iifteen or 

 twenty at Oak Lane, Phila., on February 26. 



Mr. Lorrilliere reported Crackles {Quiscahig quiacula) at Coll- 

 ingdale, Delaware county, Pa., on February 23. 



March 16, 1905. Twenty-six members present. Dr. Trotter 

 read a paper entitled " Type Birds from Eastern Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey " in which he spoke of some twenty-nine species 

 of which the original type specimens had been discovered in the 

 neighborhood of Philadelphia, and commented on the exact 

 localities where some of them had been shot, and circumstances 

 connected with their capture. 



