DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 61 



October ^, 1906. Twenty-five members present. 



Mr. Harlow read a paper on the breeding of the Bobolink in 

 the vicinity of Croydon, Bucks Co., Pa. He had observed 

 about eight pairs of the birds within a radius of about a mile, 

 and saw some of them practically everj' day from June 24 to 

 July 26. Diligent search failed to discover the exact breeding- 

 places, but on June 29 he found several young birds which were 

 obviously only a few days out of the nest. 



Mr. Stone reported several hundred birds killed on the tower 

 of the City Hall on the night of August 28. While great nnui- 

 bers had been picked up before he visited the building he saw 

 and identified the following: Redstart 47, Maryland Yellow- 

 throat 38, Black-and White Warbler 27, Reedbird 26, Ovenbird 

 16, Small-billed Water Thrush 8, Kingbird 2, Yellow-breasted 

 Chat 2, and one each of the following: Kighthawk, Alder Fly- 

 catcher, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Purple Finch, Red- 

 ej'ed Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Parula 

 Warbler, and Veery. The platform on the tower where the 

 lights are located, some 500 feet from the ground, was white 

 with the excreta of the birds that had rested there, and as one 

 looked over the railing dead birds could be seen lodged on the 

 cornices and ledges that project from the tower at various points 

 below. JIany live birds had also found their waj- into the 

 uppermost story of the City Hall which has open passage-ways 

 leading to the main roof. 



The death of Mrs. Edward Robins on July 6, 1906, was an- 

 nounced and the following minute adopted: 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club has heard with deep 

 regret of the death of Mrs. Edward Robins and desires to record 

 its sense of the loss that the cause of bird-protection has suffered 

 in the death of so earnest a worker, and also to express its ap- 

 preciation of ^Irs. Robins' labors in furthering popular interest 

 in birds and bird study. 



October 18, 1906. Twenty-two members present. 

 Mr. Palmer read a paper on a "Robin and Crackle Roost 

 near Concordville, Pa." (See antea, p. 26). 



The following amendments to the By-Laws were adopted: 



