DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 63 



December 6, 1906. Twenty-nine members present. 



Mr. ytone read a paper received from Mr. Richard F. Miller, 

 giving an account of the occurrence of the Lapland Longspur 

 (Calcarhts lapponicus) in the Delaware Valley. The first 

 record was a specimen obtained in a market in Philadelphia 

 by John Cassin in January, 1849. The next specimen that 

 we know of was secured by C. D. Wood from a flock of Snow 

 Buntings at League Island, Phila., about 1864. In 1895 four 

 were observed: two at Princeton, N. J., February 13, one of 

 which was shot, one shot by Isaac Ruff on the New Jersey 

 shore of the Delaware opposite Tinicum, February 21, and 

 another obtained near Salem, N. J., by Henry Warrington, 

 December 28. The last was associated with Horned Larks, 

 the first two with Snow Buntings. Mr. Miller recorded a 

 seventh specimen seen in a field at Harrowgate, Phila., No- 

 vember 22, 1904. "It was alone, but evidently had come 

 south with a flock of Titlarks that were nearby. Unlike the 

 wild Titlarks, it allowed me to approach within twenty-five 

 feet and less as it stalked silently about, furtively watching me 

 before taking wing. When flushed it flew only a few rods, 

 alighting in the short grass and running restlessly about like a 

 Robin. It was thus flushed several times, as I wished to be 

 fully convinced of its identity before shooting it. At the dis- 

 charge of the gun it arose with a startled cry, and with rapidly 

 vibrating wings it mounted higher and higher in the air, occa- 

 sionally uttering a one-syllable alarm-cry, till it was soon a 

 mere speck in the sk}', and then disappeared from sight." 



Mr. Miller was of the opinion that if flocks of Horned Larks 

 were carefully examined more Longspurs might come to light, 

 as their presence among these birds would be much lees readily 

 detected than among the Snow Buntings. 



Mr. Harlow exhibited a Migrant Shrike (Lanhis ludovidanus 

 migrans) obtained at Oak Lane, Phila., December 1, 1906, and 

 recorded a Saw-whet Owl {Cryptoglaux acadicus) taken in Pike 

 County, October 30. Mr. Spaeth reported two of the latter 

 species shot at Cape May Point, N. J., November 80. Mr. 

 Hunt mentioned a winter record for the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



