DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 83 



March 21, 1907. Twenty-five members present. Mr. Hunt 

 described two trips made during the past summer, one to Lake 

 Sebago, Maine, and the other a canoe vo3'age up tlie Rancocas 

 Creek, N. J., and commented upon the bird life of the two 

 regions. 



Mr. Relm spoke of the distribution, history and relative 

 abundance of West Indian Parrots and the extinction of several 

 species. 



April 4, 1907. Twenty-five members present. Mr. Stone 

 gave a talk upon the winter homes of our commoner birds and 

 their probable lines of migration. 



A letter from Mr. Harlow described the continued presence 

 of a pair of Short-eared Owls {Asio accipitrmiis) at Edge Hill 

 and their mating; all efforts to discover a nest failed. 



April 18, 1907. Twenty-six members present. A letter was 

 read announcing the death of Mr. Fredk. N. Owen, an Associ- 

 ate, December 27, 1905. Mr. Owen had been absent from the 

 city for some years. 



Mr. Wm. L. Baily described in detail the home life and 

 habits of the Night Hawk (Chordeiles virginianus) and the 

 Whip-poor-will (Aiitrostomus vociferus) illustrating his remarks 

 by some beautiful lantern slides. 



May 2, 1907. Twenty-two members present. Mr. Harlow 

 described the nesting of a pair of Duck Hawks {Falco peregrinus 

 anatum) on the Nockamixon cliffs along the Delaware, near 

 Holland Sta. in Bucks Co., Pa., April IS, 1907. The nest was 

 inaccessible, but from the difficulty experienced in trying to 

 flush the female, he judged that she was incubating. 



May 16, 1907. Seventeen members present. A general dis- 

 cussion was held on the \X\\d Pigeon (Eclopwtls migratorius) . 

 Mr. E. W. Woolman recalled a very large flock that he had 

 seen pa.ssing over Hestonville (now part of West Philadelphia) 

 in 1850. The last specimen he secured was in the Lazaretto 

 woods at Tinicum, Delaware Co., Pa., in 1869. 



