Bird Club Notes 



Since its organization in 1890, the Delaware Valley Ornitho- 

 logical Club has published an Abstract of its Proceedings, com- 

 prising four pamphlets: I, 1890-91; II, 1892-97; III, 1898-99; 

 IV, 1900. These were intended for distribution among the 

 members and their friends. 



With the growth of the interest in local ornithology and the 

 increasing acti\'ity of the Club, it seems desirable to issue the 

 more important local papers which are presented at its meetings 

 in full, and to add such observations on migration, etc., as 

 shall make our publication an annual resume of local orni- 

 thology. As it is important for both birds and bird journals 

 to have distinctive names, we have adopted one for our annual 

 which is eminently local and at the same time is a sHght 

 tribute to one of America's greatest ornithologists. For the 

 cover design of "Cassinia" we are indebted to our Associate 

 member Mr. Alfred Morton Githens, while the portrait of Cassin 

 is from a photograph presented to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences by Miss Lucy H. Baird, formerly the property of her 

 father, Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 



During the year the Club has held sixteen regular meetings, 

 with an average attendance of twenty-one. Forty-eight mem- 

 bers have been present at one or more meetings. 



A program of Saturday field trips was planned for the spring, 

 but was greatly interfered with by the unusually stormy weather. 



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On December 7, 1900, there was organized in Philadeli)hia 

 the Spencer F. Baird Ornithological Club, composed entirely of 

 women, most of them Associates of the A. 0. U. The Club has 



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