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the habit of the Flickers ( Colapies aura/us) of boring through the 

 wooden sides of the old ice-houses. Inside one of these holes he found 

 a pair of sparrow hawks {Falco span'erius) nesting in hay which was 

 stored within. In Susquehanna County three nests of the Red-tailed 

 Hawk {Buteo Iwrea/is) were found, and Snow Birds {Jiinco hyemalis) 

 were noted building on April 24. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads stated that five Red-headed Woodpeckers {Mel- 

 anerpes eryihrocephalus) had wintered in a wood near Haddonfield, 

 N. J., and two pairs were now breeding there. Mr. De Haven stated 

 .that four or five had wintered at Overbrook, Pa. 



May 20, i8gy. — Thirteen members present. 



Some notes on " Birds of Wolfville, Nova Scotia," prepared by Mr. 

 Harold F. Tufts, were read. 



Mr. Fowler reported the capture of a Summer Tanager {Piranga 

 rubral at Tinicum, Delaware Co., Pa., May 15. {^A/ik, 1897, p. 410). 



A nest and set of two eggs of the Goshawk {Accipiter airicapiilus) 

 from Lopez, Sullivan Co., Pa., the gift of Otto and Herman Behr, was 

 on exhibition [Auk, 1897, p. 317). 



May 21, i8gy, 3:30 p. 7ti. — Nineteen members and a large number 

 of visitors present. An adjourned general meeting held in the lecture 

 hall and open to the public. 



The following program was presented : 



" Some Early Anglo-Saxon Bird Names," Spencer Trotter, M. D. 



"The Aid of Ornithologists needed in the Determination of Certain 

 of the broader Morphological Problems," Thos. H. Montgomery, Ph. D. 



" Modern Tendencies of Ornithology," Witmer Stone. 



" A Resume of the Work of the D. V. O. C," Wm. A. Shryock. 



" Exhibition of Photographs of Birds and Nests," W. L. Whitaker. 



October 7, i8gj. — Sixteen members present. 



Mr. J. R. Moon was elected an Associate Member. 



Mr. Stone read a paper on the "Molting of the Sanderling" {Cali- 

 dris afrnaria) , in which he showed that the flight feathers were in many 

 cases not molted until after the birds reached this latitude in the fall 

 migration. Specimens taken by W. L. Baily, at Cape May, August 4th, 

 were exhibited as illustrations. (See Froc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1897, 

 p. 368.) 



Mr. De Haven exhibited several pellets cast up by a caged crow 

 ( Corvus americanus) which consisted entirely of raspberry seeds. 



October 21, iSgy. — Eighteen members present. 



Messrs. Otto Behr and Herman Behr were elected Corresponding 

 Members. 



