2 ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The following abstract of the Proceedings of the Club has been pre- 

 pared mainly for the purpose of furnishing the members with a record 

 of the work accomplished during the past two years. In order to avoid 

 repetition, wherever any papers or communications have appeared else- 

 where, only a brief mention of them has been made here, and references 

 to the periodicals in which they appear have been added in brackets. 

 Brief reports of many of the meetings have been published from time to 

 time in the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the Or?uthologist and Oiuo- 

 gisL 



Many of the meetings of 1890 were devoted entirely to the discussion 

 of the local migration, which it has not been considered necessary to 

 mention here. 



March y, i8go. — Five members present. 



Mr. Baily read a paper on the " Relationship between Partis atrica- 

 pillus and P. caj'olinensis" illustrating his remarks with a large series of 

 specimens from the collections of the members and from that of Mr. 

 Philip Laurent. 



The Carolina Chickadee {P. carolinensis) seems to be the only spe- 

 cies found about Philadelphia in summer, though both species are com- 

 mon in winter. 



May ig, i8go. — Six members present. 



Mr. Stone exhibited a number of specimens recently collected by him 

 in southern Mexico as ornithologist on the expedition sent out by the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, and gave an informal talk on his experi- 

 ences in Yucatan and in the Mexican mountains. [For account of the 

 Ornithological Results of the Expedition, see Proceedings Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. of Phila. 1890, p. 201.] 



June 16, i8go. — Five members present. 



Mr. Charles J. Rhoads was elected an Associate Member. 



Mr. Morris read a paper on the " Flycatchers of the genus Empi- 

 donax,'" giving his experience with the species which are found in the 

 eastern United States. He had taken all these in the vicinity of Phila- 

 delphia except Traill's Flycatcher {E. pusillus traillii) ; one specimen 

 of this bird, however, was in Mr. Baily's collection, which was shot 

 May 7, 1883, at Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



The Acadian Flycatcher (E. acadicus) was the only species that was 

 found breeding about Philadcljjhia, it being a common summer resi- 

 dent. 



Mr. Stone stated that the Least Flycatcher (E. minimus) had recently 



