DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 9 



January §th, i8ggp — Annual meeting, thirty-one members present. 

 Mr. William D. Carpenter was elected an Associate Member. The 

 resignation of Mr. Robt. T. Young from Active Membership was received 

 and accepted with regret. 



The officers chosen for the year were as follows : 



President — Charles J. Rhoads. 



Vice-President — Charles J. Pennock. 



Secretary — William A. Shryock. 



Treastirer — William L. Baily. 



Mr. Stone addressed the meeting on the "Birds of the Philippines 

 and Porto Rico," explaining the geographical position and relationship 

 of the islands and commenting on the more interesting species recorded 

 from them. He estimated that there were about 325 resident species 

 so far noted in the Philippines, and about 25 native species in Porto 

 Rico. 



Mr. Henry Warrmgton exhibited a Lapland Longspur, ( Calcarius 

 lapponicus) shot at Salem, N. J., December 28, 1898, from a flock of 

 Horned Larks. This is the second capture of this species in the Dela- 

 ware Valley since the organization of the Club. 



Mr. Albert Whitaker stated that he had reliable information of the 

 shooting of two Wild Pigeons, {Ectopistes migratoriiis) by Mr. Frank 

 Butterworth in Wayne Co. Pa., November 2, 189S. 



The meeting closed with an exhibition of lantern slides of birds and 

 nests by Messrs. William L. Baily and J. Harris Reed. 



Ja?iuary ig, i8gg. — Twenty members present. 



Mr. Joseph W. Tatum was elected an Active Member. 



Mr. W. Gordon Smith read a paper describing a locality at Merry- 

 dell, Maryland, on the Choptank Creek near the eastern boundary of 

 of the State, which he had visited July 13, 1898, in company with Mr. 

 L N. DeHaven, and where a specimen of Prothonotary Warbler 

 {Protonotaria citrea) was obtained, and several others seen. The ap- 

 pearance of the specimen and the date of the occurrence gave every 

 indication that the species was breeding in this vicinity, which is mater- 

 ially north of its regular range. The low wet woodland with plenty of 

 fallen timber offered an ideal nesting locality for the bird. 



Mr. H. W. Fowler remarked on the Ducks observed in the Philadel- 

 phia markets during the present winter. He found the Lesser Scaup 

 the most abundant species, while the Greater Scaup had not been seen 

 at all, although several hundred specimens had been examined. Black 

 Ducks and Red Heads were plentiful ; Canvas Backs, Pintails and 

 Bald Pates, fairly common ; Ruddy Ducks, common late in the season ; 



