ABSTRACT 



OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL GLUB 



OF 



PHILADELPH lA. 



Janua7'y 4, igoo. — Annual Meeting. Thirty-five members present. 

 Mr. Charles H. Baker was elected a Corresponding Member. The 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



President — Charles J. Rhoads. 



Vice-President — Charles J. Pennock. 



Secretary — Henry W. Fowler. 



Treasurer — William L. Baily. 



Mr. G. S. Morris addressed the Club on " Winter Bird-life at Cape 

 Charles, Va.," covering a recent visit of two weeks. Duck shooting in 

 this neighborhood, he stated, had deteriorated very much during recent 

 years, partially he thought from the increase in the oyster industry and 

 the presence of numerous oyster boats from which the ducks are con- 

 stantly shot. Black-headed Ducks {Aythya affinis) were noticed in 

 numbers. Among land birds he secured specimens of the Brown- 

 headed Nuthatch {Sitta pusilla), Ipswich Sparrow {Ammodramus prin- 

 ceps) and Pine Warbler {Dendroica vigorsii). The Ipswich Sparrow 

 he regarded as a common winter species on the Virginia coast. 



Mr. Witmer Stone read a humorous paper entitled " The Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club, its Nestling Plumage contrasted with its 

 fully Adult Condition, with Comments on Several of its Molts." Mr. 

 Wm. L. Baily exhibited a number of lantern slides from photographs of 

 birds and their nests. The meeting then adjourned to a collation. 



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