2 ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



January i8, igoo. — Fourteen members and one visitor present. 

 Messrs. Chas. W. Euvinger and Chas. S. Welles were elected Associate 

 Members, and Mr. H. Walker Hand, of Cape May, N. J., a Corre- 

 sponding Member. 



Mr. Witmer Stone exhibited a series of Crossbills {L. leitcoptera and 

 minor) lately received from Mr. Otto Behr. of Lopez, Pa. Wm. B_ 

 Evans reported the Red Crossbill {Loxia c. minor) at Moorestown 

 N. J,, Jan. 14th ; and Saw-Whet Owl {Nyctala acadica) foimd dead 

 Dec. 20, 1899, at Friendship, N. J. 



Mr. A. C. Emlen noted a few Grackles ( Quiscalus quiscula) all 

 winter at Germantown, and exhibited a White-winged Crossbill {Loxia 

 leucoptera) taken on Dec. 18, the first record of the species at Phila- 

 delphia for ten years. 



Mr. Rehn reported Flickers ( Colaptes auratus luteus) observed at 

 Tinicum, and a Hermit Thrush {Hylocichia a. pallasii) at Clifton, Del. 

 Co., Pa. 



Crossbills {Loxia c. minor) were reported from Germantown, Clifton 

 and Kennett Square. 



Other interesting records were : 



Red- bellied Nuthatch {Sii/a canadensis) ; Flicker {Colaptes auratus 

 luteus), and Carolina Chickadee {Parus carolinensis), Kennett Square, 

 Chester Co., Pa., January t, C. J. Pennock. Cat Bird {Galeoscoptes 

 carolinensis), Germantown, Phila., Jan. 14, E. M. Evans. 



February i, igoo. — Twenty-one members and a visitor present 

 Messrs. Frederick Sirensen and Walter G. Sibley were elected Asso- 

 ciate Members. 



A letter from Dr. Montgomery reported two White-winged Crossbills 

 {Loxia leucoptera) at West Chester, Pa., Jan. 28. 



Dr. Hughes made the communication of the evening on a trip to 

 Palm Beach, Fla., covering the end of December and beginning of 

 January. He found birds less abundant both in species and individ- 

 uals than he had expected, and though a fairly representative collection 

 was obtained, he secured nothing of especial interest. Bald eagles 

 {HalicEcius leucocephalus) was nesting, and had hrge downy young by 

 the first of the year. 



Mr. Pennock exhibited an adult male Ivory-billed Woodpecker 



{Cafnpephilus principalis) received from Taylor Co., Florida, where it 



had been secured Jan. 12, 1900. (See below, p. 8.) 



February /j, igoo. — Twenty-six members present. 



Mr. W. L. Whitaker addressed the Chib on his two years' sojourn in 



Alaska and British America, mostly in the Stickine River district. His 



