6 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



ant. Sickle-billed Curlews {A\ lovgirosiris) were taken, but were not 

 abundant. In an old pine tree seven pairs of Martens {Frogne subts) 

 were breeding. 



Wm. B. Evans described " An Excursion to Hanover, Burlington 

 Co., N. J.," the trip covering three days early in May, 1900. "The 

 locality is well within the pine barrens, and two things were especially 

 striking; first the absolute lack of migrating birds at a time of year 

 when near Philadelphia we were daily greeting the arrivals which make 

 this month a month of months. Of the 38 species recorded all ap- 

 peared to be resident with the exception of the White-throated Spar- 

 row {Zonotrichia albicolUs), which was heard but once, and the Cross- 

 bills {Lcxia c. minor). The second point of interest was the presence 

 of these Crossbills at so late a d.ite [May 6th]." (See below, p. 7.) 



Dr. Hughes stated that at Forked River, N. J., June 6, 1900, he had 

 observed about two dozen Crossbills {Loxia c. minor) feeding on the 

 pine cones. On May 10, 1894, in company with Messrs. Brown and 

 Shyrock he had seen three Crossbills at Lewes, Delaware, these being 

 the latest records of the occurrence of the species within his experience. 



December 6, igoo. — Nineteen members and a visitor present. 



Prof. PI. A. Surface, of State Collega, Pa., was elected a Correspond- 

 ing member and Wm. B. Evans an Active member. 



Messrs. Stone and Baily reported on the Cambridge meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, which they, as well as Messrs. Cope 

 and Pennock, had attended. 



Mr. Philip Laurent exhibited a mounted specimen of the European 

 Corn Ciake i^Crex crex) taken at Hursley, Worcester Co., Md., No- 

 vember 28, 1900, by John Livesey, while in company with Mr. Laurent. 

 The btornach contained remains of small grasshoppers. The bird 

 measured: wing, 5.25 ins.; extent, 16.75 '^^^• 



December 20, /pOO.-r-Seventeen members present. 



Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse, of Philadelphia, was elected an Honor- 

 ary member, and Mr. Waldron D. W. Miller, of Plainfield, N. J., a Cor- 

 responding member. 



Mr. Pennock described a visit to a rookery of the Florida Cormorant 

 Phalacrocorax d. floridanus) near St. Mark's, Florida, in April, i.'Sg. 

 The nests in this instance were in high cypresses, about thirty or forty 

 nests in a tree. 



Mr. Baily described his work during the past year in the interest of 

 Gull and Tern protection on the New Jersey coast (see Auk, 1901, pp. 

 83-84). 



