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would be a great waste of time to have the same ground covered by more 

 than one person. 



Mr. McAtee has been collecting data of this nature for many years, 

 and has published two glossaries of unusual bird names. He has also 

 recently had the good fortune to receive for examination, through the 

 courtesy of Mrs. Gurdon Trumbull and Mr. Samuel Scoville, Jr., the 

 manuscript notes prepared by Gurdon Trumbull, for a second edition of 

 his "Names and Portraits of Birds." Still more recently, Mrs. Trumbull 

 has with the greatest generosity turned over to him this book together 

 with all of Mr. Trumbull's miscellaneous notes on the habits and names 

 of birds. This material will eventually be deposited in the Manuscript 

 Division of the Library of Congress. Mr. McAtee will welcome suggestions 

 relating to the whole project, and contributions, especially of unusual 

 local names of birds. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club is endeavoring to collect all 

 existing data bearing upon the birds of Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey 

 and Delaware. Information relative to any manuscript lists of early 

 migration records, or published matter in out of the way places, will be 

 gratefully received. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club held its twenty-ninth annual 

 meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in January, 

 1919. Officers elected were President, J. Fletcher Street, Vice-President, 

 George H. Stuart 3d, Secretary Julian K. Potter and Treasurer, Samuel C. 

 Palmer. Thirteen meetings were held during the year with an average at- 

 tendance of twenty-two. Twenty-seven members entered the National 

 Service during the war and one, Archibald Benners, 1st Lieut. Marines, 

 was killed July 3, 1918. 



