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object of the expedition is to obtain data, written, photographed, and 

 painted, concerning the ecology of the Phasianidaj. The tentative itiner- 

 ary inckides the Himalayas, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cochin China, 

 Palawan, Formosa, Eastern China and Japan, the party returning by way 

 of Honolulu and San Francisco. 



Mr. Beebe has been granted a twelve month's leave of absence without 

 pay, and in his absence his correspondence and the continuing of his 

 experimental work at the Zoological Park will be carried on by Mr. Lee S. 

 Crandall. 



The results of the expedition will be published in monographic form, 

 illustrated with colored plates of all the more important species of pheas- 

 ants, by Charles R. Knight, Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall. 

 The treatment will be rather from the point of view of the ecology of the 

 living birds and their care in captivity, than systematic and anatomical. 



Living specimens of Argus and other rare forms will be brought back, 

 together with a collection of skins and studies for backgrounds. 



The widespread interest in pheasants in this country and the lack of 

 knowledge of their habits in a wild state seem to indicate a field for such a 

 work. 



The expedition will be made, and the monograph published, under the 

 auspices of the New York Zoological Society. Credit for the inception 

 and the entire financing of the expedition and monograph, is due to Colonel 

 Anthony R. Kuser of Bernardsville, New Jersey. The success of the 

 undertaking will be altogether due to that gentleman's enthusiastic love 

 of birds and disinterested generosity. 



Mr. Beebe is in charge of the bird collection and the experimental 

 station at Faircourt Aviaries on Colonel Kuser's estate, and the painting 

 and all other monographic work will be carried on at that place. 



The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, whose organization 

 was announced in 'The Auk' for July, 1890 (Vol. VII, 298, 299) celebrated 

 the twentieth anniversary of its founding on January 6, 1910, at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Forty-eight members were 

 in attendance and Dr. A. K. Fisher was present as the guest of the Club. 

 Addresses were made by Dr. Fisher, Dr. Wm. E. Hughes, Mr. Samuel 

 N. Rhoads and Mr. Witmer Stone. In the twenty years of its existence 

 the Clvib has done much to develop ornithological interest in the region 

 covered by its activities. One hundred and eighty-one men have been 

 enrolled as members, a volume on the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey and nine annual numbers of Cassinia have been published, 

 a total of 981 pages and 28 plates. Three hundred and thirty-five meet- 

 ings have been held, with an average attendance of twenty for the past 

 fifteen years. The officers of the Club elected for the ensuing year are: 

 President, Samuel N. Rhoads; Vice-President, Stewardson Brown; Sec- 

 retary, J. Fletcher Street; Treasurer, Samuel Wright. 



