THE ANNUAL WINTER MEETING 



The fourteenth annual winter meeting of the Vermont Bird Club 

 was held in conjunction with the Vermont Botanical Club at the Wil- 

 liams Science Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., on Friday 

 and Saturday, Jan. 30 and 31, 1914. The first session began at 10 

 o'clock Friday A. M., with the President, Dr. G. H. Perkins, in the 

 chair. Prof. G. P. Burns, Mrs. W. B. Jolley and Mr. H. G. Rugg were 

 appointed a committee to make arrangements for the next summer 

 meeting. The President appointed the following persons as members 

 of the Nominating Committee for the two Clubs: Mr. D. S. Carpen- 

 ter, Miss M. A. Strong, Mr. C. D. Howe. A report of the "Nature 

 Club Committee" was presented by Mr. J. G. Underwood through Dr. 

 H. F. Perkins. The report was adopted and it was voted to continue 

 the committee. Mr. C. D. Howe presented the foilowing resolution, 

 which was adopted by a vote of the Club: 



Resolved, That the members of the Vermont Bird Club work for 

 and urge the passage of a law by the next General Assembly of Ver- 

 mont making the State forests, heretofore and hereafter acquired by 

 the State, reservations or refuges for bird and animal life. 



The following papers were read: The Nesting of the Short-billed 

 Marsh Wren in Vermont, by Mr. H. G. Rugg; Birds of the West Indies, 

 by Mrs. Josephine Brown of Bristol; Birds of Florida, by Mrs. A. B. 

 Morgan of Woodstock. 



At the afternoon session Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn reported the sum- 

 mer meeting of 1913; Prof. G. P. Burns reported a plan for doing 

 ecological work with birds and plants by local nature clubs; The Rela- 

 tion of Nature Clubs to the Schools, by Dr. H. F. Perkins; Duck Hawks 

 in Rutland County, by Duane E. Kent of Rutland. The session closed 

 with an illustrated lecture on Habitat Groups by Miss Alice W. Wilcox 

 of the Fairbanks Museum of St. Johnsbury. 



At six o'clock the annual supper and roll call was held at Grass 

 Mount, followed by a lecture on Blackberries of Vermont, by Dr. Ezra 

 Brainerd. 



The following papers were read at the Saturday morning session: 

 Birds of Bennington and Vicinity, by Dr. L. H. Ross; The Story of a 

 Tame Robin, by Miss Cora G. B. Field of Rutland; A Short Story of 

 an Unfortunate, by Mrs. Eliza F. Miller of Bethel; Nesting Habits of 



