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Dr. L. H. Ross, Bennington, visited England in May and June and 

 made observations on birds there. He reports the arrival for the first 

 time in Bennington of a flock of starlings, Dec. 12, 1913. 



Miss Anna M. Granger, E. Poultney, saw and heard a winter wren 

 Dec. 25th. 



Miss Mabel A. Strong reports a flock of pine grosbeaks in Wood- 

 stock the last week in October. 



Mrs. Eliza F. Miller, Bethel, reports the following birds that she 

 had not before seen in that section: Evening grosbeak, golden eye, 

 herring gull, American scaup duck, Tennessee warbler (in song), 

 American pipit, screech owl. She contributed an interesting paper on 

 the nesting of the Phil, vireo in Bethel to the joint meeting of the 

 Hartland Nature Club and White River Junction Group, held at Wood- 

 stock in September. 



Mrs. W. H. Moore, Woodstock, reports seeing an immature white- 

 eyed vireo Sept. 25th in company with young magnolia warblers. The 

 markings about the eye were pale buff instead of bright yellow as in 

 the mature bird. 



Mrs. Nelly Hart Woodworth, Tarpon Springs, Fla., reports seeing 

 about 80 specimens, usually, in that region. One Swainson's warbler, 

 many snowy heron, yellow-throated warblers (quite different from the 

 Florida or the Northern yellow-throats), tufted titmice in abundance, 

 thousands of palm warblers with an occasional yellow palm, brown 

 thrashers and cardinals, are the birds mentioned by her. 



A lecture on "The Long Trail" by Dr. Louis J. Paris, given at the 

 recent winter meeting was of much interest to members of both Clubs. 

 This trail reaches from Killington to Johnson, an actual distance of 150 

 miles. The completed trail will extend from Canada to the Massa- 

 chusetts line, while loops and side trails will form a network of roads 

 leading to points of interest in the Green Mountains. Thus new op- 

 portunities for studying rare plants and birds of the State will be 

 afforded. 



Miss Alice W. Wilcox of Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, gave a 

 delightful talk on Habitat Bird Groups, and illustrated it by lantern 

 slides of bird groups photographed in the Natural History Museum, 

 New York. 



