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Law, with the care of our seventy bird 

 reservations, and with so many other 

 responsibilities that it is difficult to under- 

 stand why similar Bureaus have not been 

 established in countries having economic 

 problems essentially like our own. — F. M.C. 



Cassinia: a Bird Annual. Proceedings 

 of the Delaware Valley Ornithological 

 Club, No. XXIII, 1919, pp. i-ss; 

 2 half-tones, ills., i chart. 



During the year 1919, the D. V. O. C. 

 held sixteen meetings with an average 

 attendance of twenty-five members, or 



joint meeting of these two clubs. Doubtless 

 other common interests of both societies 

 might be served by such reunions which 

 could be held annually, and alternate 

 between the two cities. Held in May, 

 these meetings might lead to cooperation 

 in the study of bird migration. 



In this issue of 'Cassinia,' Wm. L. 

 Baily presents a review of the ornitho- 

 logical achievements of the uncle after 

 whom he was named, which makes it clear 

 from whom the reviewer inherited his love 

 of birds, and Samuel Scoville, Jr., con- 



PILEATED WOODPECKER 



Photographed by A. D. McGrew and reproduced by the courtesy of the 



Delaware Valley Ornithological Club 



about 20 per cent of its resident member- 

 ship. Just why the Philadelphia organiza- 

 tion should have over 120 resident 

 members on its roll, while the New York 

 Society musters but seventy-odd, is a 

 problem in ornithological sociology which 

 might well form a subject of debate at a 



tributes a lively account of a hunt in May, 

 1919, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, 

 for nests of the Pileated Woodpecker. 

 Several were found and the photograph 

 of one of these fine birds at the entrance 

 to its home, which is here reproduced, 

 was secured by A. D. McGrew. 



