Club Notes 



Sixteen meetings of the Club were held during 1919. The 

 average attendance was twenty-five, while sixty-eight members 

 attended at least one meeting during the year. 



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Three field trips were taken during the year as follows: Feb- 

 ruary 22, 1919, to New Lisbon, N. J. The members were 

 entertained at the cabin of Messrs. Samuel Scoville, Jr. and J. 

 Fletcher Street. The day was overcast and damp, wind blow- 

 ing from the northeast. Eleven species of birds were noted, in- 

 cluding a flock of twenty-seven Evening Grosbeaks, seven of 

 which were males. Eighteen members and two visitors at- 

 tended. 



April 18, 1919, to valley of Ridley Creek from West Chester 

 Pike to Paoli, Pa., and return. Twenty men took part. 

 Cloudy, wind west. Fifty-two species of birds noted. A re- 

 markable number of Hawks (six species) and Sparrows (thir- 

 teen species) were listed. A Wilson's Snipe and a Baltimore 

 Oriole were observed. 



May 30, 1919, Port Indian to Oaks, Pa. Clear and very 

 warm; 85 to 91 degrees. Ten members and three visitors at- 

 tended. Fifty-nine species of birds observed, including Lesser 

 Scaup Duck, Upland Plover and Bobolink. Nests of Cooper's 

 Hawk, Grasshopper Sparrow and Blue-winged Warbler were 

 found. 



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On December 11 the Club tendered an informal dinner to 

 Mr. William Lutley Sclater, the famous British ornithologist 

 and editor of "The Ibis," who was visiting the city. Forty- 

 five members attended. President Street presided and Dr. 

 Stone acted as toastmaster. Mr. Sclater spoke of his former 

 visit to Philadelphia with his father, the late Dr. Philip L. 



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