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and weak fish, and clam chowder, and mudhen and sandpiper 

 stew, and once a carcass of a Blue Heron which we had just skinned 

 went into the pot with most satisfactory results. DeHaven was 

 not a sound sleeper and on more than one occasion I awoke to 

 find him shifting the anchor or sitting on the deck listening to 

 the Mudhens cackling in the sedge, or I have been aroused by a 

 shake of the shoulder to see a Short-eared Owl perched on the 

 wheel or to hear the Night Herons croaking through the darkness 

 overhead. 



"Norrie" at once became our authority on the water fowl and 

 everything relating to feathered game, while from us he gathered 

 information on the occmrence of certain of the small birds which, 

 in his concentration on game birds, he had not been aware of. 

 He had been brought up on a copy of Wilson and once he had 

 become acquainted with the subsequently described Ipswich 

 Sparrow, his keen perception recognized that the bird described 

 by Wilson as the male of the Savannah Sparrow was in reality 

 this northern species, which comes from Sable Island to the dunes 

 of the New Jersey coast in winter. This fact had been overlooked 

 by all other ornithologists and it carried the history of the species 

 back some sixty years. 



Isaac Norris DeHaven was born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1847, 

 the son of Lieut. Commander Edwin J. DeHaven, U. S. N. and 

 Mary Norris DaCosta. Shortly after his birth his parents removed 

 to Washington D. C, where they lived until May, 1850, when his 

 father was placed in command of the First Grinnell expedition 

 in search of Sir John Franklin, when "Norrie" returned to Philadel- 

 phia with his mother until the expedition came back in August, 

 1851. He then lived for two years on a farm in Cooper's Creek, 

 N. J., and then for a short time in Baltimore, Md., after which he 

 resided in Philadelphia in winter and New Jersey in the summer 

 until moving to Ardmore, where he resided with his two sisters at 

 the time he joined the Club. 



At an early age he was much interested in nature and in machin- 

 ery. He was always a great reader and devoured every kind of 

 book that he came across, coming into possession of many works 

 on birds and animals and on hunting and fishing. As a boy he 

 often played at being an Indian and fashioned for himself all 



