DELAWAEE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 59 



Henry H. Collins, 3rd., Alexander H. Leigh ton, James Hutchinson, 

 Robert Haines, H. D. MeCann, S. Rowland Morgan, Paul W. 

 Bowman. Dr. C. E. Ehringer and Robert T. Moore were trans- 

 ferred to Corresponding membership, having removed from the 

 Club limits. 



Mr. Roberts spoke on "Tobyhanna, Pa., Bird Notes for 1922." 

 A marked migration of Barn Swallows occurred there on July 22. 



Mr. Carter read an interesting general account of "Summer 

 Bird Life of the Pocono Region," intended for publication. 



March 15, 1923. Fifteen members and one visitor present. 



Dr. Palmer addressed the club on "A Philatelic Zoo" showing 

 the extent to which birds and animals had been used as designs 

 for postage stamps and tracing back man's tendency to use them 

 in ornamental drawings from the earliest times. 



April 5, 1923. Twenty-seven members and nine visitors present. 



Mr. Stuart presented an account of a trip to Laguna del Madre 

 and the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, in search of nests of certain 

 species. The communication was illustrated with lantern slides. 



April 19, 1923. Thirty-one members and four visitors present. 



Mr. Rehn spoke on "Bird Notes from Arizona and California" 

 made during an entomological trip in the summer and autumn of 

 1922. 



May 3, 1923. Twenty-eight members and six visitors present. 



Dr. Stone spoke on "April Birds of the Rice Plantations and 

 Cottonfields of South Carolina." 



A list of 24 was recorded near the mouth of the Santee River 

 and 60 at Manning in the central part of the state, April 11-14. 



An interesting visit to Arthur T. Wayne the veteran orni- 

 thologist, at Mt. Pleasant, S. C, was also described. 



Mr. Huber called attention to a specimen of the recently des- 

 cribed Thayer's Gull, in the Academy's collection, collected at 

 Mt. Ephraim, N. J., March 9, 1888, by Samuel N. Rhoads. 



May 17, 1923. No meeting held on account of the dedication 

 of a tablet to Alexander Wilson in the Hall of the Academy by 

 the St. Andrews Society to which the members of the Club were 

 invited. Samuel Scoville, Jr., made the address. 



