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Digby in the summer and fall of 1922 and 1923, and notes were 

 presented on the habits of the Black-backed Gull, Loon, Canada 

 Ruffed Grouse, Great Blue Heron and Pileated Woodpecker. 



Mr. Gillespie reported a great influx of Purple Finches near his 

 home at Glenolden, Pa. Twenty were trapped and banded. 



March 6, 1924. Thirty-nine members and five visitors present. 

 The death of Isaac Norris DeHaven, Active member and ex- 

 president was announced and the following minute was adopted. 



The members of the D. V. O. C. have heard with deep sorrow of the 

 death on March 2, 1924 of their former president and fellow member Isaac 

 Norris DeHaven. Joining the Club the year after its organization Mr. 

 DeHaven entered actively into its work, and to his interest and generous 

 cooperation much of its success is due. 



By his delightful personality he endeared himself to all of his fellow 

 members and we feel that we have lost not only an ornithologist of ability 

 but a friend in all that that word imphes. 



Dr. Trotter spoke on "An Ornithological Trip to Eastern and 

 Southern Seas," giving an account of the countries visited and 

 their conspicuous birds. He crossed the Pacific to Japan and 

 China, thence to Java, Australia and New Zealand. 



Mr. Carter recorded a Dickcissel found near West Chester, Pa., 

 February 11, 1924, caught in a wire fence. 



March 20, 1924- Thirty-two members and six visitors present. 



Mr. Scoville made a communication entitled "Sky Pirates" in 

 which he described in detail visits to two nesting sites of Duck 

 Hawks and one of Ravens, the former at Tyrone, Pa., and in the 

 Berkshires in Mass., the latter near Tyrone on April 15, 1923. 

 The Ravens had four young, and the ground at the time was 

 covered with snow. All the nests were on cHffs. 



Messrs. McCann and Gillespie stated that returns of banded 

 birds indicated that the Song Sparrows about their homes in winter 

 were not the same ones as found there in summer. 



April 3, 1924- Twenty-three members were present. The fol- 

 lowing were elected to Associate Membership: Theodore Miller, 

 Kenneth O. Brown, Harold T. Green, Samuel Emlen, 3rd, J. 

 Henry Shay, M. Claude Kershner, Edward R. Helwig, Morris 

 M. Green, Frederick C. Young, John Archer Silver. Mr. Rehn 

 addressed the Club on " Some Impressions of Costa Rican Birds, " 



