Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological Club, 1909. 



January 7, 1909. Annual meeting. Thirty-eight members 

 present. The following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: President, William A. Shryock; Vice-Peesident, Stew- 

 ardson Brown; Secretaey, Chreswell J. Hunt; Treasurer, 

 Samuel Wright. 



The meeting was called to order in the room of the Biological 

 and Microscopical Section of the Academy and then adjourned 

 to inspect the new Ornithological Rooms, where a special ex- 

 hibition of skins had been arranged. The members then re- 

 turned to a collation. 



January 21, 1909. Seventeen members present. Mr. Hill 

 described the bird life about Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., and 

 mentioned the Parula Warbler and Redstart as having been 

 found nesting. 



Mr. Stone gave a summary of the spring migration of 1908. 

 Mr. Morris described a visit to a Crow roost near New Brinton, 

 Bucks Co., on January 16 in a driving snow-storm. He and 

 Mr. Shryock stood within the woods and watched the Crows 

 settle for the night. They first filled the trees on the edge of the 

 wood facing the storm, and then those farther back making 

 apparently no effort toward protection from the wind and snow. 



Mr. Rehn reported a Little Auk (^Alle alle) taken at Par- 

 kertown near West Creek, N. J., January 13, by Joshua 

 Parker. Mr. Redfield reported a House Wren (Troglodytes 

 aedon) seen on Rancocas Creek, December 5, 1908, and a Vesper 

 Sparrow (Pocecetes gramineus) taken at Wayne, December 21, 

 1908. 



The president appointed the following committees : On Publi- 

 cation, Morris, Rehn, Wright, Hunt and Stone ; on Migration, 



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