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Redfield, Pearson, Baily, Street and Stone ; on Twentieth An- 

 nual Meeting, Stone, Morris, Wright, Pennock and Brown. 



February 4, 1909. Twenty members present. This was the 

 first meeting held in the new rooms on the fourth floor of the 

 Museum. 



Mr. R. T. Moore read a paper entitled " Three Finds in South 

 Jersey," [see Cassinia, 1908, pp. 29-40]. 



Mr. Stone presented some interesting data relative to the bird 

 life of the New Jersey coast marshes fifty years ago. Pine Sis- 

 kins {Spinus pinus) were reported as very plentiful this winter. 



February 18, 1909, Twenty-three members present. Dr. 

 Hughes described a trip through the Yellowstone and Southwest- 

 ern Montana. 



Mr. Stone described a second visit to the Crow roost previously 

 reported by Mr. Morris. He considered it undoubtedly the 

 Davis Grove roost listed by Mr. S. N. Rhoads twenty years ago, 

 [see also Cassinia, 1903] . 



Mr. Street reported a flock of about 200 Tree Swallows (Irido- 

 procne bicolor) at Cape May, N. J., February 14, 1909, and Mr. 

 Stone on behalf of Mr. H. Walker Hand, exhibited a White- 

 winged Crossbill {Loxia leucoptera) which had been captured by 

 a cat at Cape May, February 5, making the first record of the 

 species for Cape May County. 



March 4, 1909. Thirteen members present. Dr. C. E. 

 Ehinger, Dr. Francis H. Tomlin and Mr. Ernest Corts, were 

 elected associate members. 



Dr. Spencer Trotter read the paper of the evening, ' ' Relations 

 of the Land Bird Fauna of Northeastern America," [see Auk, 

 1909, pp. 221-233]. 



Mr. S. N. Rhoads recorded a House Wren ( Troglodytes aedon) 

 at Haddonfield, N. J. , February 28 and thought it quite likely 

 that it had wintered there. 



Mr. Moore exhibited an orange-crowned Warbler ( Vermivora 

 celata) taken at Haddonfield, N. J., February 25, 1909, and two 

 Cape May Warblers {Dendroica tigrina) taken September 22 and 

 October 6, 1907, at the same place, also a White-crowned Spar- 

 row {Zonotrichia leucophrys) at Tuckahoe, N. J., May 11, 1907. 



