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to March 23d, 1911, and the Bohemian Waxwings on March 

 7th and 16th. Mr. Anthony W. Robinson entertained the Club 

 with a communication describing a trip across the continent 

 from Chicago to San Francisco. His remarks pertained princi- 

 pally to observations made in the Yellowstone Park and Cali- 

 fornia. The talk was illustrated with lantern slides. 



Mr. Hill reported a Chewink observed at Woodland Cemetery 

 on March 26th, and Mr. Moore a Loggerhead Shrike at Black- 

 wood, N. J. , on April 6th, 



April 20, 1911. Nineteen members present. Dr. Trotter 

 read a biographical sketch of the late Alfred Newton written by 

 Arthur Benson. The subject-matter related particularly to the 

 associations of the author with Newton during the period of 

 Newton's connection with Cambridge University. Under the 

 subject "Some New Light on the Theory of Protective Colora- 

 tion, ' ' Mr. Stone read extracts from an article in the current 

 number of the '*Auk" by Thos. Barbour and John C. Phillips 

 in criticism of some of the theories of protective coloration in 

 birds expounded by Mr. Abbott H. Thayer in his book, ' ' Con- 

 cealing Coloration." A letter from Mr. Sharpless, of West Ches- 

 ter, was read by Mr. Stone, which mentioned the procuring of 

 a maimed Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis). Mr. Stone 

 exhibited a specimen of an immature Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 

 secured by Mr. R. E. Morris. The bird possessed a certain 

 amount of red feathers at the base of the bill, an unusual char- 

 acteristic in the plumage of the young of this species. 



May 4, 1911. Fourteen members present. Mr. Robert T. 

 Moore gave an illustrated talk on a trip to Florida during the 

 past winter. The bird-life about Tampa and the neighboring 

 keys was particularly described. Mr. Potter reported a flock of 

 about forty Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) on the Delaware at 

 Camden, N. J., on April 23. Mr, Moore reported the White- 

 crowned Sparrow under date of May 1st, and the Golden-winged 

 Warbler on May 3d, from Haddonfield, N. J. Mr. Rehn re- 

 ported for Mr. Charles Liebeck a Northern Phalarope secured 

 on the river below Philadelphia on May 22, 1910. 



May 18, 1911. Twenty-nine members and two visitors pres- 



