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Bird-Lovers' Club. He remarked that ail the specimens taken 

 in Massachusetts and southward this winter, including one 

 from Plainfield, N. J., had proved to be P. h. nigricans, so 

 that the Englewood bird was almost certainly of that form, 

 especially as its notes had seemed to him different (''distinctly 

 harsher and more incisive, less drawled, almost explosive") 

 from those of P. h. liitoralis, which he had heard repeatedly in 

 New Hampshire as recently as last September. He proposed 

 that, owing to the confusion due to using ''Hudsonian Chicka- 

 dee" both for P. hudsonicus and for P. hudsonicus hudsonicus, 

 the species (P. hudsonicus) be called the ''Brown-cap Chicka- 

 dee," P. h. hudsonicus the "Hudsonian Brown-cap Chickadee," 

 p. h. nigricans the "Labrador Brown-cap Chickadee," etc. 



Mr. Gerald Thayer spoke of seeing White-winged Crossbills 

 (Loxia leucoptera) at Roslyn, L. L, January 2. 



Mr. Herbert Lang gave a paper "On the Square-lip Rhinoc- 

 eros and the Giant Eland," giving an account of the history 

 of our knowledge of the Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), 

 its structural and other differences from the Hook-lip species 

 (Dicer OS hicornis), and many notes on its habits. This was 

 followed by a briefer account of the appearance and habits of 

 the Eland {Taurotragus derhianus gigas). The paper was 

 illustrated with many colored lantern-slides of the animals and 

 their haunts. 



January 23, 1917. — The President in the chair. Fourteen 

 members (Dr. Dwight, Dr. F. M. Chapman and Messrs. 

 Chubb, Cleaves, Davis, Fleischer, Gladden, Griscom, Hix, 

 Ingalls, F. E. Johnson, Marks, Rogers and Thayer) and 

 forty-eight visitors present. 



The Secretary read from the Chief Clerk of the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment, City of New York, an ac- 

 knowledgment of the Society's recent communication con- 

 cerning the proposed changes in Riverside Park. 



Mr. Gerald H. Thayer, whose name had been proposed at 

 the previous meeting, was elected to Resident Membership. 



The President appointed Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Rogers a 

 Committee to make arrangements for the Annual Dinner. 



Mr. Hix reported an Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora c. 



