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Owing to the great reception to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science at the Museum on this even- 

 ing, and the small attendance at our own meeting, it was 

 decided that the scheduled paper by Mr. Herbert Lang be 

 postponed to the following meeting, giving an opportunity for 

 general discussion of topics of interest. 



Mr. Rogers gave an account* of the finding by Mr. LaDow 

 and himself, last July, of a Chimney Swift (Chcetura pelagica) 

 nest several feet down on the concrete side of a well near 

 Westwood, N. J. The old bird at home apparently tried to 

 frighten the intruders away from the mouth of the well by a 

 loud rumbling noise of wings. Several members discussed 

 this possibility. 



Mr. Griscom told of a Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) 

 chasing flies on an ocean liner far at sea, and Mr. Decker of a 

 Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) he had watched 

 picking flies from the grease of the rigging of a sailing vessel 

 along the coast. 



In response to an inquiry by Mr. Griscom, several members 

 spoke of having heard the Barred, Great Horned and Screech 

 Owls (Strix varia, Bubo virginianus et Otus asio) and also the 

 Whip-poor-will {Antrostomus vociferus) calling in the daytime, 

 while Glaucidium was said by members who had been in its 

 range to whistle regularly in the sunlight. 



January 9, 1917. — The President in the chair. Twelve 

 members (Dr. Dwight and Messrs. Gladden, Griscom, Hix,, 

 Lang, Marks, J. T. Nichols, L. N. Nichols, Philipp, Rogers^ 

 Weber and Woodruff) and sixteen visitors present. 



Mr. L. D. Ingalls, whose name had been proposed at the 

 previous meeting^ was elected to Resident Membership. 



The name of Mr. Gerald H. Thayer was proposed for 

 Resident Membership by Mr. Griscom, and was referred to 

 the Membership Committee. 



The Secretary read a communication from the Women's 

 League for the Protection of Riverside Park, urging this 

 Society to write to the Secretary of the Board of Estimate and 

 Apportionment of New York City a formal protest against the 



* See "Chimney Swift Nesting in a Well," Auk, XXXIV, 337. 



