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House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) which had been coming for 

 many months to his window-sill in the American Museum, and 

 of the three American Egrets that visited Van Cortlandt Park 

 last summer. 



November 14, 1916. — Meeting omitted owing to conflict with 

 that of the American Ornithologists' Union, 



November 28, 1916. — The President in the chair. Thirteen 

 members (Dr. Dwight and Messrs. Chapin, Chubb, Granger, 

 Griscom, Hix, J. M. Johnson, Marks, J. T. Nichols, L. N. 

 Nichols, Philipp, Rogers and Woodruff) and seven visitors 

 present. 



Dr. Dwight proposed for Resident Membership the name of 

 Mr. George Gladden of Brooklyn; it was referred to the 

 Membership Committee. 



Mr. Griscom recorded a Lapland Longspur (Calcarius I. 

 lapponicus) and Black-bellied Plover (Squatarola squatarola) 

 seen by himself and Mr. J. T. Nichols at Long Beach, L. I., 

 November 26. 



Mr. J. T. Nichols had attended a meeting of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club at Cambridge the previous evening and 

 spoke of the reports of Evening Grosbeaks (Hesperiphona v. 

 vespertina), Pine Grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator leucura), 

 Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra minor), Redpolls (Acanthis) 

 and Brown-cap Chickadees (Penthestes hudsonicus) around 

 Boston. 



Mr. Rogers spoke of the following reports of Brown-cap 

 Chickadees on November 12 in southeastern New York: at 

 Rhinebeck by Mr. Maunsell S. Crosby; a probable one below 

 Irvington by himself; two in Van Cortlandt Park by a young 

 friend of Mr. Hix; and one on University Heights by Mr. T. 

 Gilbert Pearson. The southernmost previous record had been 

 Poughkeepsie, and there only in 1912-'13. 



Several members spoke of the effect of airplanes upon birds. 

 Mr. J. T. Nichols said that at the aviation grounds on Long 

 Island the only time he had ever seen birds heed one was when 

 a flock of about 100 Crows {Corvus 6. brachyrhynchus) changed 

 their course to avoid one. Mr. Griscom stated that airplanes 

 had about driven ducks away from Cayuga Lake, and Mr. 



