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members (Dr. Dwight and Messrs. Ball, Bowdish, Chapin, 

 Chubb, Cleaves, Griscom, Heller, Hix, Marks, J. T. Nichols, 

 Rogers and Weber) and thirty visitors present. 



Mr. L. N. Nichols, whose name had been proposed at the 

 previous meeting, was elected to Resident Membership. 



Mr. Hix reported Wood Ducks {Aix sponsa) to the number 

 of about 25 at Van Cortlandt Park October 21; and Mr. Gris- 

 com a Magnolia Warbler {Dendroica magnolia) at Long 

 Beach, L. I., the 27th. 



Mr. Chubb announced the final departure of the American 

 Egrets {Herodias egretta) from Van Cortlandt Park; the last 

 to go was last seen on October 9. 



Mr. Nichols spoke of the unusually early arrival of ducks of 

 the genus Marila along the south shore of Long Island in 

 October and recorded the following game birds killed at Mastic 

 by Dr. Rolfe Floyd: an immature Hudsonian Godwit {Limosa 

 hcemastica) October 6, a Canvasback (Marila vallisneria) the 

 11th (the earliest Long Island record) and two Shovelers 

 {Spatula clypeata) the 14th (an early date for the Island). 



Mr. Bowdish at Demarest and Mr. Rogers on the Rahway 

 River above Millburn had each seen a Solitary Vireo {Lanivireo 

 s. solitarius) October 22. 



Mr. Weber and Mr. Rogers spoke of the unusual abundance 

 of Pine Siskins {Spinus pinus) and Red-breasted Nuthatches 

 {Sitta canadensis) in this region this autumn; and Mr. Weber 

 remarked on a scarcity of Red-eyed Vireos ( Vireosylva olivacea) 

 about Palisades Park this summer and recorded a Barn Swallow 

 {Hirundo erythrogastra) captured there which had been banded 

 last year on Staten Island. ' 



Mr. Rogers reported a Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca ccerulea) in 

 brown plumage seen by Mr. J. M. Johnson and himself on 

 Long Beach, L. L, October 15. The bird permitted examina- 

 tion at from 25 to 40 feet for as long as the observers pleased. 



Mr. Samuel H. Chubb gave the evening's lecture, on '^Pos- 



,sibiUties in Bird Photography in New York City." The 



speaker's lantern-slides included photographs of nesting 



Sparrow Hawks (Falco s. sparverius), Kingfishers {Ceryle 



alcyon) and others about his home at Kingsbridge, of a cock 



