ABSTRACT 



OF THE PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



LINN/EAN SOCIETY 



• OF 



NEW YORK, 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 13, 1917. 



This is the twenty-ninth in the series of Abstracts pubhshed 

 by the Linnsean Society of New York, and, hke the preceding 

 issues, is prepared mainly as a brief review of the work of the 

 Society during the year closing with the date indicated above. 

 Papers presented before the Society and published elsewhere 

 (often enlarged or otherwise different in form) are mentioned 

 with proper reference to the place of publication. 



March 28, 1916. — The President in the chair. Fifteen 

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

 Davis, Granger, Hix, Hollister, J. M. Johnson, LaDow, Lang, 

 Marks, Rogers, Weber and Woodruff) and twenty visitors 

 present. 



The President appointed the previous year's committees to 

 serve without change during the ensuing year. 



A discussion of the migration by members active in the field 

 showed that hardly any migrants arrived before March 25, 

 but that on that day, the very first warm one following eight 

 weeks of almost daily snowfall, with the ground still deeply 

 covered, the country about the City was flooded with all the 

 commoner March migrants. Mr. Weber stated that a hundred 

 or two hundred Black Ducks {Anas ruhripes) appeared on 

 Overpeck Creek that day, although the ice had gone out but 



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