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serherhulus caudacutus) and a Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza 

 georgiana) seen by himself, Mr. LaDow and Mr. Rogers at 

 Long Beach January 16. 



Mr. Nichols said that he had seen on January 19 from the 

 23d Street Ferry, an adult Iceland Gull {Larus leucopterus) . 

 He had noted the smaller size, paler mantle and less heavily 

 built head and bill as compared with the adult Herring Gulls 

 (L. argentatus) present; the pearl-gray of the wings faded 

 gradually into white toward the edge and tip, and there was 

 no black. 



Dr. G. Clyde Fisher remarked that he had seen Goldeneyes 

 {Clangula clangula americana) as well as Mergansers {Mer- 

 ganser americanus) on the Jerome Reservoir January 23. 



Mr. George K. Cherrie gave the paper of the evening, en- 

 titled, ''Nesting Habits of Some South American Birds." 

 From his many years' experience he gave some of the most 

 interesting cases observed, illustrating many of them with 

 lantern-slides. There was considerable discussion of the paper 

 and Mr. Chapin told of a number of close parallels in the case 

 of certain Congo birds, of quite unrelated species, to those just 

 described by Mr. Cherrie. 



February 8, 1916. — The President in the chair. Eight 

 members (Dr. Dwight, Cleaves, Fleischer, Harper, Hix, 

 Marks, Nichols and Rogers) and a visitor present. 



It was voted unanimously that on the occasion of the 

 coming Annual Dinner the Society's medal be presented to 

 Dr. J. A. Allen in recognition of the value of his contributions 

 to the sciences of mammalogy and ornithology. The Chair 

 appointed Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Rogers a committee to make 

 all arrangements necessary for the Dinner. 



It was decided to publish as soon as possible after the 

 Annual Meeting an ''Abstract" to contain the minutes of the 

 meetings of the year ending March 14, the report of the bird- 

 banding work and any other acceptable material received in 

 time. 



Mr. Nichols gave a brief paper on " The Song Season of 1915." 

 From careful observations made during this one season, he 

 divided tentatively our common singing birds into four groups, 



