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Mr. Rogers read extracts from reports on bird censuses 

 and how to take them, notably *'A Sectional Bird Census"* 

 by Frank L. Burns and the recent work in that line by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and suggested a 

 scheme of his own for a week's census of breeding birds. 



The President appointed the following a committee to 

 consider the ideas for club activities brought forward at the 

 previous meeting: Messrs. Weber, Cleaves, Harper, Nichols 

 and Rogers. 



Mr. Phihpp told of a trip made by himself and Mr. B. S. 

 Bowdish to northern New Brunswick the previous summer. 

 They had made a special study of the nesting of the Tennessee,! 

 Yellow Palm and Bay-breasted Warblers (Vermivora peregrina, 

 Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea and D. castanea), all of which 

 they had found breeding commonly. The Tennessees and 

 Yellow Palms nested for the most part rather gregariously on 

 dry ground under branches of scrub spruce. The Yellow 

 Palm's complement of eggs to a set was four or five, the 

 Tennessee's five or six or even seven, the Bay-breast's six or 

 seven. 



January 25, 1916.— The President in the chair. Sixteen 

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

 Granger, Harper, Hix, F. W. Hyde, J. M. Johnson, Kieran, 

 Lemmon, Marks, Nichols, Rogers, Weber and Woodruff) and 

 twenty-two visitors present. 



It was voted that the President appoint a committee to draw 

 up resolutions to express the Society's sense of loss in the death 

 of Dr. Daniel Giraud Elhot. 



Mr. Hix recorded two Horned Grebes (Coltjmhus auritus) in 

 Pelham Bay Park January 6, and that several persons whom 

 he knew had told him of a Phoebe {Sayornis phoehe) that had 

 been wintering in Bronx Park. 



Mr. Johnson reported an immature Glaucous Gull (Larus 

 hyperhoreus), two SanderHng (Calidris leucophma; uninjured), 

 at least one— probably several— Sharp-tailed Sparrows {Pas- 



* See this title in Wilson Bulletin, 1901, 84-103; also ''Second Sectional 

 Bird Census, 1914," Bird-Lore, XVII, 109-111. 



t See ''The Tennessee Warbler in New Brunswick," Auk, XXXIII, 1-8. 



