(Zonotrichia alhicollis) and a Swamp {Melospiza georgiana) 

 Sparrow May 25. 



The rainy weather on Sunday, May 16 (it showered much 

 of the morning), coupled with the fact that that day was not 

 so much the height of the big wave as was the corresponding 

 Sunday last year, kept down the number of species seen by 

 members on the annual try for a big list. Mr. Hix said that 

 he and Mr. Edward Desvernine in seven hours in the field in 

 the Dead River district, N. J., had noted 74 species, including 

 Greater Yellowlegs (Totanus melanoleucus) , White-crowned 

 Sparrow {Zonotrichia I. leucophnjs), two Lincoln's Sparrows 

 (Melospiza I. lincolni) and a Cape May Warbler {Dendroica 

 tigrina). Mr. Rogers said that he and Mr. W. DeW. Miller 

 had put in seventeen hours in the Watchung Mountains and 

 Passaic Valley north of Plainfield and had noted 89* fully 

 identified species as against 104 on little more than the same 

 route last year. Oddly enough, their list of MniotiUidce con- 

 sisted of the same 24 species each year. Among their less 

 usual birds this year were a flock of seven Least Sandpipers 

 (Pisohia minutilla), three Lincoln's Sparrows, a singing male 

 Tennessee Warbler {Vermivora peregrina) and seven Cape 

 May Warblers, some in song. 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves gave a talk on ''Emotion in Birds 

 as a Means to Photography," in which he illustrated with 

 many lantern-slides the ways in which birds' love of offspring, 

 curiosity, hunger, etc., could be taken advantage of by the 

 clever photographer. 



Mr. Charles H. Rogers showed a series of lantern-slides of 

 Costa Rican birds, from drawings by Fuertes and others, 

 from mounted specimens and from life, and gave notes on 

 their habits and other points observed by him on a trip made 

 in 1912. 



October 1'?, 1915. — The President in the chair. Eight 

 members (Dr. Dwight and Messrs. Chapin, Fleischer, Harper, 

 Hix, HoUister, Marks and Rogers) and a visitor present. 



Mr. Fleischer mentioned seeing an adult European Goldfinch 



*See "Plainfield, New Jersey, Bird Census," Wilson Bulletin, 1915, 

 403-407. 



