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gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila cceruled) at the same place, 

 on September 12, 1895. 



Mr. Stephen A. Krom said that he had found the Turkey 

 Vulture (Cathartes aura) very common at Lebanon, Hun- 

 terdon County, New Jersey, during the past summer, where 

 it occurs regularly. 



L. B. Bishop, M. D., exhibited the skin of a Shrike, a 

 bird of the year, taken at New Haven, Connecticut, on 

 September 18, 1895, in a plumage between Lanius ludovi- 

 cianus and Lanius ludovicianus excnbitorides. Dr. Bishop 

 gave several autumn records of birds observed, notably one 

 of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper ( Tryngites subruficollis) taken 

 on the marshes near New Haven, Connecticut, on Septem- 

 ber 30, 1895, by Mr. C. C. Trowbridge. 



Mr. L. S. Foster read a letter from Mr. John H. Sage, 

 recording the capture by him of a typical Lawrence's 

 Warbler (Helminthophila lawrencei) at Portland, Connecti- 

 cut, on May 10, 1895, and of a male Brewster's Warbler 

 (Helminthophila leucobronchialis), at the same place, on May 

 13, 1895 Five specimens of the latter Warbler were seen 

 in Portland during the month of May, 1895, and a pair of 

 Worm-eating Warblers (Helmitherus vermivorus) spent the 

 summer of 1895 there. A specimen of the King Rail (Ral- 

 lies elegans) was shot on September 1, 1895, this being the 

 fourth local record. A flock of seventy-five White-winged 

 Scoters (Oidemia deglandi) were seen on October 4, 1895, 

 on the Connecticut River at Portland, and thoroughly 

 identified. 



Mr. L. S. Foster read a list of thirty-five birds observed 

 by him in Westchester County, New York, on May 30, 

 1895. 



October 22, 1895. — The President in the chair. Seven 

 members and three visitors present. 



J. A. Allen, Ph.D., presented the paper of the evening, 

 " On the Mammals of Southwestern Texas, from Field 

 Notes and Specimens Collected by Mr. H. P. Attwater." 

 [See Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, Vol. VIII., 1896, pp. 

 45-80.] 



