actually upon the ground. The speaker exhibited a series of 

 lantern slides representing the Ospreys and their young and 

 nests. Other bird-inhabitants of the island were also pictured, 

 such as Spotted Sandpiper, Piping Plover, Pheasant, Wilson's 

 Tern, etc. The preliminary part of the paper dealt with a short 

 visit to Montauk Point prior to the Gardiner's Island trip. 



January 10, 1905. — The President in the Chair. Twenty 

 members and visitors present. 



Mr. J. A. Weber was elected a resident member of the 

 Society. 



Dr. D wight reported Dovekies {Alle alle) recently driven 

 ashore on Long Island in numbers. Mr. S. H. Chubb reported 

 seeing a Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) in New York 

 Harbor on January 2. 



Dr. Jonathan D wight, Jr., presented ''The Gulls of New 

 York and their Plumages" (Published in part in Auk, xxiii, 

 1906, pp. 26-43, col. pL). 



January 2Jf, 1905. — The President in the chair. Sixteen 

 members and visitors present. 



Dr. Dwight reported the continued occurrence of Dovekies 

 on the Long Island coast, three having been sent to him from 

 there since the last meeting. He said that the birds were in 

 a very emaciated condition, which applied also to many of the 

 ducks which had recently come into his hands. 



Dr. Robert T. Morris reported large numbers of American 

 Coots (Fulica americana) observed by him at the eastern end 

 of Long Island last November. At least one thousand were 

 seen on Great Pond alone, which was considered no unusual 

 number by the inhabitants of the region. 



Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., presented a paper entitled "Some 

 of the Rare Birds of New York State." He divided his sub- 

 ject into purely accidental visitors, stragglers from the north, 

 and stragglers from the south. He described some thirty 

 species, of which skins were shown, and in some cases commoner 

 birds with which they might be confused were compared and 

 the distinguishing features pointed out. 



