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board. A series of lantern slides, showing the birds, their 

 nests, eggs, and young, illustrated the paper. 



December 22, 1908.— The President in the chair. Sixty- 

 one members and visitors present. 



Messrs. Frederic Gallatin, Jr., and P. W. Geer were elected 

 resident members of the Society. 



Mr. Ludlow Griscom reported seeing 'a Great Horned Owl 

 (Bubo virginianus) in Central Park on December 10. Mr. 

 George E. Hix remarked that one was seen in Central Park in 

 April, either 1900 or 1901, and was promptly shot. 



The first paper of the evening was by Mr. C. G. Abbott, 

 and was entitled '^ Random Remarks on Birding in England 

 (1908)." The speaker had visited England during the previous 

 summer, and he described those parts of his trip which were 

 of a more or less ornithological character. He told especially 

 of an expedition into the mountains of Camarthenshire, South 

 Wales, in search of nests of the Kite {Milvus milvus) and Buz- 

 zard {Buteo huteo); of a visit to the remarkable collection of 

 captive birds and animals belonging to the Duke of Bedford at 

 Woburn Abbey; and of a sojourn at the home of Mr. H. F. 

 Witherby, the English ornithologist, on the borders of the New 

 Forest in Hampshire. The paper was illustrated with pho- 

 tographs. 



The paper was commented upon by Dr. Dwight. 



The second paper of the evening was by Dr. Frank Overton, 

 and was entitled ''A Trip to Gardiner's Island during the 

 Summer of 1908." The speaker and a party of friends char- 

 tered a sail-boat and made' a few days' visit in June to this 

 charming island home of so many interesting birds. They 

 evidently made the best of their hmited time in the use of 

 their cameras, the results being presented to the Society in 

 the form of a long series of lantern slides. The birds showed 

 the effect of their protection by wonderful tameness, and an 

 especially fine series of Osprey (Pandfori haliaetus carolinensis) 

 pictures was obtained at close quarters. 



Dr. Overton closed his paper with a few pictures of birds 

 taken elsewhere than on Gardiner's Island. 



January 12, 1909. — The President in the chair. About 

 eighty-five members and visitors present. 



