droma leucorhoa) of Great Duck Island, Maine, were also 

 shown and described. 



May 28 J 1911, — The President in the chair. Fifteen mem- 

 bers and twenty-five visitors present. 



Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson was elected a resident member of 

 the Society. 



Mr. W. W. Grant reported for the bird-banding committee 

 that although the management of the American Bird Banding 

 Association had not yet been formally turned over to the 

 Linnaean Society, the committee was pushing forward with 

 the work and had ordered some new dies made. 



Mr. H. H. Cleaves gave an account of his successful experi- 

 ment in inducing a Fish Hawk (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) 

 to seize an artificial golden carp (Carassius auratus) in Wolf's 

 Pond, Staten Island. He showed, among several other slides, 

 a unique photograph of the bird rising from the water with the 

 booty in its talons. 



Mr. Witmer Stone, of the Delaware Valley Ornithological 

 Club, was the guest of the evening, and gave an address on 

 "The Fauna and Flora of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and 

 their Relationships." He outlined the boundaries of this 

 very interesting portion of the coastal plain, and discussed 

 the distribution of its animal and plant life, as compared 

 with that of the adjoining regions. Two very different 

 faunas (Carolinian and Alleghenian) overlap in these pine 

 barrens, for certain Carolinian forms, as Mr. Stone explained, 

 here reach the normal northern limit of their range, while 

 certain boreal forms are also found breeding, especially in the 

 bogs. The speaker gave extended notes on many species of 

 mammals, birds, insects, and plants which occur in the region, 

 and a large number of them were represented in the lantern 

 slides which illustrated the paper. The mosquitoes, he said, 

 discouraged to a considerable extent occupation and develop- 

 ment of the land, and thereby rendered good service in helping 

 to preserve the pine barrens in their natural state. 



At the close of his paper Mr. Stone, by special request, made 

 some informal remarks concerning the Delaware Valley Ornitho- 

 logical Club and its activities. He described some of the 



