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features which have made it so successful an organization, and 

 which the members of the Linnsean Society might find sug- 

 gestive in their own work. 



October 10, 1911. — The President in the chair. Seventeen 

 members and about twelve visitors present. 



The Secretary read a letter from Miss G. E. Taft, of New 

 York City, protesting against the tagging of birds as small as 

 Warblers {Mniotiltidce) , as suggested in a leaflet of directions 

 prepared by the Society's bird-banding committee for the 

 American Bird Banding Association. The letter was referred 

 to the committee for attention. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis was elected a resident member of the 

 Society. 



It was voted to suspend the next regular meeting of the 

 Society, which would have fallen upon October 24, and to 

 hold in its place a joint meeting with the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies on October 31. 



Mr. H. H. Cleaves reported that on September 24 he had 

 seen a Bald Eagle (Haliceetus I. leucocephalus) pursuing a Fish 

 Hawk {Pandion haliaetus caroUnensis) at Great Kills, Staten 

 Island. The latter was forced to drop the fish it was carrying, 

 but the Eagle, swooping, failed to catch the booty before it 

 fell to the ground. 



Mr. C. H. Rogers reported picking up the remains of a 

 Dovekie (Alle alle) at Long Beach, Long Island, on May 30. 

 The bird had evidently been dead for a long time. Mr. 

 Pearson remarked that he had seen two Dovekies off the 

 coast of Maine in the middle of July. 



Messrs. J. M. Johnson and B. S. Bowdish reported on 

 the nest of Duck Hawks (Falco peregrinus anatum) on the 

 Palisades of the Hudson, for the protection of which the 

 Society had voted an appropriation of ten dollars at its meeting 

 of May 9. It appeared that the old birds had been disturbed 

 and kept from the nest for such a length of time that the 

 young had died from exposure. Five dollars of the appropri- 

 ation had been used, and the balance returned to the Treasurer 

 of the Society. 



Mr. G. E. Hix recorded a Northern Phalarope {Lohipes 



