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months later, after a journey of 1,500 miles, at Santa Marta, on 

 the Caribbean Sea. With headquarters established at Cali, 

 in the province of Cauca, the party made collecting trips into 

 both the Coast Range and the Central Range of the Andes, 

 as well as among the valleys. An extensive series of bird 

 skins, including several new species, was secured. Mr. 

 Chapman illustrated his paper with a large number of lantern 

 slides, which gave those present an admirable idea of Colom- 

 bian vegetation and topography. Owing to the unfavorable 

 conditions, which rendered bird photography very difficult, 

 if not impossible in some cases, Mr. L. A. Fuertes, who was 

 a member of the expedition, had painted some of the birds 

 into Mr. Chapman's photographs of the vegetation, and the 

 resulting composite pictures were included among the colored 

 slides. Mr. Fuertes was present at the meeting, and spoke 

 ^or a few minutes on the birds whose portraits were thus 

 exhibited. 



January 23, 1912. — The President in the chair. Fourteen 

 members and about forty visitors present. 



Mr. R. L. Lemmon and Dr. R. Constantian were elected 

 resident members of the Society. 



Mr. H. H. Cleaves spoke of an interesting day which he 

 and Mr. Ludlow Griscom had spent in the field on Staten 

 Island on January 21. Among other birds, they had observed 

 2 Great Blue Herons {Ardea h. herodias), 2 Barn Owls, (Aluco 

 pratincola) , 4 Short-eared Owls (Asio flammeus) and a Flicker 

 (Colaptes auratus luteus). 



Mr. J. A. Weber recorded a Grackle {Quiscalus quiscula 

 subsp.) which he had seen at Pahsades Park, N. J., on 

 January 22. 



The paper of the evening, by Mr. C. William Beebe, was 

 entitled '* A Search for Pheasants in India and Borneo." Mr. 

 Beebe had returned a few months previously from one of the 

 most extensive ornithological expeditions ever organized; it 

 covered parts of Ceylon, India, Burma, Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo, China, and Japan, and entailed a globe-circHng 

 journey of over 50,000 miles. On the trip he had succeeded 

 in collecting representatives of each of the 22 known genera 



