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Park eight Bob-white dead. They were in a group not twenty 

 inches across and had evidently been imprisoned by a crust 

 that had formed over them as they roosted in the snow. At 

 Runyon, N. J., on April 5, Mr. Rogers and Mr. W. DeW. Miller 

 had seen Black Ducks {Anas rubripes), Pintail {Dafila acuta), 

 Green-winged Teal (Nettion carolinense), two Ospreys (Pandion 

 haliaetus carolinensis) and a male Chipping Sparrow {Spizella 

 p. passerina). According to residents, the Ospreys bred there 

 last year. The Chippy noted had a light bill, an unusual 

 feature at this season. 



Mr. Griscom spoke of the Jerome Reservoir in the northern 

 section of the City as the Jamaica Pond of New York City. 

 Ten species of ducks had been seen there during March, in- 

 cluding Hooded Mergansers (Lophodytes cucullatus), Blue- 

 winged Teal {Querquedula discors), Redheads (Marila americana) 

 and Canvasbacks {M. valisineria). By request, Mr. Kieran^ 

 the original discoverer of the ducks on the Reservoir, spoke a 

 few words on this subject. Scaups of one or both species {M . 

 marila and M. affinis) and Goldeneyes (Clangula clangula 

 americana) arrived late last autumn, and American Mergansers 

 (Mergus americanus) in December. Canvasbacks first appeared 

 in January. That morning a few Scaups and Goldeneyes were 

 still present. 



Dr. Frank M. Chapman presented the paper of the evening, 

 entitled ''The American Museum Expedition to the Bogota 

 Region of Colombia." Together with Messrs. Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertes, George K. Cherrie, Geoffry O'Connell, Paul Howes 

 and Thomas Ring, he had sailed six hundred miles up the 

 Magdalena River and then ridden over the Eastern Andes to 

 their eastern base at an altitude of 1,600 feet. The wonderful 

 richness of the avifauna was described, and also how the results 

 of the expedition assisted toward solving the problem — whence 

 the region acquired its bird-life. The paper was illustrated 

 with numerous colored lantern-slides. 



April 28, 1914' — The President in the chair. Eleven mem- 

 bers and four visitors present. 



It was voted that Dr. Elliot's address at the Annual Dinner 

 should be issued separately at once. 



