37 



Blackbird (Agelaius p. phoeniceus), and the presence of several 

 Bohemian Waxwings {Bombycilla garrula). 



Mr. Francis Harper was present and told at length of a trip 

 he made last summer as one of a Canadian Government expedi- 

 tion to the country between Great Slave and Athabasca Lakes. 



January 12, 1915. — The President in the chair. Nine mem- 

 bers and a visitor present. 



The Secretary pro tern, reported that he had written to the 

 Interstate Park Commission a letter as requested at the previous 

 meeting, and read the reply he had received from Mr. Geo. 

 W. Perkins, President of the New York Pahsades Park Com- 

 mission. Mr. Perkins assured us that there was no ground for 

 our fears, and that the intention w^as not to formalize the Park 

 but to keep it as nearly as possible in its natural condition, 

 but that a certain amount of forestry work was necessary in 

 order to do this. Mr. J. M. Johnson and Mr. Marks both 

 insisted, however, that the clearing out they had seen in the 

 Park was so excessive as to spoil completely the naturalness of a 

 large area. 



Mr. Clifford H. Pangburn, whose name had been proposed 

 at the previous meeting, was elected to Resident Membership. 



It was voted that the President appoint a Committee to make 

 tentative arrangements for the Annual Dinner. 



The more interesting of the local records reported follow: 

 a Kingfisher {Ceryle alcyon) ten miles west of Bridgeport, 

 Conn., January 3 (J. M. Johnson), another in the Castle Hill 

 section of the Bronx December 26 (Hix) and a third and also a 

 Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes g. gramineus) at Cranford and a flock 

 of eleven Horned Larks {Otocoris a. alpestris) at Aldene, N. J., 

 December 27 (Ball and Rogers); four Sanderling {Calidris 

 leucophcea) November 14 and one or two January 2 and a 

 Red-backed Sandpiper {Pelidna alpina sakhalina) December 25 

 at Long Beach, L. I. (Fleischer); on January 10, an adult 

 Black-backed Gull {Larus marinus) at the 130th Street Ferry, 

 a flock of 110 male and female Red-winged Blackbirds {Agelaius 

 p. phoeniceus) at Leonia and a Carolina Wren {Thryothorus I. 

 ludovicianus) at West Englewood, N. J. (J. M. Johnson and 

 Rogers) ; three more Carolina Wrens at Sandy Hook December 



