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recorded an immature Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes 

 erythrocephalus) at Riverdale January 20. 



Mr. Quarles reported that a freshly killed female Cowbird 

 {Molothrus a. ater) which had previously lost a foot had been 

 picked up at Forest Hills, L. I., December 10. He and Mr. 

 Rogers had seen the specimen. 



Mr. Quarles told also of some Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa um- 

 hellus) which had been raised in captivity and said that in one 

 case last summer the cock and the hen had relieved each other 

 in the duty of incubation. 



The speaker of the evening was Mr. Roy W. Miner, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, and his subject was 

 ''The Fauna of our Tide-Pools." After explaining a series of 

 lantern-slides showing the nature of tide-pools at points from 

 Nahant, Mass., to the Bay of Fundy, Mr. Miner described the 

 various forms of life inhabiting them — barnacles, starfish, 

 anemones, worms, and other invertebrates, illustrating his talk 

 vnth. numerous colored slides. 



February 9, 1915. — The Secretary jpro tern, in the chair. 

 Eleven members and a visitor present. In the absence of all 

 other officers, the Chair appointed Mr. Francis Harper Secre- 

 tary pro tern. 



Mr. Nichols, for the Dinner Committee, reported that the 

 Committee advised not having a dinner this year. After con- 

 siderable discussion it was decided to have on the evening of 

 the Annual Meeting an informal dinner without a guest of honor 

 or invited speakers, the business program to follow the dinner. 



Mr. Cleaves reported on the financial condition and the com- 

 ing season's needs of the Bird-Banding Association and asked 

 for an appropriation of one hundred dollars, which would be 

 needed even after the receipt of all dues and contributions. 

 This sum was voted unanimously. 



Mr. Nichols told of a migration of Red-headed Woodpeckers 

 (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) about Englewood last autumn 

 during which he had noticed one bird in particular hiding 

 acorns in a stub at Grantwood. On February 6 he had seen a 

 Red-head eating acorns from that stub. If it was indeed the 

 same bird, its head had changed from brown to red in the 



