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Mr. J. M. Johnson recorded four female Hooded Mergansers 



{Lophodijtes cucullatus) and five Scaup {Mnrila marila or M. 

 affinis) at Jerome Reservoir February 20. He reported that 

 birds — both species and individuals — had been remarkably- 

 scarce at Long Beach February 21. 



Mr. Chubb recorded twenty-five American Mergansers 

 (Mergus americanus) and ten American Goldeneyes (Clangula 

 clangula americana) on Jerome Reservoir duting the preceding 

 week. He told of a pair of Sparrow Hawks {Falco s. sparverius) 

 which had raieed a brood last spring in the wall of a house 

 near the 238th Street Subway Station. The space under the 

 ceiling had been utilized by the birds and here five eggs were 

 laid, the last on April 5. By May 20 the young were hatched, 

 and they left the nest between the 13th and 18th of June. 

 They were fed largely on Garter Snakes {Thamnophis sirtalis). 



Mr. F. E. Johnson recorded an immature Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) in the north of Yonkers 

 December 26. 



Mr. Quarles reported that the Supreme Court of Arkansas 

 had declared unconstitutional the law permitting the sending 

 of game out of IMississippi County, in the extreme northeastern 

 corner of the State. This is regarded as a significant victory 

 for bird protection, as great quantities of game have been 

 shipped to Chicago from this quarter. 



Mr. Quarles gave the first paper of the evening, entitled 

 '^The American Game Protective Association's Game Farm," 

 in which he told of the breeding and rearing of various ducks, 

 grouse and other game birds for propagation purposes, illus- 

 trating his account with lantern-slides of the farm and its 

 stock. 



Mr. J. M. Johnson then told of his experiences in '^Photo- 

 graphing the Mammals of Northwestern Wyoming," largely 

 in the Yellowstone National Park, and showed many lantern- 

 slides from photographs, taken often at very close quarters, of 

 mammals large and small. 



March 9, 1915. — Annual Meeting. The Vice-President in 

 the chair. Twenty members and a visitor present. This 

 meeting followed immediately the Third Annual Dinner, held 



