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THE OOI.OCJIST. 



NEST AND EGGS OF WILSON'S PLOVER IN SITU. 



From Photo by M. T. Cleckley. 



After careful examination you will note the three eg?s in depression just be- 

 low the large valve of Fan Shell. They are even harder to see in reality owing 

 to protective coloratiou. 



noon session by "Impressions of Eng- 

 lish Bird-Life," illustrated by lantern 

 slides Besides giving a number of 

 views of English birds, the author 

 gave views of the home and town sur- 

 roundings of Gilbert White, as well 

 as other characteristic English coun- 

 try scenes, and contrasted the condi- 

 tions of bird life in England and this 

 country, England being described as 

 possessed of fewer species, but many 

 more individuals. 



The afternoon meeting opened with 

 Woods, and the Pocono Mountains of 

 Pennsylvania, by Wm. L. Bailey, Ard- 

 more, Pa. 



The Pocono Mountain region has 

 been but little worked as ornitholo- 

 gical territory, and the author enum- 

 rated many species included as nor- 

 mally more northern breeding birds, 

 some of them not having been pre- 

 viously recorded as breeding in Penn- 

 sylvanita. The paper on "A Lapland 



