Evening star., 1915-05-26

in charge of some one familiar with
the bird lite of the District. Those
who acted as guides during the 1915
excursions were Mrs. Clarence Aspin-
wall, Wells W. Cooke, E. r. kalmbach
Leo u. Miner. S. w. Mellott, r. Moore
and +. A. Preble.
The Participants.
The six trips of 1915 were attended
by l.9 persons. of whom those present
on all the trips were Airs Clarence As
pinwall. Mrs. Ethna NJ. Agnew, Miss h.
3. Baird. Miss NJ. W. Curry. Miss Mar
garet Chapman. Miss NJ Cleaveland.
Mrs 6. r. Chamberlain. w w. Cooke.
Miss a. Dufour. c. r. Dufour. Miss II. A.
Denison. Miss L. B. Fisher. Miss Lii
liam Farnham, Miss B. P. Galiher. Miss
c. +. Kelsey. Mrs. NJ. j. Mclean. Leo
D. Miner. Mrs. Edith A. Miner. S. w.
Mellott. Raymond Moore, c. H. Ste
phepson. Mrs. c. H. Stephenson and
Catherine Tonge-twenty-three in all,
roll of the Audubon Society. Among
these are three who have not missed a
trip for seven years. The following
were present on all but one of the
trips; Mrs. Frank Farlin: Miss Florence
Layton. Miss L. II. Maurice. +. A.
Preble. J. Stephenson and Miss Lucille
w Wilkinson. All but two of the out
iuas were attended by H. l.. Adams.
Miss Helen r. Childs. Miss Mabel
Grandin. Mrs. Ivah 3. Jones. Miss
Nellie r. l.. Mclean. Miss Fanny Suter
and Miss Mary Suter. Those who We're
present on three occa asiOns included
Edward Beale. {. W. Broomall, Mrs. Z.
w Broomall. Miss Marie Boynton. Mrs.
e. e. Gould. Miss Margaret Gould. f, \.
Hin. Edward Jones, Miss Elizabeth
Randall. Mrs. f. G. Seward. Paul 5.
Seward w :. Seward, F. C. Smith and
Walter Webb. Two of the trips were
attended by Scovill Aspinwall. Miss
Elizabeth andrews. Miss Lily Buehler.
s crosby. Miss Katharine Chapman.
s NJ Grouberger. Miss Mary Harris.
Miss F. Holern. Miss Edith keleher.
Miss Isa belle MAYNARD. Mrs. :. w. Mel
Mabel Perry. Wentworth Peirce. Mrs.
T. Rust Smith. Miss Hope NJ. Soule.
Clarence r. Shoemaker, Miss Katherine
II. stuart Miss Ella c. Thayer. Miss +.
L. Watts A. q. Whitney and Mrs. 4. G.,
Whitney \ single days excursion was
en- loved by hfty-three additional per
sons.
Species Observed.
The species of birds seen OH each of
the six trips were the bluebird. robin,
chickadee tufted titmouse. Carolina
wren. brown thrasher. mocking bird,
swallow. barn swallow. purple martin,
cardinal. chewink. song. field and chip
ping Sparrows. goldhnch purple
:.raci>lc, meadowlark, fish crow. com
mon crow bluejay, phoebe, h1cker,
dovny woodpeckcr. turkey vuiture ana
mourning dove--twenty-seve species
In addition there were seen on the hrst
trip the yellow palm warbler. swamp
sparrow. rusty grackle, Wilson snipe
and pintail duck-five species not seen
on any subsequent trip. and the hermit
thrush, blue-gray gnatcatcher. ruby
crowned kinglet, brown creeper,
myrtle warbler. pine warbler, Louisi-
ana watcr-thrush. cedarbird. Junco;
yhite-throated sparrow, red winged
blackbird, kingfisher. sparrow haw
and killdeer-fourteen species seen on
some, but not all of the later trips:
The trip to Dyke added the wood
thrush. white belled nuthatch. house
wren. parula. yellow. prairie and yell
low -throated warblers: ovenbird. Mary
land yellow throat, redstart. white
eyed vireo. ellowthroated vireo. tree
swallow. Henslow sparrow, grasshop-
per sparrow. purple finch. savannah
sparrow. COW bird. chimney swift. whip
poorwill red headed. red-bellied and
hairy oodpecker: screech owl, osprey.