THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 



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Here is the Right Kind. 

 Mr. Alfred Cookman of Moneta, Cal- 

 ifornia, is a hustling active member, a 

 good missionary in interesting others. 

 Previous to his becoming president of 

 our Luther Burbank Chapter in the 

 University of Southern California, Los 

 Angeles, he established the West Point 

 Club of Long Beach, which now has an 

 enrollment of forty-five boys. This 

 club is to become a Junior Chapter ot 

 The Aeassiz Association, under the 



"Two weeks previous, the w r riter ad- 

 dressed the Los Angeles Audubon So- 

 ciety in the parlor of the Hotel Clark 

 in Los Angeles at their regular meet- 

 ing on the subject, 'Observation of 

 Bird Life in the Dominguez Slough.' 

 The area embraced by the willow bot- 

 tom was included in this lecture for it 

 is a part of the Dominguez Slough. 

 The object of my lecture was to pre- 

 sent a list of the birds that inhabit 

 this locality from personal observa- 



MR COOKMAX AND MR. FULLER AND A PART OF THE PICTURESQUE PLACE TO WHICH 

 THEY GUIDED A COMPANY OF NATURE STUDENTS AND HELPED THEM EXPLORE. 



charge of Mr. Fuller, one of the young 

 men developed in nature interests un- 

 der the influences of the AA. Of the 

 changes in the Luther Burbank Chap- 

 ter Mr. Cookman reports as follows : 



"I am now business manager ot the 

 Luther Burbank Chapter. Miss Lena 

 Kirkpatrick is our new president. Pro- 

 fessor Benton is Honorary President. 

 Next summer, I am planning to teach 

 ornithology at Forest Home in the San 

 Gabriel Mountains. This outline 



course in bird study will be given un- 

 der the auspices of the AA. Last sum- 

 mer, Dr. Miller taught the class and 

 there were nearly a hundred women 

 and men in attendance." 



Mr. Cookman and Mr. Fuller are 

 making earnest efforts to broaden the 

 scope of some bird students so that 

 they will study all nature in the AA 

 SDirit. They recently escorted several 

 friends to an investigation of the 'wil- 

 low bottom' of the Los Angeles river, 

 nineteen miles south of Los Angeles. 

 Mr. Cookman sends these interesting 

 notes of the excursion : 



tions made during the two years that 

 I have been carrying on an ornitholog- 

 ical survey in the San Pedro Harbor 

 territory. The Slough and the willow 

 bottom form the north boundary of 

 this territory. I also wished to preparc 

 the members for the field trip by sub- 

 mitting my plans for bird study and to 

 bring them pictures of the locality we 

 were to visit. 



The Long Beach flyer soon conveyed 

 us to the desired locality. We arrived 

 at Cerritos Station and were met with 

 a surprise. The station is one mile 

 south of the willow bottom. A large 

 flock of yellow-headed blackbirds — we 

 estimate two thousand individual birds 

 —flew down almost at our feet and 

 were welcomed with ^ cry of delight 

 from all of us. The blond tourists are 

 migrating through this locality. We 

 watched them soar hither and thither 

 for nearly an hour. 



Several species were added to our 

 list as we approached the will 3w bot- 

 tom. The Los Angeles River rises 

 in the tall ^now-capped San Gabriel 



