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Cassinia is too well known to need 

 any extended reference by us. It is 

 sufficient to say that the present num- 

 ber is fully tip to the standard of form- 

 er numbers, and is a credit to the 

 Club. 



Volume .5, Numbers 11 and 12, Uni- 

 versity of California publication in 

 Zoology. 



These papers relate to the mammals 

 of 1908, Alexander Exploring Expedi- 

 tion by Edmund Heller, and to the 

 birds of the same expedition by Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Grinnell; the latter 

 giving a list of eighty-nine birds dis- 

 covered by the explorers on the is- 

 lands and main land visited between 

 May 2Tth and September 21st. The 

 territory visited was all in the vicin- 

 ity of Prince William's Sound and the 

 Archipelago of that region, the party 

 ascending as far North as Valdez, 

 camp being made at the head of Cor- 

 dova Bay and on the following islands: 



Hawkins, Hinchinbrock, Green, La- 

 touche, ISIontague, Hoodoo, Port, Nel- 

 juan, Grafton, Night, Chenega, Disk, 

 Eleanor, Naked and Elemar. 



A very readable description of all 

 the places visited by the expedition 

 prefaces the lists of animals and birds, 

 and th^re afe'k number of good half 

 tones accompahying and showing new 

 subspecies of birds there described: — 

 Valdez Spruce Grouse, ]\Iontague. Rock 

 Ptarmigan, Northwestern Belted King- 

 fisher, Valdez Downy Woodpecker, 

 Valdez! Fox Sparrow, Valdez Chestnut- 

 sided Chicadee, resting upon more or 

 less substantial alleged differences 

 from other kribwn birds. Concluding 

 with a note on the avifaunal relation- 

 ships 6f Prince William's Sound Dis- 

 trict where the Hudsonian and Alpine 

 Arctic Zones overlap to a large de- 

 gree. 



Volume T) of the University of Califor- 

 nia publications in Zoology; the first 

 describing a new sub-species of the 

 Cow Bird supposed to inhabit the 

 Great Basin between the Rocky Moun- 

 tains and the Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains. 



The second describing two hereto- 

 fore unnamed Wrens, Thryomanes be- 

 wlcki marlnensis. a new sub-species 

 of the Bewick's Wren supposed to in- 

 habit the humit coast belt North of 

 the Golden Gate in :\Iarin and Sonoma 

 Counties, California. The second, 

 Thryomanes bewicki catalinae, anoth- 

 er new sub-species of the Bewick 

 Wren inhabiting the Santa Catalina 

 Island and Southern California. 



Also describing a new sub-species of 

 the Savanna Sparrow, Passerculus 

 sandwlchensis nevadensls, supposed to 

 inhabit the Great Basin country be- 

 tween the Rocky Mountains and the 

 Sierra Nevada Mountains. All descrip- 

 tions being by the well known orni- 

 thologist. Professor Joseph Grinnell. 



We are In receipt of two parts of 



Cuban Trogon. 

 On July 20, 1909, during a very se- 

 vere rainy season I found a nest of 

 the Spindalis petrci referred to by Mr. 

 Read in his notes as the Isle of Pines 

 Trogon, but which I prefer to call the 

 Cuban Trogon in Eastern Cuba. It 

 contained three young about a week 

 old. The nest was twenty-five feet 

 from the ground in a hole in a live 

 tree where a branch had rotted, form- 

 ing a hole two feet deep at the bottom 

 of which and without any soft lining, 

 were the three young. The parent 

 bird (I only saw one upon each of 

 my visits), would fly into the hole and 

 out again everytime carrying food. 

 This action was what first called by 

 attention to the nest. By throwing 

 sticks at the bird I managed to make 

 It drop the food it was carrying, and 



