THE OSPREY. 



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THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



THE NORTHERN DIVISION. 

 HE Annual Meeting of the Northern Division all the mellow pipe of the I'lumed Partridge echoed 



I was held at the home of Chester Barlow in 

 San Jose, Jan. 8. Edward K. Taylor, of Ala- 

 meda, was elected to active membership. The an- 

 nual election of officers for iSg8 resulted as follows : 

 President, W. Otto Emerson ; Vice-President, Rich- 



from hillside to hillside. 



"Later in the day one of our party found a nest of 

 American Dipper, built entirely of moss, on the pier 

 of a bridge that was used daily by a number of six- 

 teen-mule teams. This was on May 25 and it held 



ard C. McGregor ; Secretary, Chester Barlow, and two addled eggs and two that were nearly hatched. 

 Treasurer, Donald A. Cohen The President ap- A careful watch was kept for the second set and upon 

 pointed committees for the year as follows : On repairing to the bridge the day it was due the collec- 

 Program, H. R. Taylor and R. B. McLain ; on Pub- tor found that a 'native' had just removed the nest 

 lication, D. A. Cohen and C. Barlow. The program ^nd four eggs for some children. Another nest of 

 of the evening was opened by the reading of a paper the Dipper was noted half a mile down the river 

 by Henry B. Kaeding entitled, where a dam of logs had been thrown across and the 

 A SUMMER IN THE SIERRA NEVADAS. water poured over in a solid, curved sheet 50 feet 

 "Our first camp (May 25th, 1896) was pitched at broad, falling 20 or 25 feet, and away under this fall, 

 a deserted saw-mill on a brawling river of snow- on the dripping logs and in the dim green light was 

 water, at an altitude of 4600 feet. Next morning I the nest. Almost needless to say it was not disturbed, 

 went out to investigate the country. A few Plumed " About'June 6th we took a set of 4 eggs of White- 

 Partridges and one Hermit Warbler, also one set of headed Woodpecker, with parent, and a day or two 



eggs each of 

 Western Robin 

 and Black 

 Phoebe, and a 

 male White- 

 headed Wood- 

 pecker were se- 

 cured. Bird- 

 life was very 

 abundant; from 

 the tops of the 

 tall bushes 

 came the songs 

 of the Thick- 

 billed S p a r - 

 rows, — a sweet- 

 ly beautiful 

 succession of 

 liquid notes, 

 resemb ling 

 nothing I have 

 ever heard else- 

 where. H u n - 

 dreds of feet 

 higher, in the 

 first rays of the 

 rising sun a 

 Townse nd's 

 Solitaire sang his irregular matins 



WATER OUZEL S NEST UNDER A BRIDGE. 

 Sec ■--/ Siiiiinifr in the S/ora Xauiifas.' 



after that cut 

 out 5 young 

 from a nest cav- 

 ity bored into 

 large splinter 

 standing on a 

 saw stump and 

 about nine 

 feet from the 

 ground. They 

 were all white, 

 without a single 

 tuft of down on 

 them and the 

 upper mandi- 

 ble was much 

 shorter than 

 the lower. 



"As an in- 

 stance of the 

 eftect of alti- 

 tude on breed- 

 ing dates: June 

 14, at 6500 feet 

 a set of 6 fresh 

 eggs of White- 

 headed Wood- 

 pecker was se- 



while in like alti- cured, and the male caught on the nest, in a cavity 5 

 tude the notes of the Olive-sided Flycatcher lent their feet up in a burnt stub. It was at the camp at the saw- 

 weird melody to the medley. Occasionally would be mill that we saw the first pair of Harlequin Ducks, 

 heard the queer little note of Silfa pyg!ii<ca, or the and subsequently ascertained that there were two pairs 

 song of a Hermit Warbler, while the underbrush was breeding there. We located the situation of the last 

 tenanted by Calaveras and Macgillivray's Warblers year's nests, but failed to find the '1896 site.' Upon 

 and Wright's and Hammond's Flycatchers. A little our return to this vicinity we found that a brood had 

 further down the hill could be heard the notes of been hatched. This would make the nesting time of 

 Cassin's Vireo and Louisiana Tanager, while above the Harlequin Duck at 4500 feet altitude, about 



