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THE OOLOGI8T 



BUILDING 



The mail brings information tliat 

 Ralph J. Donahue, of Bonner Springs, 

 Kansas, one of the oologists of that 

 territory, is doing like the other mem- 

 bers of the Aves family viz: 



Building a nest in the Spring. In 

 other words erecting a neat little home 

 for his bride of a few months. 



— R. M. B. 



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CHICAGO BIRDS 



In looking over my field notes for 

 1&20, I thought the following might be 

 of interest to some of the readers of 

 The Oologist. 



Jan. 25, 1920, Bohemian Waxwing 

 (10) Niles, 111. (Rare). 



Mar. 23, 1920, Sandhill Crane (6) Or 

 land, 111. (Rare.) 



May 16, 1920, Cedar Waxwing (15) 

 Tessbille, 111. (Early?) 



May 23, 1920, Cliff Swallow (1) 

 Taken Beach, 111. (Rare.) 



May 31, 1920, Lesser Scaup (7) Slo- 

 cum Lake, 111. (Late.) 



June 13, 1920, Hairy Woodpecker, 

 Grass Lake, III. Pair breeding. 



June 13, 1920, Downy Woodpecker, 

 Grass Lake, 111. Pair breeding 



June 27, 1920, Woodcock (young in 

 down), Niles, 111. (Late.) 



Oct. 31, 1920, Artie, 3-toed Wood- 

 pecker, Taken, Tessville, 111. (Rare.) 

 George W. Friedrich, 



Chicago, 111. 



THE COOPER CLUB 



Wliile in California in January, ye 

 Editor had the pleasure of attending a 

 monthly meeting of the Southern Di- 

 vision of the Cooper Club as is his 

 custom while in that territory. It is 

 a pleasure to renew our acquaintance 

 with the best lot of ornithologists that 

 we come in contact with at such times. 



The Southern California bird men 

 are not surpassed in personal charm, 

 and ornithological equipment by any 

 we have met anywhere. 



A sadness, however, entered our 

 mind in noting the absence of Frank 

 Daggett, Curator of the splendid 

 museum at Los Angeles, and most en- 

 thusiastic member of this organization, 

 whom the editor in his many different 

 years visiting in California had 

 learned to admire. 



We were pleased to meet Dr. Louis 

 B. Bishop, of New Hazen, Conn., at 

 this meeting. He is spending the win- 

 ter in Hollywood. 



The main subject of discussion at 

 this meeting was some far reaching 

 and fundamental changes in the con- 

 stitution of the Club. If these are ad- 

 ministered in the spirit in which they 

 seem to have been proposed and dis- 

 cussed and adopted, they will be bene- 

 ficial. However, on the other hand 

 they open a wide door to narrowness 

 and abuse. — R. M. B. 



BOOKS RECEIVED 

 "Territory In Bird Life" 

 being a brief review of a new book 

 fraught with absorbing interest to the 

 oologist by H. Elliot Howard. Pub- 

 lished by John Murray, London, 21s. 



Not since the far-reaching dis- 

 coveries of Darwin and Wallace were 

 first announced to an astonished world 

 has any new theory been enunciated, 

 at least so far as birds are concerned, 

 so revolutionary as that contained in 

 Mr. Howard's great work. 



Mr. Howard tears to pieces the older 

 theories in regard to bird warfare in 

 the spring It is well known of course 

 that the males of most migrating 

 species arrive in advance of the fe- 

 males and he would have it that each 

 male, on arrival, possesses himself of 

 a small territory from which he assidu- 

 ously expels all instruders of his own 

 species, and, singing lustily, proclaims 

 himself owner and lord. His song 

 serves another purpose and attracts 

 the females when they, in turn, arrive 



