^°9of^] California Meeting of the A. O.U. 30I 



Hart Merriam, President of the A. O. U., in the chair, and Mr. 

 Charles R. Keyes, Secretary of the Cooper Club, acting as secre- 

 tary. Mr. Charles A. Keeler gave a brief address of welcome 

 in behalf of the Cooper Club, and an appropriate response was 

 made by the President of the A. O. U. An afternoon and an 

 evening session followed, and the meeting reconvened at 10.15 

 A. M., May 16, adjourning, sine die, at 12.30 P. M., of the same day. 



Thirteen eastern members of the A. O. U., and thirty-three 

 members of the Cooper Club were in attendance at the various 

 meetings, and about twenty visitors. 



The following papers were read : 



I. Origin and Distribution of the Ciiestnut-backed Chickadees. Joseph 

 Grinnell. 



*2. The Cassin Auklet. Howard Robertson. 



3. Recognition of Geographic Variation in Nomenclature. Leverett 

 Mills Loomis. 



* 4. Notes on the Fresno District. J. M. Miller. 



* 5. Do Valley Quail use Sentinels .' Jno. J. Williams. 



6. An Island Community, or Bird-Life on Laysan ; illustrated with 

 lantern slides. Walter K. Fisher. 



7. Notes on the Birds of Chili. Joseph Mailliard. 



8. Call Notes of the Bush-tit. Joseph Grinnell. 



9. General Habits of the Prairie Falcon. Donald A. Cohen. 



10. Oregon Birds caught with a Camera; illustrated with lantern 

 slides. Wm. L. Finley. 



II. The Bird Islands of Our Atlantic Coast ; illustrated with lantern 

 slides. Frank M. Chapman. 



12. Remarks on the A. O. U. Journey across the Continent. Louis 

 A. Fuertes. 



13. The Farallon Islands ; illustrated with lantern slides. \V. Otto 

 Emerson. 



Resolutions of thanks were adopted on the part of the A. O. U. 

 members for the courtesies extended to them by the members of 

 the Cooper Club and the Academy of Sciences, and to the A. O. 

 U. Committee of Arrangements for the California trip. 



The eastern A. O. U. members present were C. Hart Merriam, 

 President A. O. U. ; J. A. Allen, Louis B. Bishop, H. C. Bumpus, 

 Frank M. Chapman, John Lewis Childs, Mrs. E. B. Davenport, 

 J. Dwight, Jr., J. H. Fleming, L. A. Fuertes, W. W. Maires, T. S. 

 Palmer, Otto Widmann. 



* Read by title at the close of the session. 



