THE OOLOGIST 47 
Cassinia is too well known to need 
any extended reference by us. It is 
sufficient to say that the present num- 
ber is fully up 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 27th 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, Montague, 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 there are a number of good half 
tones accompanying and showing new 
subspecies of birds there described: — 
Valdez Spruce Grouse, Montague, 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 known birds. Concluding 
with a note on the avifaunal relation- 
ships of Prince William’s Sound Dis- 
trict where the Hudsonian and Alpine 
Arctic Zones overlap to a large de- 
gree. 
We are in receipt of two parts of 
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Volume 5 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- 
wicki marinensis. a new sub-species 
of the Bewick’s Wren supposed to in- 
habit the humit coast belt North of 
the Golden Gate in Marin 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 
sandwichensis nevadensis, 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. 
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Cuban Trogon. 
On July 20, 1909, during a very se- 
vere rainy season I found a nest of 
the Spindalis petrei 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 
