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eluded the Red - shafted Flicker, Violet- 

 green Swallow, Audubon's Warbler, Red- 

 backed Junco, which was found nesting, 

 Mountain Chickadee, Pygmy Nuthatch, 

 Grace's Warbler, Black - throated Gray 

 Warbler, Cassin's Vireo, Poor-Will, Long- 

 crested Jay, Woodhouse's Jay and Spurred 

 Towhee. 



In the Canon the Rock Wren, Canon 

 Wren, Lozuli Bunting and Ash-throated 

 Flycatcher were characteristic species. 



At sunrise, on the 12th, we stopped at 

 Hesperia, among the tree yuccas of the 

 Mojave Desert, and in many respects the 

 two hours passed here were among the 

 most enjoyable of our journey. Birds and 

 flowers were both surprisingly abundant; 

 the yuccas and the Cactus Wrens which 

 were nesting in them being objects of spe- 

 cial interest. 



Toiling through the winding cuts of the 

 Cajon Pass, we emerged upon the Pacific 

 Slope and shortly were at San Bernardino, 

 in a region where irrigation and cultivation 

 have created a truly wonderful transforma- 

 tion. For miles our track was almost con- 

 tinuously bordered by orange groves, while 

 Riverside, where an all too short stop was 

 made, seemed, in truth, a paradise of birds 

 and flowers. 



On the evening of this remarkable day 

 Los Angeles was reached, and here a recep- 

 tion was tendered the members of the 

 Union by the southern division of the 

 Cooper Club. The following day was de- 

 voted to an ascent of Mount Low, where, at 

 an altitude of 5,000 feet, many birds previ- 

 ously seen about the rim of the Grand Canon 

 were again encountered. 



At half-past seven o'clock, the evening 

 of the same day, the final stage of the 

 journey was begun, and after a most inter- 

 esting ride on the Southern Pacific railroad 

 through the Salinas Valley, the first, we 

 trust, of many transcontinental tours of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union was con- 

 cluded at five o'clock, Thursday afternoon, 

 May 14. 



Members of the Cooper Club and of the 

 Academy of Sciences were on hand to pilot 

 us to our various lodging places, and. in- 

 deed, throughout our stay the kindly and in- 



valuable attentions of the resident ornitholo- 

 gists never failed us ; to them is due not 

 only the success of the meeting but the 

 many delightful experiences which befell us 

 individually after its adjournment. 



Tre first session of the joint meeting of 

 the Cooper Club and the A. O. U. was 

 held in the Lecture Hall of the California 

 Academy of Sciences May 15, at 11 A. m., 

 and subsequent sessions were held on the 

 afternoon and evening of the same day and 

 on the morning of the following day. On 

 both days those in attendance were elabo- 

 rately entertained at luncheon by the mem- 

 bers of the California Academy of Sciences. 



On the afternoon of the i6th, in re- 

 sponse to an invitation from President Jor- 

 dan, a visit was paid to Stanford University. 



Several of the papers presented at the' 

 meeting were of more than usual value, par- 

 ticularly Mr. Joseph Grinnell's communi- 

 cation on the ' Origin and Distribution of 

 the Chestnut-backed Chickadees,' and Mr. 

 Walter K. Fisher's account of the bird-life 

 of Laysan ; while the lantern slides exhib- 

 ited by Mr. Fisher and Mr. W. L. Finley 

 have never been exceeded in interest and 

 scientific value by any shown at our A. O. U. 

 meeting. 



A program of the several sessions is 

 appended : ' Origin and Distribution of the 

 Chestnut-backed Chickadees, ' Joseph Grin- 

 nel ; 'The Cassin Auklet,' Howard Robert- 

 son ; 'Recognition of Geographic Variation 

 in Nomenclature,' Leverett Mills Loomis ; 

 'Notes on the Fresno District,' J. M. Miller; 

 ' Do Valley Quail use Sentinels? " John J. 

 Williams ; ' An Island Community, or 

 Bird- Life on Laysan,' illustrated with lan- 

 tern slides, Walter K. Fisher; 'Notes on 

 the Birds of Chili,' Joseph Mailliard; ' Call 

 Notes of the Bush -tit,' Joseph Grinnell ; 

 'General Habits of the Prairie Falcon,' 

 Donald A. Cohen ; ' Oregon Birds Caught 

 with a Camera,' illustrated with lantern 

 slides, Wm. L. Finley ; ' The Bird Islands 

 of Our Atlantic Coast,' illustrated with lan- 

 tern slides, Frank M. Chapman; 'Remarks 

 on the A. O. U. Journey across the Conti- 

 nent,' Louis A. Fuertes ; 'The Farallon 

 Islands,' illustrated with lantern slides, M. 

 Otto Emerson. 



