106 THE NIDOLOGIST 
fine Great Horned Owl and two eggs; Feb- 
ruary 5, a subscriber for the ‘‘Nrp.”’ 
CARL FRITZ HENNING. 
Wilfred H. Osgood and R. H. Beck are 
camping and collecting in the Sierras, hav- 
ing arranged to dispose of their bird skins 
Wie metices 
A.M. Shields and G. Frean Morcom’s 
collectors in Arizona, send in glowing re- 
ports, having secured many eggs of the 
rare Thrashers, includings seven sets of 
Leconte’s Thrasher, more than the total 
previously known to collections. 
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Cooper Ornithological Club. 
Been. Woo DIVISION met at the residence o 
C. H. Wood, Pasadena, March 30. <A motion 
was carried that propositions for membership ‘be 
considered one month before action be taken. A letter 
from Mr. W. B. Judson who is on an expedition in 
Arizona was read, 
The Northern Division met at the residence of W. H. 
Osgood at San Jose April 4. Upon suggestion of Mr. 
Emerson a Club Outing was arranged to take place in 
the Santa Cruz mountains, May 30-31. 
MAY MEETINGS. 
The Southern Division met in Los Angeles April 
27. Owing to ill-health the resignation of Mr. M.L. 
Wicks as Vice-President was accepted. The vacancy 
will be filled at the May meeting. It was voted to 
change the date of the monthly meeting from the last 
Monday evening to evening of the last Saturday in 
each month. The question of introducing Wild Turkeys 
in Southern California was discussed. Mr. Gaylord 
presented a paper on ‘‘Los Angeles County Records’’ 
in which the taking of the following specimens was 
noted: ‘On April 6, 1894 I took a partial albino spec- 
imen of Sficella socialts arizonae from a flock of about 
twenty-five birds of this species. 
Zonotrichia albicolis. 1 took a young female from 
a flock of Z, coronata on November 21, ’94, thus adding 
another record of this species from California, 
An adult male Coccathraustes vespertinus mon- 
tanus was taken by Mr. Towne at Pasadena, Decem- 
ber 28, 1894. The bird was not accompanied by 
individuals of its own species but was with a flock of 
Chondestes grammacus strigatus. 
A few flocks of Cyanocephalus cyanocephalus were 
seen flying north over Pasadena in the fall of 1894. 
T took a young female A/noztilta variain the Arroyo 
Seco at Pasadena, October 8, 1895 thus making probably 
the first record of this bira from Southern California. 
A male Spizella atrigularis in moulting plumage 
was taken at Pasadena, April 6, 1896. This species 
seems to have merely been overlooked by local collec- 
tors until this spring. 
April 1896. was marked by an unusually large migra- 
tion of Warblers, Sparrows and Flycatchers. 
The Southern Division meets May 30. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
This division met May 2 at San Jose. Mr. Beck 
reported the taking of a Pinon Jay at Monterey during 
the fall of 1895. A discussion as to suitable work for 
the club followed. It was decided to commence the 
compilation of lists of the birds of several of the counties 
best represented by club members, together with anno- 
nations. The committee to conduct the work for Santa 
Clara county was appointed as follows: R.H. Beck, 
C. Barlow and H. R. Painton. Committees for several 
other counties will be appointed at subsequent meetings. 
Owing to the absence of a large number of the mem- 
bers it was decided to postpone the Club Outing which 
was to have taken place May 30 and 31. The Northern 
Division meets at R. S. Wheeler’sin Alameda June 6. 
Eggs of the Belted Piping Plover. 
yD AJOR CHARLES E. BENDIRE of 
the U. S. National Museum, writes 
us: ‘‘In the last number of the 
Oologist there is an article contributed by 
Raine on the eggs of the Belted Piping 
Plover, which is misleading (see pages 17 
and 18). In The Ipswich Sparrow and its 
Summer Home, by Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 
M. D., 1895, etc., you can find a descrip- 
tlon of the egg; and a set of these eggs, 
No. 6078, with parent No. 27027, taken by 
Mr. Donald Gunn of the Hudson Bay Co., 
were taken on the shores of Lake Winni- 
peg as early as 1862, and are now in the 
collection here as well as other sets.’’ 
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question?” 
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