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For Sale, Exchange and Want Column. — Any Cooper Club member is entitled to one 

 advertising notice in each issue free. Notices of over ten lines will be charged for at 

 the rate of ten cents per line. For this department, address W. Lee Chambers, Eagle 

 Rock, Los Angeles County, California. 



For Sale— Bird-Lore, vols. 15, 16, 17, 18. 

 orig. parts, per vol., $1.50; Barrow's Eng. 

 Sparrow in Am., cover loose, $.90; Coues' 

 Fourth Installment of Ornithological Bibli- 

 ography, Wash. 1880, $1.00; Birds of Austra- 

 lia and Ireland, in N. British Review, 1852, 

 $.75; De Kay's N. Y. Ornithology, colored 

 plates, covers loose, $2.50; Forbush's Game 

 Birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds, $1.50; 

 Ridgway's Birds of N. and Mid. Am., vol. 

 vii, $2.50; Piper's Flora of Washington, 

 $4.50. Prices net. — B. F. Case, Tolland, 

 Conn. 



Wanted — Osprey, vol. i, nos. 2 and 4; Nid- 

 oiogist, vol. i, nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12; 

 Museum, vol. n, no. 12, and vol. 5, nos. 7-11; 

 Am. Ornithology, vol. 4, no. 10, vol. 6 com- 

 plete. For Sale — Condor, vol. i, nos. 1, 2, 4, 

 5, 6, vol. ii complete; Bird-Lore, vol. xi; or 

 will exchange for above. — E. A. Doolittle, 

 Box JfJt, Painesville, Ohio. 



Wanted — Oologist, 1897, May and Dec, 

 1899, April and Sept.; Nidiologist, vol. i, no. 

 2, Oct., 1893; Osprey, n. s., 1902, July; Au- 

 dubon, Ornith. Biog., vol. 2; Coues, Second 

 ■Install. Ornith. Bibliog., 1879; Oologist 

 (Utica, N. Y.), vol. i, nos. 1-4, 9; Zoe; Field 

 and Forest; N. A. Fauna, 23; Loomis's Calif. 

 Water Birds, parts 1-5.— B. H. Swales, J,728 

 13th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Mr. John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. 



Y., has just issued a 150-page catalogue of 

 his Natural History library. This library is 

 rich in expensive editions and rare old sets 

 of all lines of natural history, and is one of 

 the largest in the U. S. Any one desiring 

 one of the few remaining copies of this cata- 

 logue, bound in cloth, may have one by 

 sending $5.00 to — The Childs Press. Floral 

 Park, N. Y. 



To Exchange — Collection of U. S. postage 

 stamps, old envelopes and revenue, some 

 rare, for bird skins, or nests and eggs. If 

 interested correspond with — Wright M. 

 Pierce, Claremont, Calif. 



For Sale — At a low price, 3 large solid 

 oak egg or specimen cabinets with a total of 

 41 drawers; will accomodate any sized egg 

 from that of a hummingbird to an ostrich. — 

 M. Ray, 220 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. 



Wanted — Osprey, vol. i, nos. 2, 4, 6; in, 

 nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10; iv, all except no. 2; 

 v, all except nos. 1, 2, 3. New series all. — 

 Ralph W. Jackson, R. no. 1, Cambridge, Md. 



Wanted. — To buy first-class scientific 

 study-skins of the English Sparrow (Pas- 

 ser domesticus and its subspecies) from 

 various points throughout its range, both in 

 the Old World and in North America. Spe- 

 cimens must be correctly aged and sexed. 

 Send sample of "make" to the undersigned, 

 together with statement of price and quan- 

 tity furnishable. — J. Grinnell, Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, 

 Berkeley, California. 



AVIFAUNA No. 12 



Birds of the Islands off the Coast of 

 Southern California 



By ALFRED BRAZIER HOWELL 

 127 pages; published June 30, 1917 



A detailed review of the ornithology of the California islands : 195 species 

 are treated; complete synonymies of each are given; contains tables 

 of species by islands, a hypothetical list of 13 species, an exhaustive 

 bibliography, and discussion of problems presented by the island 

 avifauna. This is an important contribution that no active ornitholo- 

 gist can do without. 



Members of the Cooper Club may take the regular Club discount (50%). 



Price, prepaid, $1.50 



W, X,EB CHAMBERS, Business Manager 

 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California 



