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, vol. 7, 1905, and odd 

 numbers of vols, for 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907; 

 Nidiologist, vol. 1, no. 1. — W. L. Burnett, 

 State Agric. College, Fort Collins, Colo. 



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

 orig. parts, per vol. $1.35; Birds of Austra- 

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

 $.50; The Story of a Bird Lover, W. E. D. 

 Scott, $.75; Forbush's Game Birds, Wild 

 Fowl and Shore Birds, $1.25; The Auk, vol. 

 xxn (1905), orig. parts, $2.00. Prices net. — 

 B. F. Case, Tolland, Conn. 



For Sale — Nidiologist, 4 vols., bound 

 (new), $5.00; Condor, 18 vols, bound and 

 1 unbound, $26.50; Studers' Birds of N. A., 

 $7.00; Birds of the World, Knowlton, $6.00; 

 Nests and Eggs of N. A. Birds, Davie, $1.00; 

 Bird Neighbors, Blanchan, $1.00; Wild 

 Fowl of N. A., Elliot, $1.00; Our Feathered 

 Game, Huntington, $.75. — Ida E. Davis, 

 Orange, California. 



Wanted — Nidiologist, vol. i, nos. 1, 2, 5, 

 8; vol. ii, 11; Osprey, vol. in, 7. — O. Wid- 

 mann, 5105 Yon Yersen Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 



Books For Sale — Fisher, A. K. Hawks 

 and Owls of the U. States in their Relation 

 to Agriculture. A new, fine copy, 25 col. 

 pis. Rare. Washn., 1893. $6.00. Coues, E. 

 Handbook of Field and General Ornithology. 

 A manual of the structure and classification 

 of Birds. 112 illusts., 8vo, cloth, 343 pp. 

 London, 1890. As new, $2.00. Coues, E. The 

 Birds of the Colorado Valley. Contains the 

 bibliography, pp. 567-784, invaluable to any- 

 one forming a collection of ornithological 

 books. Wash., 1878; original binding and 



in good condition, $4.00. Nidiologist, vol. 

 ii, $1.50; hi, $2.00; iv, $1.50. All new in 

 parts as issued. This is one of the early 

 publications in which Cooper Club papers 

 were published. — W. Lee Chambers, Eagle 

 Rock, Los Angeles County, California. 



Wanted — To buy first-class scientific 

 study-skins of the English Sparrow TPas- 

 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 

 Yerteorate Zoology, University of California, 

 Berkeley, California. 



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 



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, 4728 

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



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. I/EE CHAMBERS, Business Manager 

 Eagle Rock, I/OS Angeles County, California 



