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. 



I DESIRE good museum material with com- 

 plete data. Birds, eggs, marine forms, etc. 

 Can furnish any of tne southern birds, and 

 have a good series of ducks: Gadwall, Blue- 

 winged Teal, etc. ; also shorebirds, geese and 

 herons. Address Alfred M. Bailey, Louis- 

 iana State Museum, New Orleans, La. 



Donald R. Dickey, San Rafael Heights, 

 Pasadena, Calif, wants to purchase N. A. 

 Faunas, nos. 16, 17, and 18. 



For Sale — Bendire's Life Histories, Vol. I, 

 at $8.00; Fisher's Hawks and Owls, $6.00 Both 

 newly bound in green art canvas and in splen- 

 did condition. Apply to Southwest Museum, 

 Dept. of Ornithology, Los Angeles, Calif. 



FOR SALE or EXCHANGE for books new 

 to my library: Ridgway — Orn. of 111., vol. I, 

 1889. Ridgway — Birds of N. and Mid. Am. I 

 to v, inc. Cooper— Orn of Cal., 1870. Bendire — 

 Life Histories, I and II, 1892-95. Henshaw — 

 Report on Ornithological Collections, 1875. 

 Coues — Birds of the Northwest, 1874. Coues — 

 Third Installment Orn. Bibliography, 1879 

 Elliot— Wild Fowl, 1898. Nelson— Report on 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. 1887. Cook— Birds of Michi- 

 gan, 1893. Fisher— Birds of Laysan, etc. 1893. 

 The Warbler— 2nd Series, I and II. The Nid- 

 ologist — nearly complete file. Orn. and Oolo- 

 gist— ix, x, xiii, xvii, etc. Condor — v, vi,vn, 

 ix, x, xi, etc. Auk — xvi, bound; also xiv, xvi, 

 xvii, xviii, etc., parts. 



WANT: Baird, Brewer and Ridgway 's 

 Water Birds. Wilson Bulletin — complete file to 

 no. 75. Auk— i, no. 2, 3, 4; n, all; in, no. 2, 



3; iv, no. 2; vi, all; vn, all; ix, xi, xxiv.xxv, 

 xxvi, xxx. Publications of California Academy 

 of Sciences. Journal Maine Orn.Soc. Bulletin 

 Michigan Orn. Club. Orn. and Oologist— I to 

 v, inc.; also vn. 



If interested send for complete lists, enclosing 

 your own.— O. P. Sii^iman, Castroville, Calif. 



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. 



Mb. 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 Pbess, 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. USE CHAMBERS, Business Manager 

 Eagle Rock, I,os Angeles County, California 



