40 THE CONDOR 
An invitation from the Bird Lovers’ Club 
to hold the January meeting jointly with 
them was voted upon favorably, but the Sec- 
retary was instructed to request that the 
date be deferred until February. Mr. Rob- 
ertson moved that the Chairman be author- 
ized to appoint a nominating committee of 
three; seconded by Van Rossem; carried. 
The appointees were Messrs. Brown, Van 
Rossem and Howell. Business Manager 
Chambers made the announcement that Avi- 
fauna No. 14, “The Birds of Montana’, is 
nearly ready for mailing. 
Serious business completed, Mr. Howell 
gave an interesting account of a 5000-mile 
automobile trip extending over a period of 
five months, in which he followed the line 
of spring from Los Angeles to Montana, re- 
turning via the western coast of Washing- 
ton and Oregon. Followed an hour of gen- 
eral discussion and inspection of a series 
of hawk skins. 
Adjourned.—L. E. WyMaANn, Secretary. 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
OcToBER.—The Northern Division of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club and the Northern 
California Section of the American Society 
of Mammalogists held a joint meeting in 
the Map Room of the University Library, 
October 28 at 7:30 Pp. mM. The larger works 
on birds and mammals contained in the Uni- 
versity Library were on exhibition and the 
evening was spent in looking over these 
books. At 9:30 Pp. M. a short business ses- 
sion of the Cooper Club was held, at which 
Mr. Wright presided. The following mem- 
bers were present: Mesdames Alexander, 
Allen, Florence Merriam Bailey, Blake, 
Bridges, Ferguson, KE. Ferguson, Flynn, 
Grinnell, Kellogg, Kibbe, Law, Pringle, Roe, 
Thomson, and Wythe; Messrs. Vernon Bai- 
ley, Bell, Cooper, Dixon, Elmore, Evermann, 
Grinnell, Hunt, Kibbe, Law, McLean, Storer, 
Swarth, Wheeler and Wright. Visitors were 
Miss Ruth Dodge, F. E. and M. N. Garlough, 
Gillilan, Lamonieux, Mr. Blake, Mr. Bridges, 
and Mr. Steilberg. 
The minutes of the September meeting 
were read and approved and were followed 
by the reading of the minutes of the Sep- 
tember meeting of the Southern Division. 
Mrs. Georgianna T. Roe and Francis G. Gil- 
christ were elected to membership and elec- 
tions by the Southern Division in Septem- 
ber were approved. New names proposed 
were Dr. R. L. Rigdon, 1617 Broderick St., 
San Francisco, py Cornelia C. Pringle; Perry 
R. F. Marshall, 1495 W. Adams St., Los An- 
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geles, by J. Grinnell; J. W. McKibben, 2522 
Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, by J. S. Cooper; 
and John William Stacey, 634 Powell St., San 
F'rancisco, by F. N. Bassett. 
Adjourned.—AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
NoveEMBER.—The Northern Division of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club met at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, November 18, at 
8 p. M. Pres. Wright presided, and those in 
attendance were: Mesdames Allen, Ayers, 
Bridges, Flynn, Hohfeld, Kibbe, Law, Meade, 
Newhall, Thomson, and Wythe; Messrs. 
Carriger, Cooper, Dixon, Gignoux, Gilchrist, 
Grinnell, Lastreto, Mailliard, McLean, 
Noack, Silliman, Storer, Swarth, White, and 
Wright. Visitors: Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, Mr. 
Bridges, Mrs. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, 
Miss Devendorf, Mrs. Heilman, Mrs. Hyde, 
Mrs. Noack, Prof. Price, and Miss Wythe. 
Minutes of the October meeting were read 
and approved, followed by reading of the 
October minutes of the Southern Division. 
Mr. Perry R. F. Marshall, Dr. R. L. Rigdon, 
Mr. J. W. McKibben, and Mr. John W. Sta- 
cey were elected members of the Club. Elec- 
tions by the Southern Division in October 
were approved. 
New names proposed were: Mrs. Charles 
Gilman Hyde, 2579 Buena Vista Way, Berke- 
ley, by Mrs. Edwin B. Mead; Mr. George B. 
Culver, Stanford University, by Prof. J. O. 
Snyder; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Arnold, 2732 
Benvenue Ave., Berkeley, by Mrs. Edwin 
Blake; and Mrs. Lydia Wilcox, 10 Latona St., 
San Francisco, by Mrs. Eva D. Roe. Mr. 
Storer reported for the committee appointed 
to investigate the eagle situation in Alaska. 
Business completed, the program as an- 
nounced for the evening was presented. Mrs. 
Allen gave a summary of bird bands placed 
during 1918, 1919, and 1920, the main item 
being the return of three winter visitants 
to the same feeding table where they spent 
the previous winter. Dr. Grinnell explained 
the meaning of adventitious coloration and 
described the case of a pair of Plain Tit- 
mouses in plumage colored yellow, probably 
by the spores of a fungus which lined the 
cavity occupied by them. Mr. Law took up 
in detail the probable origin of the three 
groups of subspecies of the Fox Sparrow as 
described by Mr. Swarth in his recent mono- 
graph. In his reviews of recent literature, 
Mr. Swarth gave critical estimates of arti- 
cles by L. R. Dice, R. C. McGregor, Bangs and 
Kennard, and F. M. Chapman. A number of 
interesting seasonal observations were pre- 
sented, after which the meeting was ad- 
journed.—AmELIA §S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
