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the jays to other birds. His figures as to 
the destruction of birds’ eggs by jays are 
interesting but in all likelihood excessive. 
Taken as a whole, these first fascicles of 
Dawson’s “Birds of California” are quite 
acceptable, more especially from the stand- 
point of the esthetic enjoyment of bird 
study. The typography and make-up are 
neat, and satisfyingly free from error. We 
hope that the undertaking will come to com- 
pletion without further delay, and with the 
same plane of merit sustained to the end.—- 
J. GRINNELL. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
Aucust (meeting for July).—Regular 
monthly meeting of Southern Division Coo- 
per Ornithological Club was held at the Los 
Angeles Museum at 8:00 p. m., August 2, 
1921. In the absence of both presiding offi- 
cers, Mr. G. Frean Morcom was acclaimed 
chairman. Other members present were: 
Messrs. Chambers, de Groot, Hanaford, How- 
ell, King, Lamb, Law, Robertson, Trenor, 
Wheeler and Wyman; Mrs. Law and Miss 
Germain. Mrs. Wheeler and Mr. Enochs 
were visitors. 
Minutes of the July meeting were read 
and approved. New applications for mem- 
bership were presented as follows: Miss 
Marie Pauline Coppee, Ross, Marin County, 
ky Miss Miller; Rex P. Enochs, 715 So. Hope 
St., Los Angeles, by L. E. Wyman; Walter 
Mackay Case, Box 399, Prescott, Ariz., and 
Joseph Edward Hallinen, Cooperton, Kiowa 
County, Okla., by W. Lee Chambers; Mary 
Caroline Coman, 1644 Berkeley Ave., Stock- 
ton, by Tracy I. Storer; Mrs. Wm. Clark 
Brown, 945 Orange St., Los Angeles, by H. C. 
Bryant. The names of Robert Cunningham 
Miller and Wm. Polk Farber, of Berkeley; 
and Mrs. Mildred Tiffany Wood, Hopland, 
were received from the Northern Division. 
Formal business ended, members who had 
recently been a-field related some interest- 
ing experiences and _ observations. Ad- 
journed.—L. E. Wyman, Secretary. 
AuGcustT.—Regular monthly meeting of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club, Southern Divi- 
sion, was held at the Los Angeles Museum 
at 8:00 vp. m., August 25, 1921. In the ab- 
sence of both presiding officers, Dr. L. H. 
Miller was acclaimed chairman of the meet- 
ing. Other members present were: Messrs. 
Chambers, Edwards, Warmer, Wheeler and 
Wyman; Mesdames Brown and Warmer; 
Misses Beers and Pratt. Mrs. Beers, Mrs. 
Wheeler, Alden Miller and Mr. Patterson 
were visitors. 
THE CONDOR 
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Minutes of the July meeting were read 
and approved, and those of the Northern Di- 
vision for July were read. Names pre- 
sented for membership were: Miss Coral 
Canby, San Fernando, by R. C. Ross; John 
Jonas, 215 West Park St., Livingston, Mont., 
by E. R. Warren; Otis Howard Wade, 1353 
Vine St., Los Angeles, by W. Lee Chambers. 
The Secretary announced that the missing 
parts of The Auk, needed to complete the 
set belonging to the Southern Division, had 
been donated by members. An invitation 
from Dr. Miller to the Club to hold its Sep- 
tember meeting at his home, on the Arroyo 
Seco, was unanimously accepted. 
Formal business completed, members who 
had recently returned from their summer 
outings contributed to a half hour of in- 
formal bird talk. Adjourned.—L. E. WyMAn, 
Secretary. 
SEPTEMBER.—The regular monthly meeting 
of the Cooper Ornithological Club, Southern 
Division, was held at 3:00 Pp. M., September 
25, 1921, at the home of Dr. L. H. Miller, on 
the Arroyo Seco, Los Angeles. In the con- 
tinued absence of both presiding officers, 
Dr. Miller was appropriately called to the 
chair. As testifying to the popularity of the 
occasion, about sixty members and friends 
attended. 
Since the meeting was more than ordi- 
narily of a social nature, formal business 
was limited to reading of minutes of the 
August meeting, and presentation of three 
new names, as follows: Mrs. Josephine 
Jackson Bates, 1267 Sunset Ave., Pasadena, 
and Miss Jessica A. Potter, 1118 Santee St., 
Los Angeles, by Miss Mary Mann Miller; and 
Mrs. Adelaide R. Bartlett, Assessor’s Office, 
City Hall, San Francisco, by W. Lee Cham- 
bers. 
Numerous members’ then _ contributed 
their most interesting recent observations, 
among them a record of the Sabine Gull 
near Los Angeles, by Mrs. Bicknell; mating 
antics of juvenile Anna Hummers, by Miss 
Miller; and feeding habits of the Black 
Phoebe, by Mrs. Terry. Mr. Law then 
spoke of the entertainment and knowledge 
derived from bird-banding, giving results of 
some recent work in this line, and exhibit- 
‘ing the traps used for the purpose.. Dr. 
Warmer stated that homing pigeons used 
during the Great War were now on exhibi- 
tion at Arcadia Balloon Station, near this 
city. 
On motion by Laurence Peyton the meet- 
ing adjourned to the informality of a water 
melon feast, without which this annual 
event would be incomplete. Adjourned.—L. 
EK. WyMAN, Secretary. 
