_Sept., 1922 
that the “turken” is in no sense a hybrid 
but is a large, vigorous strain of fowl, long 
known in central Europe, and only recently 
imported into the United States. 
Mr. Joseph Mailliard, of the California 
Academy of Sciences, is carrying on field- 
work this fall in the Feather River district. 
Mr. Harry S. Swarth, of the California 
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, is spending 
the autumn months in north-central Ari- 
zona, collecting birds and mammals. 
Dr. Louis B. Bishop has spent the summer 
at Carmel, where he carried on field work 
with the kirds as demands upon his time in 
other connections permitted. Dr. Bishop 
has made some _ interesting discoveries 
which he will report shortly in THE Con- 
DOR, 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles -W. Michael, per- 
manenily residents in the Yosemite Valley, 
California, have been keeping daily record 
of the birds they see there, and sending 
these records month by month for perma- 
nent deposit in the California Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology. Their reports, com- 
plete since June, 1920, are annotated species 
by species and also summarized in tabular 
form, day by day. They thus show in read- 
ily understood manner the seasonal move- 
ments of the birds at a very interesting sta- 
tion where both altitudinal and latitudinal 
migrations are in evidence. 
The Sixteenth Annual Report of the Cali- 
fornia Audubon Society (issued June 28, 
1922) is before us. It consists mainly of 
the report of the Secretary, Miss Helen S. 
Pratt, and this is written in vivacious vein, 
optimistic, and for the most part free from 
extreme “protectionist” sentiment. 
foundly true aphorism set forth by the Sec- 
retary in regard to the Barbour bill (creat- 
ing the Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park in 
the southern Sierra Nevada) is this: ‘“Na- 
tional parks are NaTIonNaAL Museums. Their 
purpose is to preserve forever, in their ori- 
ginal untouched condition, certain few, 
small, widely-separated examples of the Am- 
erican Wilderness of the pioneer and the 
frontiersman; of the works and processes 
of Nature unblemished by men’s hands; of 
our native wild animals living natural lives 
in the natural homes of their ancestors.” 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
Aprit.—The regular monthly meeting of 
the Southern Division of the Cooper Ornith- 
ological Club was held at the Los Angeles 
Museum at 8 vp. m., April 26, 1922. Dr. Rich 
had the chair, with others present as fol- 
lows: Mesdames Anthony, Fargo, Law, Mil- 
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ler, Mix, Schneider, Warmer; Miss Burnell 
and Miss Pratt; Messrs. Appleton, Barnes, 
Bishop, Chambers, Colburn, Hanaford, Hil- 
ton, Howell, King, Law, Lamb, Little, Mil- 
ler, Pierce, Robertson, Warmer and Wy- 
man. Among the visitors were Mesdames 
Bishop and Wyman; Misses Evans, Fargo, 
Wetherell and Wilcox. 
Minutes of the previous meeting were 
read and approved, while those of the North- 
ern Division were read by title only. Ap- 
plications for membership were: Mrs. H. 
F. Thompson, Los Angeles; Ella A. Evans, 
Exeter; and Charles Sapp, Long Beach, all 
by Charles A. Warmer. Mrs. Silkman E. 
Hyde, Regina, Idaho; Elmer Langevin, 
Crookston, Minn.; and Carl H. Bryant, 
Atascadero, by W. Lee Chambers. Miss 
Nellie May Brown, Los Angeles, by A. van 
Rossem. Robert R. McLean, San Diego, by 
C. S. Sharp. Mrs. L. U. Everhart, Thermal, 
by L. E. Wyman. The Northern Division 
sent the names of Archibald W. Bell and 
Helen Genevieve Corwin, of Berkeley. 
A letter from Mr. W. L. Dawson inviting 
the club members to attend the formal 
opening of the new building of the Museum 
of Comparative Oology was read by the sec- 
retary. Formal business ended, various 
members who had recently visited the des- 
ert spoke on their experiences and observa- 
tions. The session closed with the usual 
general discussion, and inspection of a se- 
ries of skins and nests collected by the sec- 
retary in Imperial and Ccachella valleys. 
Adjourned.—L. E. Wyman, Secretary. 
May.—The regular meeting of the South- 
ern Division was held at the Los Angeles 
Museum, 8 Pp. M., May 25, 1922. Dr. Rich 
presided, with others in attendance as fol- 
lows: Mrs. Law, Miss Miller, Miss Potter; 
Messrs. Barnes, Bishop, Chambers, Hana- 
ford, Hilton, Holland, Howell, King, Lamb, 
Law, Morcom, Reis and Wyman. Mrs. 
Lamb, Miss Swarth, Mrs. Wyman and Mr. 
Greene were visitors. 
Minutes of the previous meeting were 
read and approved, followed by reading of 
those of the Northern Division. Mr. Cham- 
bers presented for membership the names 
of Rev. M. Lee, Tulare, and Charles Ketch- 
um Averill, Bridgeport, Conn. Franklin J. 
Smith sponsored Bertram O. Betterley, 
Eureka. The Northern Division sent the 
name of Vernon L. Tenney, Berkeley. Mr. 
Law spoke informally on the latest results 
of his bird-banding operations, the subject 
proving even more interesting than former- 
Iya A tray of gull skins representing at 
least one new and unrecorded species for 
