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numbers; and citations of separate works 
ought to include place and name of pub- 
lisher, edition, and pagination. This is espe- 
cially necessary in a work like the present 
one which will be an important volume of 
reference for years to come. We would 
prefer to see vernacular names of species 
in text set off with capital initials, and the 
running page heads would be much more use- 
ful with vernacular names of species in 
place of the title of the work. The egg rec- 
ords seem to be too condensed. A brief 
analysis of the season, or a graphic repre- 
sentation of the data, especially where such 
a wealth of material has been examined, 
would have been highly worth while. But 
all of these are minor points. 
We strongly commend the segregation of 
material under subject heads in the species 
chapters, this being an arrangement which 
greatly facilitates reference work. The 
rather complete accounts of molts and plum- 
ages bring together for the first time as 
regards our American Pygopodes discussion 
of this important subject. In the discussion 
of distribution the relegation of ‘‘cas- 
uals” to a separate category is highly 
satisfactory. Finally, the illustrative 
material calls for special comment, 
that from the camera even more than 
the colored plates of eggs, as we realize from 
personal experience the effort involved in 
obtaining satisfactory photographs of liv- 
ing birds. In this connection it would seem 
as though the plate captions could easily 
have been placed on the plates and thereby 
obviated the need of having to refer to the 
list of captions in the back of the book. 
The interpolation of the plates in the text, 
adjacent to the accounts to which they per- 
tain, is a very handy arrangement. 
We congratulate Mr. Bent upon the suc- 
cess which he has attained in his initial 
volume and trust that further contributions 
of like or greater merit may be forthcoming 
in the not distant future-——Tracy I. STORER. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
Aucust.—A special meeting of the North- 
ern Division was held on August 13, 1919, at 
eight Pp. m., to meet Dr. Witmer Stone of 
Philadelphia. The meeting was called to or- 
der by the President, Dr. Evermann. Since 
no objection was offered by members pres- 
ent, the regular meeting for the month of 
August was declared omitted. Members 
present were Mesdames Allen, Griffin, Grin- 
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nell, Kelly, Pringle and Roe; Messrs. Bell, 
Carriger, Coggins, Evermann, Grinnell, La- 
barthe, Mailliard, Martin, Storer, and White. 
Visitors were Mrs. Coggins, Mrs. and Miss 
Evermann, Miss Potter, Dr. and Mrs. Stone, 
Mrs. Swarth, and Mrs. Wilcox. 
Mr. Arthur Brown, 359 Monadnock Build- 
ing, San Francisco, and Miss Josephine Gei- 
selhart, Concord, California, were elected to 
membershhip in the Club. Elections by the 
Southern Division in April and May were 
ratified. Mr. W. Otto Emerson, Palm Cot- 
tage, Hayward, and Mrs. Mary Ames Van 
Dyke, 1545 LeRoy Ave., Berkeley, were 
proposed for membership, the former, by 
Mr. Carriger, the latter by Mr. Storer. Dr. 
Evermann reported that a letter from the 
manager of the Union Oil Company promised 
prompt installment of machinery to prevent 
its discharge of oil on the waters of the Pa- 
cific. The Secretary of the Club was in- 
structed to request the committee on the 
licensing of cats to present a report at the 
next meeting. 
Mr. Joseph Mailliard read a series of let- 
ters from Dr. F. M. Chapman relating to 
memorials for Col. Roosevelt or Mr. William 
Brewster. The fcllowing committee was 
appointed, Joseph Mailliard, Joseph Grinnell 
and H. W. Carriger. 
Business disposed of, the Club was pri- 
vileged to listen to a most interesting ac- 
count of Dr. Stone’s experiences in the Chi- 
ricahua Mountains, in southeastern Arizona. 
Of the seventy-five or more species men- 
tioned by Dr. Stone fully a third were un- 
familiar to the average California ornithol- 
ogist. Meeting adjourned.—AMELIA S. AL- 
LEN, Secretary. 
SEPTEMBER.—The September meeting of 
the Northern Division was held at the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology on the evening 
of the 18th, at eight o’clock. In the absence 
of Dr. Evermann, Mr. Labarthe, the Vice- 
president, presided. The members present 
were: Mesdames Allen, Blake, Bridges, Da- 
vidson, Griffin, Grinnell, Gunn, Kibbe, Prin- 
gle, Roe; Thompson, and Wythe, Messrs. 
Bassett, Bell, Bryant, Carriger, Dixon, Grin- 
nell, Hunt, Kibbe, Labarthe, Lastreto, Mof- 
fitt, Morley, McLean, Noack, Palmer, Storer, 
Swarth, White, and Wright. Visitors pres- 
ent were: Mesdames Ames, Bassett, Bryant, 
Mann, Raphael, Rose, Storer, Swarth, 
Thompson, and Wilcox, and Mr. Blake. 
The minutes of the August meeting of the 
Northern Division were read and approved, 
and the June, July and August records of 
the Southern Division were read. Mr. W. 
