May, 1920 
the “trap habit” and a few individuals made 
themselves obnoxious by returning to the 
traps again and again. Considerable individ- 
uality in temperament was displayed by the 
trapped birds. One White-throated Sparrow 
always fought and bit when handled and 
another invariably squealed upon being re- 
moved from the trap, while a certain Brown 
Thrasher used to stand quietly until re- 
leased. 
After reading Mr. Baldwin’s paper the re- 
viewer is greatly impressed with the possi- 
bilities in this new method. Persons who 
are possessed of even a modicum of spare 
time can add materially to the fund of 
ornithological information by operating one 
or more of these traps through a greater or 
lesser part of the year. Here is a case 
where for purposes of identification and rec- 
ord a “bird in the hand’, even though tem- 
porarily, is worth vastly more than “two in 
the bush”. The establishment of a series 
of stations along some well travelled route 
might make possible not only the accurate 
tracing of species migration but even the 
migratory movements of individuals.— 
TRACY I. STORER. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB 
MEETINGS 
NORTHERN DIVISION 
NOvVEMBER.—The November meeting of 
the Northern Division of the Cooper Or- 
nithological Club was held on the 20th, at 
8 Pp. M., at the Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology. In the absence of both president 
and vice-president, Mr. Curtis Wright was 
asked to preside. Members present were: 
Mesdames Allen, Griffin, Grinnell, Head, 
Kibbe, Schlesinger, Thompson, Van Dyke; 
Messrs. Bade, Bryant, Carriger, Cooper, 
Grinnell, Hunt, Kibbe, Loomis, Mailliard, 
McLean, Moffitt, Palmer and White. Vis- 
itors were: Mr. Austin, Miss Cooper, Dr. 
Hanna, Miss Evermann, and Mrs. Thompson. 
The minutes of the October meeting were 
read and approved. Those whose names 
were proposed at the October meeting were 
elected to membership, namely, Miss Ames, 
Mrs. Dodge, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Harper, Mr. 
Harrison, Miss Mackey, Mrs. Mead, Mr. 
Moore, and Mrs. Price. In addition to the 
proposals before the Southern Division, 
which included Miss Ruth Ledig, Mr. Rich- 
ard F. Williams, Mr. Charles F. Hodges 
and Mrs. Brownlee, the name of Miss Bessie 
M. Lander, Exeter, Calif., was proposed by 
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Dr. Grinnell, and that of Mr. Lloyd Austin, 
Berkeley, by Miss Anna Head. 
A letter from Mr. Finley, together with 
an article of his, clipped from the Oregonian 
for October 26, urged immediate action re- 
garding the drainage of Lower Klamath 
Lake. On motion of Dr. Bryant, seconded by 
Mr. Storer, it was declared to be the sense of 
the meeting that it would be against the 
interests of the citizens of Oregon and Cali- 
fornia to have the Klamath Lake Reserva- 
tion destroyed as a bird refuge, and that 
letters asking for an investigation should be 
forwarded to the Secretary of Agriculture 
and to the Secretary of the Interior. 
Dr. Grinnell announced that letters from 
Mr. Swarth, who attended the meeting of 
the A. O. U., reported an attendance of 
twenty-four out of forty-nine fellows, and 
also the election of two new fellows: Mr. 
Alexander Wetmore and Mr. J. H. Riley. 
Dr. G. Dallas Hanna then presented the re- 
sults of “Bird Studies on the Pribilof 
Islands”, in which he dwelt particularly on 
the large number of species (129) that have 
been collected although only twenty-two are 
listed as breeding there. He emphasized 
also the enormous numbers of sea birds, 
such as the Least Auklet and the Pallas 
Murre, which breed on the Pribilof Islands 
each year. After some discussion it was 
voted to adjourn.—AMELIA S. ALLEN, Secre- 
tary. 
DECEMBER.—The regular meeting of the 
Northern Division of the Cooper Ornith- 
Ological Club was held at the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology, December 18, at eight 
o’clock in the evening. Dr. Evermann was 
in the chair and the following members 
and friends were present: Mesdames 
Allen, Ames, Ferguson, Griffin, Grinnell, 
Head, Kelly, Law, Mackey, Mead, Price, 
Schlesinger, and Thompson; Messrs. Austin, 
Bell, Carriger, Cohen, Dixon, Evermann, 
Grinnell, Howell, Kellogg, Kibbe, La 
Jeunesse, Lamb, lLastreto, Law, Little, 
Mailliard, Wheeler, White, and Wright. 
Visitors: Mesdames Evermann, Hardy, 
Lamb, Thompson, and Wood. 
November minutes were read and ap- 
proved and Southern Division minutes for 
October and November were also read. Miss 
Bessie M. Lander and Mr. Lloyd Austin 
whose names were proposed in November, 
were elected to membership. Miss Ruth 
Ledig, Mr. Richard F. Williams, Mr. Charles 
F. Hodges, and Mrs. W. L. Brownlee, elected 
by the Southern Division were approved. 
New names proposed were: Miss Ethel 
