Jan., igo2. 
THE CONDOR 
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North American Birds. Wit:mer Stone. 
(15 min.) 
Results Obtained Under the Thayer Fund. 
Wir.EiAM UuTCHER. (20 min.) 
National Bird Protection — Its Op])ortunities 
and Limitations. T. S. Palmer. 
(25 min.) 
Gulls of the Maine Coast, and Miscellaneous 
Notes. Illustrated by lantern slides. Wm. 
Butcher and Wm. L. Baily. (6o min.) 
Some Results of Bird Protection. Illustrated 
by lantern slides. Frank M. Chapman. 
(15 min.) 
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. 
Mr. T. E. Slevin of San Francisco, is enjoying a short collecting trip in Arizona, where 
he is securing specimens for his private collection. 
On January 7 Joseph Grinnell addressed the Section of Ornithology of the California Acad- 
emy of Sciences on the “Distribution of the Song Sparrow.” 
Richard C. McGregor, at latest accounts, was abpard the U. S. S. Pathfinder at Nagasaki, 
bound for Majiila, where he expects to be located for several months to come. 
Frank S. Daggett returned from an outing on the desert about Dec. i, sulfering from 
remittent fever, and has since been seriously ill. At last accounts he is mending slowly and 
we trust he will shortly’ be fully restored to health. 
Geo. F. Breninger, the well-known Arizona ornithologist, will leave Jan. s on a collecting 
expedition in the interests of the Field Columbian Museum. He will collect as far south as 
the City of Mexico and among the islands off the coast. 
Tw'elve English skylarks have recently reached Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and 
after they have become acclimated it is proposed to liberate them, with the hope that 
they may take up their permanent residence on the coast. 
Chas. K. Reed has favored us wdth Volume i of Ainericau Ornithology, handsomely bound 
in cloth. In the center of the front cover, encircled by a raised border, is a colortype of a 
blue bird at its nesting hole, giving the bound volume a peculiarly artistic effect. 
The superb collection of birds owned by Dr . .V. K. Fisher, which we hoped might go to 
California, has been purchased by Mr. John E. Thayer of Lancaster, Mass. This collection 
contains 5000 specimens and is rich in material representing individual and seasonal variation. 
Geo. W. Morse of Ashley, Ind., is engaged in the commendable work of trying to induce 
uniformity of data blanks among oologists. This is a difficult task, since individual tastes 
seem to vary extremely on this point. Mr. Morse has originated a very neat form, as also 
one for field notes, from which the data blanks are later copied. We commend the forms to 
those iiiterested and samples may be secured on application to Mr. Morse. 
On Christmas day, 1901, an interesting event was solemnized at Clipper Gap, Cal,, when 
Miss Jessie A. Bancroft became the bride of Mr. Ernest Adams of San Jose. Mr. Adams is 
a prominent Cooperite, who has taken an active part in the sessions of the Northern Division 
for years past, and his colleagtres will regret his departure for Clipper Gap where he has 
orchard interests. The cordial well wishes of the Club will go out to Mr. and Mrs. Adams 
who, by the way, are located in an excellent bird region. 
It is well that the Cooper Club enjoys a large membership, else its permanent working force 
might at times be momentarily crippled by the trend of many of its members toward the ranks 
of the benedicts. Arthur J. Zschokke of Palo Alto was united in marriage on Dec. 28 to 
Miss Elsie Older of Oakland, the couple to locate at Palo Alto. Mr. Zschokke has for sev- 
eral years held the record for the mile walk in the Stanford track team, which accomplish- 
ment usually stands the ornithologist in good stead. He has also been credited w’ith taking 
numerous sets of white- tailed kite from town lots in the heart of Palo Alto! 
A book, scarcely ornithological in its nature, but interesting in the extreme to then 
friends of its author, has just appeared, entitled ‘‘Gold Hunting in Alaska,” being the 
diary of Joseph Grinnell, who for eighteen months was one of a party of fortune hunters. 
The work is ‘‘dedicated to disappointed gold-hunters the world over,” but for what reason 
is not made plain, since in the text Mr. Grinnell assures us that in the midst of Arctic un- 
pleasantries he was ‘‘always happy!” Mr. Grinnell has set forth the ornithological results 
of his trip in Pacific Coast Avifamia No. /, but the present work sheds much light upon 
the difficulties under which he labored. The work is bound in cloth and boards and pub- 
lished by the David C. Cook Publishing Co., Chicago. 
