Mar., 1902. I 
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. 
O. W. Howard and H. S. .Swarth have departed for a five months’ collecting trip in Arizona. 
On March 4 Mr. Chas. R. Keyes presented a paper before the Ornithological Section of the 
Academy of Sciences entitled “Eastern Iowa as a Field for the Ornithologist.’’ 
R. C. McGregor, whose ornithological work has become extralimital, has occasioned some 
uneasiness by sending a note from the “Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes for the Philippine Is- 
lands’’! 
Malcolm P. Anderson has spent the past winter in the Sisyiyou Mountains in the north- 
western part of the state. From latest advices Mr. Anderson has been very successful in obtain- 
ing several birds of particular interest. 
Mr. J. H. Bowles of Tacoma, Wash, has in process a work on The Birds of Washington to be 
issued at perhaps au early date. Mr. Bowles’ painstaking and accurate writings assure ornitho- 
logists of a treat in the completed work. 
Mr. H. W. P'ovvler, a well-known Philadelphia ornithologist and formerly .secretary of the 
Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, is rfow located at Stanford Univeasity and delivered a most 
entertaining paper at the March meeting of the Northern Division. 
Oologists will regret to hear that Mr. A. M. Shields contemplates disposing of his entire egg 
collection, which is one of the most extensive remaining on the coast. Lack of time in which to 
care for the collection has brought about this decision, but it is to be hopetl that many of the 
fine series will be secured intact by other advanced oologists. 
An Alameda paper prints the following advertisement which has been traced to H. R. Tay- 
lor: “F'or S.'V.LE. Live great horned owl and peregrine falcon, handsome birds, little care, fed 
once a day on meat. Owl has a fine bass voice and hoots nightly and oh foggy mornings; better 
than an alarm clock; lives in cahoots with falcon. Reasonable price; address ‘Hoot Mon, ’ this 
office.’’ 
Archibald J. Campbell, author of “Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,” and a prominent 
ornithologist of that region writes Mr. M. S. Ray under date of Dec. 12, 1901: “You may be glad 
to hear that we have started an ornithological union in Australia wdth an official journal called 
‘The Emu.’ So far the movement has received great encouragement not only from home but 
abroad also.’’ 
As we go to press an expedition is about to depart to engage in work among the fishes, inver- 
tebrates and birds of the Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Chas. H. Gilbert of .Stanford University is in 
charge and is accompanied by Walter K. Fisher and J. O. Snyder, besides other zoologists, who 
will have their headquarters on the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. The expedition 
will be gone six months. 
Mr. Win. .Alauson Br3'an is investigating desirable birds to introduce into the Hawaiian Is- 
lands. There have been recent invasions of injurious insects and Mr. Bryan hopes tc find some 
California species adapted to the conditions of the islands which will at the same time extermi- 
nate these pests. We doubt the advisability of introducing foreign birds for such purposes. 
Species occasionally change their habits under new conditions forcibly imposed and are likely to 
prove undesirable citizens. 
It is worth remarking that not in the nine years of its existence has a meeting of the Cooper 
Ornithological Club been deferred on account of inclement weather until the session of March i. 
On that day the elements conspired to bring about such boisterous conditions that few even of 
the enthusiasts chose to venture out. Mr. Grinnell, with a jiroper rctrard for his |)residential 
duties, and accompanied by an anchor and an umbrella, sought the meeting place at Stanford 
University where he informallv ‘received’ the kindred spirits who assembled. The meeting was 
postponed and the session of a week later proveil one of the most enthusiastic of recent years. 
The chapter arrangement suggested by Mr. Daggett some months ago and later embodied 
in the new constitution of the club, bids fair to become a realit\’. The Oakland members of 
the club, headed by Misses Helen Swett and Bertha L. Chapman, hope to organize a chap- 
ter at an early date. If so, Oakland can claim honor for the initial chapter, and other sec- 
tions should rapidly follow the example. 
