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meadowlark's nest with full complement of 
eggs, near Los Angeles, on February 7, this 
being by nearly a month the earliest nesting 
date of the species for this locality. 
Doubleday, Page & Company, of New York, 
will shortly issue an illustrated book on west- 
ern bird-life from the pen and camera of Mr. 
Wm. L. Finley. The book will be written in 
a popular vein, and will consist of intimate 
camera and note-book studies of certain com- 
mon birds that the everyday observer is liable 
to meet with. Mr. Finley has met with de- 
cided success in his lecture and magazine 
work, and we are confident that his book 
will be received as enthusiastically. We un- 
derstand, moreover, that there will follow in 
course of a year or so a much more pretentious 
volume dealing in a scientific way with the 
life-histories of the rarer birds of the Pacific 
Coast. This will occupy a place in our orni- 
thological literature as yet wholly vacant, and 
all Cooper Club members should lend every aid 
in their power to Messrs. Finley and Bohlman 
in their field-work with the camera. 
Mr. H. R. Taylor has recently secured by 
purchase the entire oological collection of 
Rev. J. M. Carroll of Waco, Texas, together 
with cabinets, trays and “good will.” The 
latter gentleman finds it necessary to devote 
his time to a field of activity which will proba- 
bly cause his removal from Waco. The col- 
lection is an exceptionally fine one, well pre- 
pared, and with some “great” variations in the 
series. Mr. Taylor now owns probably the 
most extensive oological collection on the 
coast. 
Mr. Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., of Cambridge, 
Mass., is in southern California for a few 
month's collecting, having just returned from 
a successful trip into the Yaqui country of 
Sonora. He intends to visit some of the 
Santa Barbara Islands, and if a suitable vessel 
can be chartered, Guadalupe Island off the 
Lower California coast. Mr. Brown is famous 
for his many years of field work in South 
America, where he has discovered over 100 
species of birds, and a great many new mam- 
mals. By dint of extreme courage and energy 
he has penetrated into the most remote dis- 
tricts, discovering such remarkable novelties 
as the white-tailed hummingbird, from the 
Santa Marta region, figured in a colored plate 
in the April, 1899, Auk. Mr. Brown's work is 
pursued wholly thru his love of collecting, tlio 
lie works partly in the interests of the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, and of 
Mr. Outram Bangs, the latter gentleman pub- 
lishing most of the results. 
A party of students from the biological de- 
partment of Throop Institute, Pasadena, will 
spend the spring vacation in the San Gabriel 
Canyon near Azusa. A base camp will be es- 
tablished, and a region of known area within 
a short radius will be as thoroly and re- 
peatedly canvassed as time permits, so as to 
obtain a census of the bird population. From 
this it is hoped to get an approximate esti- 
mate of the numbers of individuals of each 
characteristic species in the foot-hill district of 
Los Angeles County. 
We have heard again from Malcolm P. An- 
derson who is in Asia collecting natural history 
material for the British Museum. He has just 
finished a trip thru Korea where much of in- 
terest in the line of mammals was obtained. A 
paper is about to appear in the Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society of London, dealing 
with Mr. Anderson’s two years’ work in Japan. 
Altho longing to return to the Lhiited States, 
Mr. Anderson says he expects to remain abroad 
a year or two longer. 
Mr. Carroll Scott of the Southern Division, 
C. O. C\, has located for the year at a Nevada 
mining camp 16 miles southeast of Searchlight. 
In spite of its being an extremely desert re- 
gion, Mr. Scott has found much of interest in 
his surroundings, including 33 species of birds. 
Several of the latter are of peculiar interest, 
such as the Leconte thrasher and Scott oriole. 
The Club will expect a full report upon this 
remote region as soon after Mr. Scott’s return 
as he has time to work up his notes and mate- 
rial. 
George F. Breninger, widely known as a col- 
lector and taxidermist, died Dec. 3, 1905, at 
Phcenix, Arizona. The cause of his death 
was paralysis which resulted directly from 
arsenic poisoning incurred while preparing 
specimens. We have been informed by Mrs. 
Breninger that his library and collections are 
for sale. 
Minutes of Club Meetings 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
January. — The annual meeting of the 
Southern Division was held January 25, 1906, 
at the home of Mr. H. J. Lelande, in Los 
Angeles, with eighteen members present. 
Applications for membership from Bradshaw 
H. Swales, of Detroit, Mich., and Olga S. Tar- 
bell, of Pasadena, Cal., were presented, and the 
resignation of Edmund M. Havden was ac- 
cepted. 
The election of officers for 1906, resulted in 
the election of: O. W. Howard, President; W. 
B. Judson, Vice-President; J. Eugene Law, .Sec- 
retary; W. Lee Chambers, Treasurer. 
A motion thanking Mr. Clifton, the retiring 
Secretary, for his untiring efforts in the inter- 
ests of the Club was enthusiastically carried, 
and Mr. Clifton thanked the Club for its as- 
sistance in responding with papers and places 
for meetings. 
Mr. Lelande gave a short resume of the 
observations at the October Outing meeting, 
and named 47 varieties of birds observed in 
the vicinity of Newliali in the two days outing. 
After this, the Club adjourned to the dining 
room to a very sumptuous spread, which met 
with universal approval and a hearty vote of 
thanks from all present. 
J. Eugene Law, Secretary. 
