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with the loll owing result: for President, Dr. 
F. W. D'Evely.n; Senior Vice-Pres., Mr. H. S. 
Swarth and Dr. W. K. Fisher; Junior Viee- 
Pres. , J. R. Pemberton and E. W. Gifford; .Sec- 
retary, J. S. Hunter and Walter P. Taylor. 
The business meeting over, Mr. E. W. Gif- 
ford read a paper describing what he saw at 
the home of Prof. C. O. Whitman of Chicago, 
who is studying pigeons from an evolutionary 
standpoint. Dr. I)’ Evelyn read extracts from 
a report of his friend Mr. Alwin Haagner, sec- 
retary of the South African Ornithological 
Union, in regard to the economic value of birds 
of prey. From this report it is evident that 
the residents of South Africa are about as 
ignorant of the value of our birds of prey as 
the people of our own country were a few years 
ago. 
Owing to the lateness of the hour, Mr. Em- 
erson’s paper on “Nestlings of the California 
Hawks and Owls” was held over until the next 
meeting. 
Mr. H. L. Coggins, former secretary of the 
Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, spoke of 
the work of his Club and exprest himself as 
being highly pleased to meet with members of 
the Cooper Club, many of whom he had had 
the pleasure of corresponding with while at his 
home in Delaware. 
H. W. Carriger, Sec ’y pro tew. 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
November. — The November meeting was 
called to order by Vice-President H. J. Lelande 
at his office in the City Hall, Los Angeles, 
Thursday evening, Dec. 3, 1908, with members 
W. Lee Chambers, Virgil W. Owen, George 
Willett, H. B. Ivaeding, Howard Wright, Pin- 
gree I. Osburn, Chester Lamb, Howard Rob- 
ertson, Willard Chamberlain and J. Eugene 
Law present; and visiting, Mr. Howard E. 
Carper. 
The minutes of the last meeting, Oct. 1, 1908, 
were read and approved. 
Applications for membership were presented 
as follows: Howard E. Carper, 5046 Fisher 
St., Los Angeles, Cal., proposed by H. B. 
Kaeding; H. E. Wilder, Riverside, Cal., pro- 
posed by Joseph Grinnell; Clarence II. Luther, 
Fayetteville, Ark., by application sent to the 
secretary; J. Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa., 
proposed by J. E. Law. 
On motion by Mr. Willett, seconded by Mr. 
Chamberlain and duly carried, the Secretary 
was instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of 
those present electing to active membership 
Luther J. Goldman, subject to the approval of 
the Club-at-Large. 
On motion by Mr. Kaeding, seconded by 
Mr. Chambers and duly carried, Mr. Robertson 
was appointed a committee of one to assist Mr. 
Emerson of the Northern Division in raising 
fnnds to finance the Ten-year Index of The 
Condor. 
Mr. Kaeding outlined briefly the plan of the 
Index as follows, exhibiting a sample page: 
The index records every record of every 
species that occurs in the entire Condor, 
whether Latin or vernacular name be used; 
gives all the authors and their writings ar- 
ranged chronologically; and abbreviations will 
be eliminated as much as possible. 
The primary idea in typographical arrange- 
ment will be to have a page so arranged as to 
appeal to the eye and to have the most impor- 
tant items in black face type so as to be readily 
found; with this idea in view, the name of the 
species will be in blackface type, and the 
names of the authors also; the volume will be 
indicated by a small Roman numeral in black- 
face and the page numbers will be light. Ar- 
ranged in this way, the first thing that strikes 
the eye is the name sought; the next thing is 
the volume number, and then the page refer- 
ence is easily found. In addition to this, 
there will be a few special lists, such as all 
new species in one list, and all albinos in one 
list, etc. The only abbreviation used will be 
“rev. “for “review”. The following excerpt 
shows style. 
BULLETIN 
of the 
COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 
and 
THE CONDOR 
TEN-YEAR INDEX 
1899-1908 
Abbott, Gerard Alan, viii, up the Yellow- 
stone on a pinto, 151 
Abdimia abdimii, x, 12 
Acanthis hornemannii exilipes, ii, 114; iv, 
142 
linaria, ii, 113; iii, 21; iv, 45, 137, 142; viii, 
27; x, 23, 171 
linaria linaria, viii, 120 
Accipiter, ix, 86, 136, 154, 187 
atricapillus, x, 162 
atricapillus striatulus, ii, 63; iii, 122, 161; 
iv, 81, 141 
cooperi, i, 44, 91; ii, 16, 63; iii, 45, 122, 161; 
iv, 77, 129; vi, 42, 135; vii, 13, 25, 74, 78, 
144; viii, 96; 
ix, 86, 154, 187; x, 108, 129, 138, 147, 162 
cooperi mexicanus, ix, 136 
gularis, viii, 15 
plumbarius, ix, 57 
velox, i, 44, 91; ii, 16, 63, 90; iff, 45, 70, 122, 
161; iv, 10, 39, 141; v, 129; vii, 74; viii, 20; 
x, 66, 108, 161 
velox pacificus, vii, 78; ix, 136 
velox rufilatus, vi, 22, 42; vii, 141 
Acredula, ix, 147 
Acridotheres tristis, iv, 60; v, 79 
Actitis macularia, ii, 15; iii, 31, 121; iv, 17; v, 
49, 51; vi, 20, 48; vii, 110; viii, 19, 27; ix, 
26, 78, 187; x, 20, 83, 126, 130, 160, 197, 235 
There will be between 40 and 60 pages of in- 
dex matter, comprising nearly fifteen thousand 
distinct records; the entire index matter in- 
cluding names and titles and numbers is about 
thirty thousand words — quite a respectable 
book; by the time the proof is read I will have 
put in about 600 hours on it. MS will be ready 
for the printer December 15. 
Mr. Howard Wright exhibited a specimen of 
Xantus Murrelet and yonng a third wn, 
taken at Coronado Islands June 28, 1908. Ad- 
journed. 
J. E. Law, Secretary. 
