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will be eventually consulted by two or three 
specialists, but a four-page biography in place 
of tw’O might have gladdened twenty-six hun- 
dred readers. Sixty specimens of the Sierra 
Junco* Is human life tnot to mention bird 
life) worth so little? 
In like manner, we should have been de- 
lighted with a fuller series of photographs to 
illustrate the constant references to “associa- 
tions” and botanical as well as topographical 
features, if these ardent mummifiers of 37 
Costa Hummers and 38 Audubon Warblers 
and 51 Western Bluebirds could have spared 
the time from these mortuary rites. The 
half dozen photographs which are shown are 
excellently chosen, and greatly enhance the 
interest of the text, as do the map and pre- 
file diagram. 
Of minor criticisms none offer which re- 
flect in any degree upon the accuracy or 
wholesomeness or scientific worth of this fin- 
ished contribution to knowledge. The re- 
viewer deprecates the use of low'er case let- 
ters for the vernacular names of birds, as be- 
ing not only ungrammatical and vague, but 
ill-proportioned and offensive to the eye. 
Witness this from page 292 ; “The warbling, 
Cassin and Hutton vireos are arboreal for- 
agers” ; or this cryptogram ; “but the least is 
riparian, while the gray is distinctly a dry- 
slope forager”. Also the reviewer is of those 
who resent the attempted change of the long- 
established and logical term “summer resi- 
dent” in favor of “summer visitant”. If a 
bird does not reside where she rears her 
young, then she has no home or country. Am 
1 only a “winter visitant” at Santa Barbara, 
because I spend four months at home and 
eight, or thereabouts, afield? The State holds 
otherwfise and so does common sense. Aber 
hock der San Jacinto Report! — W. L. Daw- 
son. 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB 
MEETINGS 
SOUTHERN DIVISION 
December. — The regular meeting of the 
Southern Division of the Club was held at 
the Museum of History, Science, and Art, 
Thursday evening, December 18, 1913, with 
President Law in the chair. Those present 
were Messrs. Brown, Chambers, Daggett, 
Grey, Law, Miller, Morcom, Rich, Swarth, 
Willett, Wood, and Wyman. Fordyce Grin- 
nell, Jr., was a visitor. The minutes of the 
November meeting were read and approved, 
followed by the reading of the Northern Di- 
vision November minutes. New members 
were elected as follows : F. R. Decker, Pross- 
er, Washington ; G. H. Lings, Nyack, New 
York; Edwin S. Parker, Berkeley; P. C. 
Dutton, Stone Staffs, England. One new 
name was proposed : Finlay Simmons, Hous- 
ton, Texas, presented by W. Lee Chambers. 
The election of new members by the North- 
ern Division, as given in the minutes of the 
November meeting, was ratified by vote of 
this division. 
The action of the Northern Division in re- 
gard to questions arisen in connection with 
the Pacific Association of Scientific Societies, 
was approved, as it was evident that the 
Southern Division would be unable to par- 
ticipate in a meeting held at Seattle. The 
dues of the Club to the Association were or- 
dered paid. 
Nominations for officers of the Division 
for 1914 were now in order. The present in- 
cumbents (President, J. Eugene Law; Vice- 
president, Howard Robertson ; Secretary, 
H. S. Swarth) were placed in nomination by 
F. S. Daggett, seconded by L. E. Wyman. 
After some discussion the nominations were 
declared closed. 
Mr. F. Grinnell showed some -photographs 
of California naturalists, including a likeness 
of one of the Club’s honorary members, 
Lyman Belding, taken in 1882, at a time when 
he was doing much active bird work within 
the state. Mr. Miller exhibited a skin of the 
Slender-billed Shearwater {PufRnus tenu- 
irostris) recently taken by himself at Hyperion 
Beach, Los Angeles County, the second rec- 
ord for southern California. Adjourned. — 
H. S. Swarth, Secretary. 
January. — The January meeting of the 
Southern Division of the Cooper Ornitholog- 
ical Clnb was held at the Museum of His- 
tory, Science and Art, Thursday evening, 
January 29, 1914, with President Law in the 
chair, and the following members present . 
Mrs. E. H. Husher, and Messrs. Blain, Cham- 
bers, Daggett, Dial, Edwards, Eggleston, 
Esterly, Grey, Judson, Law, Layne, Morcom, 
Rich, Robertson, Snyder, Swarth, Wood, and 
Wyman. Visitors in attendance were Mrs. 
Minerva J. Fargo, and Miss Wood. 
The Southern Division minutes for Decem- 
ber were read and approved, followed by the 
Northern Division minutes for the December 
and January m6etings. One new member 
was elected, Mr. Finlay Simmons, of Hous- 
ton, Texas. New names proposed were; 
Mrs. Minerva J. Fargo, of Los Angeles, ano 
Miss Ada Wilson, of Pasadena, presented by 
Mrs. E. H. Husher ; C. G. Stivers, of Los 
Angeles, and L. R. Reynolds, of San Francis- 
co, by J. Grinnell; Miss Helen Powell, Berke- 
ley, by W. F. Bade; Miss Etta V. Little, Los 
Angeles, by H. C. Bryant; Luther Little, Los 
