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 Sept.,1917 MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS ' 175 OF WEST CENTRAL OREGON. By ALFRED C. SHELTON. --Univ. Oregon Bull., new series, vol. XlV, no. 4, January, 1917, pp. 1-51, map, 10 halftone figs. on 4 "plates"; our copy re- ceived May 16, 1917. We have observed that the typographical correctness of a published paper is nearly always a pretty good criterion of its worth- iness in other respects. If an author has taken pains to do thorough proof-reading, attending to every detail of punctuation and spelling, he is very likely to have exerted a like degree of care in selecting, testing and compiling the facts which make up his pa- per. The present contribution gives an imme- diate impression of careful execution throughout. And close scrutiny of the data presented discloses no serious error as far as we have been able to judge. Field work in Oregon has not as yet been prosecuted very far; at least there have been but few distributional studies. The present one, dealing with the birds of a section of cen- tral Oregon extending from the Cascades west through the upper Willamette country to the seacoast, is consequently very wel- COle, Mr. Shelton has essayed to divide the area treated into six belts or life-zones, in a gen- eral way paralleling the seacoast and moun- tain axes, as shown by his map. The dis- tribution of the birds is given in terms of these, with good effect we should say. A total of 143 species of land birds is listed, the more notable among which are the Hep- burn Rosy Finch, Alaska Pine Grosbeak, Al- pine Three-toed Woodpecker, and Great Gray Owl. These four species were all found on the high Cascade Mountains, where the Rosy Finch, at least, is practical- ly certain to nest. The region of Mr. Shelton's work, with the University o'f Oregon as headquarters, is one of exceptional interest as regards its vertebrate zoology. It is to be hoped that he will find conditions favorable to prosecut- ing his studies much farther. Incidentally we note from the present contribution that the University of Oregon Department of Zoology is already possessed of some valua- ble material in the line of rare birds.--J. GRINNELL. MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS NORTHERN DIVISION JuLY.--The regular meeting of the North- ern Division of the Cooper Ornithological Club was held at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology on Thursday evening, 5uly 19, 1917, with President Evermann in the chair. A number of visitors were present, among whom were Mrs. Malcolm P. Anderson, Miss Dodge, Miss Dorothea Harcus, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Heller, Miss Olive Henderson, Mr. Kibbe, Mrs. Charles H. Lee, Miss Lela Len- rest, Mrs. J. Labarthe, Mr. Martens, Miss Stanley, Dr. Spalding, Mr. and Mrs. Slaythe, and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Turner..The members present were Messrs. Anderson, Bishop, Carriger, Evermann, Dixon, De Groot, Heinemann, Labarthe, Lastreto, Squires, Swarth, Wheeler; Mrs. Allen, Miss Atsatt, Mrs. Kibbe, Mrs. Kluegel, Mrs. New- hall, and Mrs. Schlesinger. The minutes of the May meeting were read and corrected, and the minutes for the April, May and June meetings of the Southern Division were read. The ten pro- pesals for membership recorded in the min- utes of the Southern Division were approv- ed, and the name of Miss Edna Billings, Harrington, Washington, was proposed by Mr. Morton E. Peck. A letter from Mr. E. W. Nelson was read, acknowledging his election to honorary membership in the Club. The report of the business managers, Messrs. Chambers and Law, was read by the secretary, after which Vice President Squires took the .chair and announced the program of the evening: a paper on the bird rookeries at Pyramid Lake by Dr. Evermann. Since all efforts to procure a lantern had failed, Dr. Evermann postponed his paper on the subject announced and gave an ac- count of recent visits to Los Barios, Bird Rock, the Farallon Islands and Pyramid Lake, and raisedl the question of the pro- tection of fish-eating birds. Mr. Wheeler, who had visited Pyramid Lake in 1898. add- ed some interesting items and joined Dr. Bishop in a protest against over-protec- tion. Mr. Heinemann offered a motion that the report of the business managers, which had been read earlier in the evening, be accept- ed and placed on file, and that the Club ex- tend a hearty vote of thanks to Messrs. Chambers and Law. The motion was un- animously carried. Adjourned.--AELiA S. ALLEN, Secretary. SOUTItERN DIVISION MAY.--The regular monthly meeting was held at the Museum of History, Science and Art, May 31, 1917, with President Miller in the chair and the following members pres- ent: Messrs. Bishop, Chambers, Daggett, Hanna, Holland, Little, Reis, Rich, Robert- sen, Peyton, Shepardson, Wall, Wyman, and