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 JAN., x9o2. I THE CONDOR 2 5 North American Birds. WITMER STONE. (15 min.) Results Obtained Under the Thayer Fund. WILLIAM DUTCHER. (20 min.) National Bird Protection--Its Opportunities and Limitations. T.S. PALMER. (25 min.) Gulls of the Maine Coast, and Miscellaneous Notes. Illustrated by lantern slides. WM. DtJTCZER and Wx. L. BAIr. (60 min.) Some Results of Bird Protection. Illustrated by lantern slides. FRANK M. CHArMAN. (15 min.) GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Mr. T. l. Slevin of San Francisco, is enjoying a short collecting trip in Arizona, where he is securing specimens for his private collection. On January 7 Joseph Grinnell addressed the Section of Ornithology of the California Acad- emy of Sciences on the "Distribution of the Song Sparrow." Richard C. McGregor, at latest accounts,was aboard the U.S. S. Pathfinder at Nagasaki, bound for Manila, where he expects to be located for several months to come. Frank S. Daggett returned from an outing on the desert about Dec. x, suffering from remittent fever, and has since been seriously ill. At last accounts he is mending slowly and we trust he will shortly be fully restored to health. Geo. F. Breninger, the well-known Arizona ornithologist, will leave Jan. J on a collecting expedition in the interests of the Field Columbian Museum. He will collect as far south as the City of Mexico and among the islands off the coast. Twelve English skylarks have recently reached Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and after they have become acclimated it is proposed to liberate them, with the hope that they may take up their permanent residence on the coast. Chas. K. Reed has favored us with Volume x of American Ornilholoy, handsomely bound in cloth. In the center of the front cover, encircled by a raised border, is a colortype of a blue bird at its nesting hole, giving the bound volume a peculiarly artistic effect. The superb eollectiou of birds ownel by Dr. A. K. Fisher, which we hoped might go to California, has beeu lurchased by Mr. John E. Thayer of Lancaster, Mass. This collection contains 5o0o specimens and is rich in material representing individual and seasonal variation. Geo. W. Morse of Ashley, Ind., is engaged in the commendable work of trying to induce uniformity of data blanks among oologists. This is a difficult task, since individual tastes seem to vary extremely on this point. Mr. bIorse has originated a very neat form, as also one for field notes, from which the data blanks are later copied. We commend the forms to those interested and samples may be secured on application to Mr. Morse. On Christmas day, x9or, an interesting event was solemnized at Clipper Gap, Cal., when Miss Jessie A. Bancroft became the bride of vlr. Ernest Adams of San Jose. Mr. Adams is a prominent Cooperitc, who has taken an active part in the sessions of the Northern Division for years past, and his colleagues will regret his departure for Clipper Gap where he has orchard interests. The cordial well wishes of the Club will go out to Mr. and Mrs. Adams who, by the way, are located in an excellent bird region. It is well that the Cooper Club enjoys a large membership, else its permanent working force might at times be momentarily crippled by the trend of many of its members toward the ranks of the benedicts. Arthur J. Zschokke of Palo Alto was united in marriage on Dec. 28 to Miss Elsie Older of Oakland, the couple to locate at Palo Alto. Mr. Zsehokke has for sev- eral years held the record for the mile walk in the Stauford track team, which accomplish- ment usually stands the ornithologist in good stead. He has also been credited with taking numerous sets of white-tailed kite from town lots in tbe heart of Palo Alto! A book, scarcely ornithological in its nature, but interesting in the extreme to then friends of its author, has just appeared, entitled "Gold Huntlug in Alaska," being the diary of Joseph Grinuell, who for eighteen mouths was one of a party of fortune hunters. The work is "dedicated to disappointed gold-huuters the world over," .but for what reason is not made plain, since in the text Mr. Grinnell assures us that in the midst of Arctic un- pleasautries he was "always happy!" Mr. Grinnell has set forth the ornithological results of his. trip in Pacific Coasl Avfauna No. l, but the present work sheds much light upon the difficulties under which he labored. The work is bound in cloth and boards and pub- lished by the David C. Cook Publishing Co., Chicago.