SOVTER; )xwsxo JavAaY.--The regular monthly meeting of the Southern Division was held on January 28, 19.58, at the Los Angeles County Museum. The follow- ing names were proposed for membership: Leslie M. Baylor, 1100 So. Miller Ave., Mitchell, S.D., by Francis H. Boynton; Oscar Walter Johnson, 122 Audubon Way, Pullman, Wash., and Peter E. K. Shepherd, 280 South Fairway, Pullman, Wash., both by Irven O. Buss; Paula S. Boyer, 420 E. Second Ave., Roselle, N.J., George Brem, Jr., 211 No. Princevalle St., Gilroy, Calif., George Andrew Dorsey, Darlington School, Rome, Ga., S. Norris Gluck, 305 Beauregard St., Charleston, W. Va., Nicholas Gravem, Jr., 200 Elm Avenue, Mill Valley, Calif., Mrs. Louise Hoover Hauselt, Davenport, Calif., and William H. Moore, M.D., 919 Grace St., Bakersfield, Calif., all by C. V. Duff; Chas. Bertram Schaughency, Village Road, Green Village, N.J., and Arthur B. Singer, 30 Hightop Lane, Jericho, L.I., N.Y., both by Don R. Eckelberry; Rufus B. yon Kleinsmid, Univer- sity of Southern California, Los Angeles 7, Calif., by Ed N. Harrison; Fred S. Webster, Jr., 4926 Strass Dr., Austin 3, Tex., by Edgar B. Kincaid, Jr.; Daniel Lewis Fischer, 4845 Central Ave., Riverside, Calif., by Alden H. Miller; Gerald J. Bakus, 18624 48th Ave. West, Lynnwood, Wash., by Frank Richardson; William Dillon Hawes, P.O. Box 974, Lancaster, Calif., by Kenneth E. Stager; Kenneth E. Griffin, 2506 Glen Green, Hollywood 28, Calif., Raymond J. Grow, 513 West Fifth Ave., Gary, Ind., Jack P. Hailman, 4401 Gladwyne Dr., Bethesda 14, Md., Robert W. Kirkman, 9325 Dearborn Ave., South Gate, Calif., Harvey Lee Patten, 1310 Thomas Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Lowell O. Stephens, Jr., 911 Sheridan St., Laramie, Wyo., Don F. Sturzenack- er, 157 No. Orange Dr., Los Angeles 36, Calif., W. G. Sutton, Jr., lO31 Bel Air Court, Los An- geles 24, Calif., John Garnett Tyler, 603 Alta Ave., Santa Monica, Calif., and Ernest Jordan Wil- loughby, 1102 Cedar St., Santa Monica, Calif., all by Jack C. yon Bloeker, Jr.; and Paul A. Herman, 290 W. E1 Repetto Dr., Monterey Park, Calif., by Patrick Gould. The Nominating Committee through its chair- man, Ed N. Harrison, proposed that the incum- bent officers of the Southern Division be elected for another year, whereupon the president called for further nominations from the floor; there being none, Sidney B. Peyton moved that the nominations be closed and that the secretary be instructed to cast an unanimous ballot for the iacumbent officers. The motion was duly seconded and carried and the following officers were de- clared elected for the ensuing year: Thomas R. Howell, President; M. Dale Arvey, First Vice- President; Henry E. Childs, Jr., Second Vice- President; and Dorothy E. Groner, Secretary. Elton L. Morel reported a Wilson's Plover at Malibu Creek on December 12. Pat Gould re ported a Slate-colored Junco on the Occidental College campus, and Arnold Small stated that a Gray-headed Junco was seen at a feeding tray in Glendale on January 11. A Vermilion Flycatcher is wintering at the Audubon Nature Center in E1 Monte. Speaker of the evening, Tom J. Cade of the Department of Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles, spoke on "Summer Birds of the Arctic Slope of Alaska."--Doa(yrnr E. Secretary. FgBav3/4.--The regular monthly meeting of the Southern Division was held on February 25 1958, at the Los Angeles County Museum. The following names were proposed for membership: Donald A. Boltz, 1556 Brentwood Court, Walnut Creek, Calif., and Xion R. Langlois, 805 Paradise Rd., Modesto, Calif., by Jack C. yon Bloeker, Jr.; Robert Stewart Constable, 6521 Blucher Ave., Van Nuys, Calif., by Charles A. McLaughlin; Rodolfo Escalante Juan Benito Blanco 1030 Apto. 201, Montevideo, Uruguay, by Alden H. Miller; L. Lloyd Evans, 503 California Ave., Libby, Mont., by John L. Blackford; Charles O. Matcham, 2225 Robles Ave., San Marino, Calif., by Ed N. Harrison; J. Hill Hamon, Dept. of Bi- ology, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., and Robert David Weigel, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., by Pierce Brodkorb; Joseph L. Dvorak, 6125 W. Eddy St., Chicago 34, Ill., and Philip B. Heywood, 63 Beechmont St., Worcester, Mass., by C. V. Duff; and Ronald Clinton Willis, 38703 N. 32nd St. East, Palmdale, Calif., by Kenneth E. Stager. Gerhard Bakker, Jr., reported that a Steller's Jay was present in Huntington Park and that one had remained through the winter months last yeax. Sidney B. Peyton reported that in his yaxd a Bushtit and Bewick Wren have completed nests, both ready for eggs. Kenneth E. Stager, Curator of Birds and Mam- mals at the Los Angeles County Museum, talked on "Birds of the Bolivian Chaco."DoRolmr E. GlOOm, Secretary. MnRc.--The regular monthly meeting of the Southern Division was held on March 25, 1958, at the Los Angeles County Museum. The follow- ing names were proposed for membership: E. W. Carter, 234 Muirfield Rd., Los Angeles, Calif., by W. J. Shefiler; John H. Dearborn, Littlejohn Rd., Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and Byron E. Harrell, Dept. of Zoology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. Dakota, both by Thomas R. How- ell; Mr. U. Theodore Hammer, Camrose, Alberta, Canada, by Jack C. yon Bloeker, Jr.; and Willis C. Royall, Jr., 262 South Meade St., Denver 19, Colo., by Joe Marshall. Robert S. Constable reported a pair of Band- tailed Pigeons nesting in a phoenix palm at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, on March 14, 1958. "Bird Adventures in Southern Mexico and Central America" was the subject of a joint pro- gram given by Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Schroeder and Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Bakker, Jr. DoRo1/2 E. GRON.R, Secretary. NORTI{ERN DMSION FEuAR3/4.--The regular monthly meeting of the Northern Division was held on February 6, 1958, at the University of California, Berkeley. Mrs. Grace M. Miller, Box 103, Inverness, Cali- fornia, was proposed for membership by Howard L. Cogswell. The following field observations were present- ed. Robert S. Arbib observed a Little Blue Heron in immature plumage at Bay Maxshes, Redwood City, on January 4, 1958. L. Richaxd Mewaldt reported that a Kiskadee Flycatcher had been ob- served by Thomas Haxvey in the Willow Glen District of San Jose from October, 1957, through January, 1958. The bird had been eating bread on a feeding shelf. Presumably, this individual was an "escape" from an aviary. Russell H. Pray ob- served a White-throated Sparrow in Berkeley on February $ and 6. Paul F. Corel reported that Yellow-billed Magpies were observed along the Beax Creek Road, Contra Costa County, on the East Bay Christmas Bird Census, December 29, 1957. The guest speaker was Dr. Oliver P. Pearson of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, who pre- sented an illustrated talk entitled "A Traffic Sur- vey in Wild Rodent Runways."--RoB.R? I. Bow- 3KAN, Secretary. MARC.--The regular monthly meeting of the Northern Division was held on March 6, 1958, at the University of California, Berkeley. Martin A. Tucker, 33 Pala Ave., San Jose, Cali- fornia, and Dr. H. Thomas Harvey, 716 Garner Court, Santa Clara, California, were proposed for membership by L. Richard Mewaldt. R. P. Parsons reported that a female King Eider was observed in the harbor at Monterey Bay on February 22, 1958. The bird was seen in the area for several days thereafter. The guest speaker was Dr. L. Richard Mewaldt of the Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State College, whose talk was entitled "Zugunrv.,he, the Night Restlessness of Caged Migratory Birds."--RoB.aw I. BowMAwr, Secre- tary. ANNUAl. BUSINESS MEETING, 1958 The first session of the annual meeting of the members of the Cooper Ornithological Society (a corporation) was called to order by President J. R. Pemberton in the Little Theater, New Union Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 25, 1958. The minutes of the meeting of 1957 were read and approved. The following committees were appointed: Committee on Nominations--Junea W. Kelly, W. H. Behle, and J. T. Marshall; Committee to Examine Proxies--T. R. Howell, R. T. Orr, and K. E. Stager. The following proposals for membership were read: James R. Northern, Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles 7, Cali- fornia, by K. E. Stager; Prof. F. Carlos Leh- mann V., Apartado Nacional 680, Cali, Colombia, South America, by A. H. Miller; Jack B. Woody, 4 Humboldt Village, Arcata, California, by F. H. Boynton; Richard E. Warner, Division of Fish and Game, P.O. Box 5425, Honolulu 14, Hawaii, by W. J. Shefiler; Clifford H. Fiscus, 841 Sullivan Street, Seattle 8, Washington, by R. T. Holmes; James R. Koplin, 1632 South Russell Street, Missoula, Montana, by R. S. Hoffmann; Mrs. Viola E. Washburn, 1013 Walnut Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, by H. R. Smith; Robert Grant Crippen, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley 4, California, by R. C. Banks; Mrs. Har- riet Humphrey Burkhart, Route 3, Canadohta Lake, Union City, Pennsylvania, by W. C. Hanna; William C. Beckwith, 833 15th Street, Santa Monica, California, by T. R. Howell; Douglas Bruce McHenry, 168 West Third North, Logan, Utah, by G. H. Linford; Arthur J. Frank, 2534 N. Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee 11, Wisconsin, by S. B. Peyton; Mrs. Ernest B. Keyt, 657 36th Street, Manhattan Beach, California, R. Wayne Moody, M.D., 1169 Colorado Boulevard, Denver 6, Colorado, and Craig Smith, 301 Wyckoff Ave- nue, Ithaca, New York, by J. C. yon Bloeker, Jr.; Thomas Fisher Hamilton, 1928 Mandeville Can- yon Road, Los Angeles 49, California, and John R. MacFaden, 417 South Hill Street, Los An- geles, California, by E. N. Harrison; Dean Tor- rence, 2145 Benecia Avenue, Los Angeles 25, Cali- fornia, Richard McPike Brown, Crater Lake Na- tional Park, Fort Klamath Rural Station, Klam- ath Falls, Oregon, and Helen M. Alexander, 2121 West 9th Street, Los Angeles 6, California, by C. V. Duff. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned until April 26. The second session of the annual meeting of the members of the Corporation was called to order by President J. R. Pemberton in the Little Thea- ter, New Union Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 26, 1958. Thomas R. Howell, chairman of the Commit- tee to Examine Proxies, reported proxies for 892 members. A quorum was declared present. Mrs. Junea W. Kelly, chairman of the Com- mittee on Nominations, presented the following names for nomination to the Board 6f Directors: John Davis, C. V. Duff, Ed N. Harrison, Thomas R. Howell, Alden H. Miller, J. R. Pemberton,. Frank A. Pitelka, W. J. Shefiler, and Jack C. von Bloeker, Jr. President Pemberton called for further nomina- tions from the floor. There were none. C. V. Duff moved that the nominations be declared closed and that the Secretary be instructed to cast an unanimous ballot for those named. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. C.V. Duff presented the following resolution: The members of the Cooper Ornithological So- ciety, in their annual session at the University of Utah, wish to express their deep appreciation to Dr. Olpin, President, and to the Board of Regents and Faculty of the University of Utah, for their generous provision of the splendid facilities that have made the meeting so pleasant for all. Further, we wish to express our gratitude to Dr. William H. Behle, Mrs. Fern Talnter, and Dr. Stanley Mulaik and their Local Committee, and to the Utah Audubon Society and the Utah Nature Study Society, for all their efforts that have made this one of the outstanding Annual Meetings in the Society's history. Further, we wish to express our thanks to Dr. and Mrs. George A. Allen and family for their delightful hospitality on the tour of the Allen Aviary on Thursday, April 24, 1958. It was moved, seconded, and carried unani- mously that this resolution be adopted. C. V. Duff, Business Manager, presented his annual report. During the year, .282 shares in stock dividends were received by the Society. In- come during the past year was $4351, $571 more than in 1957. The following proposals for membership were read: Leon Stanley, 129 F Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, by J. Davis; Herbert Krause, 1811 South First Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by W. Taber; Stephen C. Bromley, 9359 Gotham Street, Downey, California, by K. E. Stager; Donald Daynes, 1812 Herbert Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, by S. B. Peyton; Floyd A. Thompson, 232-F S.W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, Paul E. Traplet, 2830 E. 37th Street South, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jessop B. Low, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, and Reed Ferris, 941 S. 13th East, Salt Lake City, Utah, by C. V. Duff. --JOHN DAVIS, Secretary.