Contacts 'is not member of' All iCloud or On my Mac

Can someone, please, explain the meaning of ‘is not member of’ in Contacts when applied to ‘iCloud’ or ’On My Mac’ ?
As an example, I got the following results on some list of contacts.
          clicking on ‘All contacts’ reveals a list of 254 contacts
          clicking on ‘All iCloud’    reveals a list of 254 contacts
          clicking on ‘On my Mac’ reveals a list op 241 contacts
          so I created the following smart groups:
          ‘is in iCloud’           for all cards satisfying ‘is member of ’ ‘iCloud’
          ‘is on HD’            for all cards satisfying ‘is member of’ ‘On My Mac’
          clicking on ‘is in iCloud’           reveals a list of 245 contacts
          clicking on ‘is on HD’             reveals a list of 241 contacts
So far so good. However, I also created the following 4 smart groups:
          ‘is not in All iCloud’           for all cards satisfying ‘is not member of ’ ‘iCloud’
          ‘is not in iCloud’                         for all cards satisfying ‘is not member of ’ ‘is in iCloud’
          ‘is not in On My Mac’ for all cards satisfying ‘is not member of’ ‘On My Mac’
          ‘is not on my HD’          for all cards satisfying ‘is not member of’ ‘On My Mac’
and
          clicking on ‘is not in All iCloud’           revealed a list of 241 contacts (I expected 0)
          clicking on ‘is not in iCloud’                 revealed a list of     0 contacts (as expected)
          clicking on ‘is not in On My Mac’ revealed a list of 254 contacts (I expected 254-241=13)
          clicking on ‘is not on my HD’           revealed a list of     0 contacts (I expected 254-241=13)
finally, the smart group of card ‘is not member of’ ‘is not in All iCloud’ captained no cards.
I am puzzelled. Is this an error? It does not seem to comely with Apple’s own ‘OS X Human Interface Guidelines’.
Nevertheless I would be vere pleased with a good explanation of the ‘is not ember of’ and, prefferably, some way to reveal the cards of ‘All Cloud’ but not ‘On my Mac’ (iCloud is my default account and I want to have a copy off all cards on my Mac)

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