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THE CONDOR 



Vol. X 



THE CONDOR 



An Illustrated Magazine 

 of "Western OrnitKolog'y 



Publisht Bi-Nonthly by the Cooper Ornithologi- 

 cal Club of CalifornisL 



JOSEPH GRINNELL. Editor, - Berkeley. Ca^l. 



W. LEE CHAMBERS. Business Manager. Santa. Mon- 



icaL, Cal. 



WILLIAM L. FINLEY 



ROBERT B. ROCKWELL 



AssociMe Editors 



Hollywood, California: Publisht Nov. 25, 1908 



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EDITORIAL NOTES 



Again it becomes necessary to annotmce a 

 change in the business management of The; 

 Condor. Mr. Law finds it impossible for him 

 to longer attend to the duties of this office, 

 and Mr. W. Lee Chambers will henceforth 

 take charge of our business affairs. Dues and 

 subscriptions should therefore be remitted 

 promptly to W. LEE Chambers, Santa 

 Monica, California. 



For preparing the 1908 Index appended to 

 the present issue of The Condor, we have to 

 thank Mr. Henry B. Kaeding. The compila- 

 tion of the yearly index is becoming more and 

 more of an undertaking as our magazine 

 grows. And it relieves the editorial depart- 

 ment of a large amount of labor when some- 

 one outside assumes that part of the work and 

 carries it to a satisfactory completion, as in 

 the present instance. 



The Birds of Washington, which Messrs. 

 Dawson and Bowles have been working upon 

 for the past four years is to go to press the 

 first of the year, and finished copies are ex- 

 pected by May 1, 1909. This sumptuous work 

 will be the most voluminous single publica- 

 tion which has yet appeared dealing solely 

 with the birds of any part of the West. An 

 admirable feature will be the reproductions 

 from drawings and paintings by Allan Brooks, 

 now conceded to be one of the foremost bird 

 artists in the world. 



The Ten-year Index is almost finished. Mr. 

 Kaeding, who is devoting himself to this task, 

 believes it will be ready to go to press by Jan- 

 uary 15th next. In our July number we laid 

 the matter of financing the Ten-year Index 

 before Condor readers. We have so far re- 

 ceived just two responses to our invitation for 

 donations to meet the cost of the publication 

 (about $100). These two replies were accom- 

 panied by three dollars, which lea\'es some $97 

 still to collect! We wonder, after all, just how 

 much the Ten-year Index is to be appreciated. 

 One man is putting in hundreds of dollars 

 worth of time on it, and two or three others 

 will be donating their services in large meas- 

 ure before the thing is printed. To what ex- 

 tent is this undertaking of real importance to 

 other Cooper Club members ? 



Mr. Austin Paul Smith has returned from 

 Mexico and is now working with the birds on 

 the U. S. side of the lower Rio Grande in the 

 vicinity of Brownville, Texas. 



Mr. H. E. W^ilder, of Riverside, has been 

 assisting Mr. IT. S. Swarth in exploring the 

 Trabuco region of southern California, in the 

 interests of the University of California 

 Museum. 



Mr. William L. Einley of Portland, Oregon, 

 left for New York the middle of October, and 

 attended the annual meeting of the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies on October 

 27th. He also attended the meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union at Cambridge, 

 Mass., commencing November 16th. 



Volume X of The Condor consists of over 

 250 pages, by far the largest volume of our 

 magazine yet issued. We believe the quality 

 of the articles composing this volume to have 

 never been exceded. If our constituents ap- 

 prove of the efforts which have resulted as 

 above, let them signify it by rendering their 

 prompt and increased support to Volume XI, 

 1909. 



MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 

 northern division 



September. — The Northern Division of the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club met in the rooms 

 of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce on the 

 evening of September 12, President D' Evelyn 

 in the chair. The minutes of the previous 

 meeting were read and approved. Dr. Ella 

 Cool Walker, 509 13th and Washington Sts., 

 Oakland, Frank B. Rudolph, 523 10th Street, 

 Oakland, Dr. Clarence E. Edwords, Cali- 

 fornia Promotion Committee, San F'rancisco, 

 and Annie M. Alexander, 1006 16th St., Oak- 

 land, were elected to active membership. 



Dr. D'Evelyn read a short paper on the kill- 

 ing of a flock of swans by being swept over 

 the Niagara Falls. The paper was discussed 

 by the members present and numerous other 

 instances of the sanie sort were reported. 



A very interesting paper was read by Mr. 

 Grinnell on the causes of bird migration. After 

 the discussion on this paper the meeting ad- 

 journed. 



H. W. Carriger, Secretary pro tern. 



