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THE CONDOR 



Vol. XIX 



THE CONDOR 



A Magazine of 

 "Western OrnitHology 



Published Bi-Monthly by the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club 

 J. GRINNELL, Editor 

 HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 



J. EUGENE LAW 

 W. LEE CHAMBERS 



> Business Managers 



Hollywood, California: Published July 25, 1917 



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Address W. Lee Chambers, Business Manager, 

 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. 



EDITORIAL NOTES 



Messrs. Chambers and Law have filed 

 with the two Divisions of the Cooper Club 

 their report of the organization's finances 

 for the year 1916. This report shows a re- 

 markably healthy state of affairs when one 

 considers the rather perplexing conditions 

 under which publishers have had to labor 

 the past year or so. To our Business Mana- 

 gers is due the Club's heartiest thanks for 

 the intelligent attention they have devoted 

 to its affairs. The following are some of 

 the outstanding features of the report. The 

 total receipts for the year amounted to 

 $2143.39, derived as follows: Dues, $1281.35; 

 subscriptions to Condor, $223.45; advertis- 

 ing, $4.00; sale of back Condors, $71.59; sale 

 of Avifaunas, $338.00; life memberships, 

 $225.00. Expenditures involved $1991.61, 

 covering the following items: Printing Con- 

 dor, $1167.56; half-tone cuts and other illus- 

 trations, $124.65; separates, $8.21; Editorial 

 expense, $22.94; Managerial expense, 

 $149.05; Division expenses, $59.20; balance 

 on Avifauna xi, $460.00. In bank on Janu- 

 ary 1, 1916, $88.08; on January 1, 1917, 



$239.86. Against this latter fund, however, 

 should be debited advance dues and sub- 

 scriptions received on 1917 account; indeed, 

 an actual deficit is figured for 1916, of 

 $142.25. Nevertheless the outlook for 1917 

 is not discouraging, in spite of the world 

 events which are bound to have a depress- 

 ing effect on every enterprise for the pro- 

 duction of other than the basic necessities 

 of life and war. It is quite likely that a re- 

 duction in the size of The Condor for 1918 

 will be necessary. It is planned to establish 

 a reserve this year to cover possible de- 

 crease in income in 1918. Ornithological 

 periodicals the world over have already 

 shown more or less reduction in size; some 

 of them have suspended altogether. We 

 have been until now the most fortunate, and 

 prospects with us are still far from serious. 



The Cooper Club suffered the loss of a 

 useful and widely known member in the 

 death of Norman DeWitt Betts who, on May 

 21, 1917, was instantly killed by lightning at 

 his cattle ranch in northeastern Utah. 

 Graduated from Cornell University as a 

 mechanical engineer, and employed for sev- 

 eral years in the United States Forest Ser- 

 vice, Betts's work had taken him into the 

 field in several states of the middle west. 

 At the time of his death he was thirty-seven 

 years of age and was therefore at a period 

 which promised much for ornithology, for 

 he had become practiced as a field observer 

 and had begun to record notes of much gen- 

 eral interest on the bird-life in the little 

 known region of his new home. His first 

 publications were in The AuTc and Bird-Lore 

 and were written from St. Louis in 1909 and 

 1910. Later, notes in the same magazines 

 were contributed from Boulder and from 

 Madison. In The Condor of July, 1916, ap- 

 peared an account written by Betts relative 

 to the birds encountered during his trip to 

 Montana in the summer of 1915. Of great- 

 est interest, however, is his list of the birds 

 of Boulder County, Colorado, a paper of 

 fifty-five pages published by the University 

 of Colorado as Number Four of Volume Ten 

 of their "Studies".— O. Widmann. 



PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 



How to Make Friends With Birds 

 What to do to make one's home grounds at- 

 tractive to | bird life. From nesting boxes 

 to winter feeding | By Niel Morrow Ladd | 

 President of the Greenwich Bird Protective 

 Society. ] Member of the Linnaean Society | 

 [design] | More than 200 illustrations | Gar- 

 den City New York | Doubleday, Page & 

 Company | 1916. Pp. 8 + 228, illus., as above, 

 some colored. 



