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THE CONDOR 



Vol. XIX 



THE CONDOR 



A Magazine of 

 "Western OrnitHolog'y 



Published Bi-Monthly by the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club 

 J. GRINNELL, Editor 

 HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 

 J. EUGENE LAW 

 W. LEE CHAMBERS 



r Business Managers 



Hollywood, California: Published Dec. 7, 1917 



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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 



The editors of The Condor are again in- 

 debted to Mr. J. R. Pemberton, this time for 

 the annual index which concludes the pres- 

 ent issue. Mr. Pemberton has further vol- 

 unteered to tackle the second ten-year index 

 to The Condor, which will be in order for 

 preparation after the end of 1918. In this 

 connection the editors will welcome sugges- 

 tions or expressions of opinion as to style 

 and degree of comprehensiveness of the 

 next index. Shall it conform closely to the 

 style set by the first? 



During the past several years Mr. Lever- 

 ett M. Loomis has been working almost con- 

 tinuously on the extensive collections of 

 tubinarine birds in the California Academy 

 of Sciences. As a result he has now prac- 

 tically completed a monograph of the group 

 as existing throughout the world. This is 

 to be published at once by the Academy, and 

 its appearance may be confidently expected 

 to throw much new light on the relation- 

 ships of the American species. 



We learn through Mr. Alexander Wetmore 

 that the manuscript for Volume VIII of Ridg- 

 way's Birds of North and Middle America is 



now ready for the press. This volume in- 

 cludes the gulls and shore-birds, and will be 

 welcomed as the first systematic revision 

 of these groups for many years. 



Mr. Rollo H. Beck has returned to New 

 York from his five-year term of field col- 

 lecting in South America. He secured in all 

 about 8000 bird skins, which have been add- 

 ed to the Brewster-Sanford collections in 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



In the death of Evan Davis, who joined 

 the Cooper Ornithological Club in 1894, the 

 Club loses one of its oldest members, and 

 the community in which he lived loses a 

 highly respected citizen. Mr. Davis was al- 

 ways a student and lover of birds. He own- 

 ed a considerable collection of eggs, but his 

 oological activity was limited by conscien- 

 tious scruples against collecting on Sunday. 

 He was a member of numerous fraternal or- 

 ders, and for many years had been a promi- 

 nent church worker. In recognition of his 

 sterling qualities, the Cooper Ornithological 

 Club has passed resolutions deploring the 

 death of Mr. Davis as that of an earnest 

 student and true gentleman, whose place 

 cannot be easily filled. 



The California Museum of Vertebrate Zo- 

 ology has conducted field surveys this year 

 in Inyo and Mono counties, extreme eastern 

 California. As usual the birds have receiv- 

 ed a large share of attention, and much new 

 information has been accumulated in regard 

 to mode of occurrence and life habits. Coo- 

 per Club members who participated in this 

 work are: Joseph Dixon, Alfred C. Shelton, 

 J. Grinnell, Halsted G. White and Tracy I. 

 Storer. 



Mr. J. G. Tyler, author of Avifauna Num- 

 ber 9, Some Birds of the Fresno District, 

 California, has enlarged his field of study 

 to take in the whole San Joaquin Valley. 

 He is now working towards a fairly exhaus- 

 tive treatise upon the "Birds of the San Joa- 

 quin Valley" intended ultimately to be pub- 

 lished in book form. Regional studies of 

 this nature are going far towards making- 

 knowledge of birds a widely popular posses- 

 sion. 



MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 



NORTHERN DIVISION 



August. — The regular meeting of the 

 Northern Division of the Cooper Ornitholog- 

 ical Club was held at the Museum of Verte- 

 brate Zoology on August 16, at 8 p. m. 

 President Evermann was in the chair, and 

 the following members and friends were 

 present: Messrs. Carriger, Grinnell, De 

 Groot, Lastreto, Squires and Swarth; 

 Mesdames Allen, Culver, Ferguson, Grin- 

 nell, Kelley, Kibbe, Meade, Schlesinger, 

 Swarth and Wythe; visitors: Miss Beatty, 



