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THE CONDOR 



Vol. XX 



THE CONDOR 



A Mag'azine 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 May 22, 1918 



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Address W. Lee Chambers, Business • Manager, 

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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 



Since the appearance in the March issue 

 of The Condob of the list of Cooper Club 

 members who have entered into military 

 service, we have been advised of the fol- 

 lowing names to be added to this roster: 



Ernest M. Anderson, Esquimalt, British 

 Columbia, Canada. 



Dr. Thomas D. Burleigh, Y. M. C. A. Army 

 and Navy Ass'n., in France. 



Maunsell S. Crosby, Captain, Camp A. L. 

 Mills, New York. 



F. B. Eastman, Major, Camp Grant, Rock- 

 ford, 111. 



P. H. Gosse, Captain, 22d Army, British 

 Expeditionary Force, in France. 



P. J. Hartman, Engineers, American Ex- 

 peditionary Force, in France. 



Miss Heloise Meyer, Red Cross, in France. 



Walton I. Mitchell, Captain, Camp Funs- 

 ton, Kansas. 



Carl S. Mueller. 



J. Howard Richey. 



Oscar F. Schaefer, Engineers (Forest), in 

 France. 



H. L. Stoddard. 



Casey A. Wood, Major, Office Surg. Gen., 

 Washington, D. C. 



Howard Wright, Navy. 



Word comes that Major (now Colonel, B. 

 E. F.) Allan Brooks found time and oppor- 

 tunity the past winter to make some bird 

 drawings. These appealed to the British 

 public to the extent that several sold for ten 

 pounds and upwards, the proceeds going to 

 the Red Cross. We are glad of the assur- 

 ance that Brooks's brush has lost none of 

 its talent. 



During the latter part of March, a party 

 of California naturalists paid a flying vis# 

 to several of the Santa Barbara group of 

 Islands, with results ornithological that will 

 be reported upon in the next issue of The 

 Condor. The new Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion's launch "Albacore" provided a com- 

 fortable and rapid means of transit. Cooper 

 Club men who participated in the outing 

 were Messrs. Evermann, Law, Mailliard, and 

 Van Denburgh. 



The annual Cooper Club Business Mana- 

 ger's report, for the year ending January 

 1, 1918, as drawn up by Messrs. Chambers 

 and Law, has been filed with each of the 

 two Divisions of the Club. The outstanding 

 feature of the report is the increased cost 

 of printing, and this has necessitated a not- 

 able reduction in the size of the annual vol- 

 ume of The Condor. At the same time, in 

 spite of extraordinary financial conditions, 

 there has been an increase in subscribers to 

 The Condor as well as in Cooper Club mem- 

 bership, a very healthy state of affairs 

 which we can in all fairness credit only 

 to the energetic efforts of our always loyal 

 officers. 



We are in receipt of an announcement of 

 the organization of the Woodland Heights 

 Museum of Analytical Oology, with head- 

 quarters at present in the home of Mr. Mil- 

 ton S. Ray, San Francisco. As indicated in 

 the name chosen, the accumulation and 

 study of birds' eggs is to engage the inter- 

 ests of those identified with the enterprise. 

 Among the names listed in the directorate 

 and membership are: Rose C. Ray, Captain 

 Eugene A. Wiegand, John Deas, Milton S. 

 Ray, Dr. Sterling Bunnell, William R. Ray, 

 A. J. Campbell, Leverett M. Loomis, Henry 

 W. Carriger, Chase Littlejohn, and Oluf J. 

 Heinemann. 



Mr. J. Grinnell is working on a second 

 installment of his Bibliography of Califor- 

 nia Ornithology. Anyone with knowledge 

 of titles previous to 1908 that were omitted 

 from the Bibliography already published 

 (Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 5) will confer 

 a favor by informing him in regard to them. 



