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Redheads vary from 1% lbs. to 1% lbs.; Canvasbacks from 1% lbs. to 2% lbs. 
Very few of these are killed here. 
Gadwalls (scarce) weigh around 1% lbs. 
Spoonbills vary from 1 lb. to 1% lbs. 
Green-winged Teal early in the season weig 
here drop to % lbs. 
None of these figures include cripples, since these are often abnormally emacia- 
ted.—AtLtpo Lropotp, Secretary New Mexico Game Protective Association, Albuquerque, 
New Merzico, February 1, 1919. 
%4, lbs. The few stragglers that winter 
The Summer Tanager in California.—On March 10 of this year I took a specimen 
of the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) in the Arroyo Seco between Los Angeles and 
Pasadena, California. The specimen was submitted to the members of the Southern 
Division of the Cooper Club and was also critically examined by Messrs. Grinnell and 
Swarth of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. All agree upon the specific 
identity of the bird, although Grinnell and Swarth find slight divergences from the typical 
subspecies, P. r. rubra, and suggest that an extralimital race may be represented. 
The specimen, an immature male, has been deposited in the California 
not P. r. cooperi. 
It is 
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, where the writer considers that all state records should 
be preserved. 
The bird was quite shy and could not be approached within range. 
Evidence of its having been in captivity is 
repetition of the call note was it secured. 
Only through 
lacking and the wariness would pcint to its being an untamed bird, though the possibility 
must be conceded. 
It may interest those collectors who think lightly of the collecting pistol as not 
sufficiently business-like, to know that this specimen and one other state record (Lou- 
isiana Water-thrush) would not have been secured except for such an arm.—LoyYeE MILLER, 
State Normal School, Los Angeles, California, April 10, 1919. 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
The Cooper Club membership roster ap- 
pearing in this issue of THE CONDOR shows 
that the Club is now made up of 6 Honorary 
members and 585 Active members. We are 
indebted to Mr. J. Eugene Law for compil- 
ing this annual roster, as has been the case 
now for several years passed. Corrections 
or changes should continue to be reported 
to Mr. Law, whose address is now the Mu- 
seum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of 
California, Berkeley, he having recently 
- joined the staff of that institution as Cura- 
tor in Osteology. 
The many friends of Major Allan Brooks 
will rejoice in his recent safe return home 
after nearly five years service, with the 
Canadian army in France, almost from the 
very start of the war. One can imagine his 
delight to be once again among the forests 
and mountains of his own land, British Co- 
lumbia. Accomplished as artist, accurate as 
observer, and skillful as collector, Brooks 
does highest credit to the science of ornith- 
ology and to the organizations to which he 
belongs, which promote this science. 
Believing that a better knowledge of wild 
life will bring about better conservation of 
it, and that when people are on their sum- 
mer vacations they are most responsive to 
appeal on this score, the California Fish and 
Game Commission backed by the Nature 
Study League will institute this coming 
summer a series of lectures and nature 
study field trips designed to stimulate in- 
terest in the proper conservation of natural - 
resources. The Tahoe region has been se- 
lected for the work this year and lectures 
and field trips which will be open to the 
public without charge will be offered at six 
different resorts during the month of July. 
Illustrated lectures by Dr. H. C. Bryant on 
the game birds, song birds, mammals, and 
fishes will furnish evening entertainment, 
and early morning trips afield will give va- 
caticnists an introduction to mountain wild 
life. The motto of these classes will be: 
“Learn to read a roadside as one reads a 
book.” Special excursions for children will 
_be conducted. 
