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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIII 
THE CONDOR 
A.n Illustrated Magazine 
of Western OrnitKolog'y 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL. Editor. Berkeley. C^lif. 
J. EVGENE LAW I „ . „ 
W. LEE CHAMBERS I Managers 
HARRY S. SWARTH 
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G. WILLETT 
Hollywood, California: Published May 22, 1911 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
Mr, Ediiinntl Heller has embarked upon a 
third expedition to British East Africa, in 
pursuit of big game. This time he is one of a 
party etpiipped with a string of cow ponies, a 
pack of bear dogs, and a moving picture 
machine. It wouhl appear that an extreme of 
exciting adventure will be one pretty certain 
outcome of such a combination! However, 
Mr. Heller is the naturalist of the party, and 
will collect and prepare as scientific specimens, 
as much of the spoils as possible for the 
National IMnsenm. lie will particularly try 
to obtain material supplementary to the Roose- 
velt collections, which are the basis of an ex- 
tended scientific report in course of preparation 
hy Mr. Heller. 
Mr. Ered M. Dille, a pioneer Colorado natur- 
alist, has been appointed special warden by 
the U. S. Biological Survey, to investigate or- 
nithological conditions in the vicinity of the 
Minidoka and Deer Elat reclamation projects 
in Idaho, and the Cold Spring project in 
Oregon. He assumes his new duties at once. 
2klr. W. L. Burnett, who has long been iden- 
tified with biological work in Colorado, has 
recently been appointed Curator of the Museum 
of the State Agricultural College, at Et. Col- 
lins, Colorado. His new position will enable 
him to devote his entire time to biological 
work, and the college is to be congratulated 
upon securing the services of a man so emi- 
nently ecpiipped for the work he is to under- 
take. Mr. Burnett assumes his new position 
June 1st. 
A few of the older members of the Cooper 
Club may be interested to know that Mr. H. B. 
Bailey, one of the founders of the Nnttall 
Club, American Ornithologists’ Union, and 
Linnaean Society, has become an active worker 
in the ranks of ornithologists and oologists 
once more. Since his collection of eggs went 
into the Museum of Natural History in New 
York some years ago, he has done little active 
work along these lines. Having lately re- 
tired from business he has taken up his old 
hobbies and has joined forces with his son in a 
new Bailey Collection and Library. He left 
some time ago for Elorida on an extensive trip 
after specimens. 
!Mr. Alex Wetmore, who has been at the 
Kansas State University for the past 3 'ear, has 
left Lawrence, Kansas, for Seattle, Washing- 
ton, where he is to join Mr. A. C. Bent and 
Rollo Beck in an extended collecting trip 
through the Aleutian Islands. * Mr. Wetmore 
joins the party as a representative of the Bio- 
logical Snri'e}'. 
IMr. E. R. Warren left his home at Colorado 
Springs about the middle of !May, for an ex- 
tensive collecting trip through central and 
northern Colorado. Mr. Warren is thoronghl}’ 
equipped with a sea-worthy prairie schooner, 
and expects to be in the field until fall. 
According to onr critic (T. S. P. ) in April 
Bird-Lore it would appear that the illustrations 
in The Condor have improved greatly since 
we dropped simplified spelling ! 
PUBLICATIONS RPIVIEWIH) 
The Home-life of the Spoonbill, the 
Stork and Some Herons, by Bentley Bee.- 
TH.LM, F. Z. S. [Witherby & Co., London, 
1910, pp. i-viii, 1-47, pll. 1-,31. Price 6 s. net.] 
Four species are treated, the .Spoonliill, White 
vStork, Common Heron and Purple Heron. 
They were studied and photographed from 
blinds placed in marsh or tree lop, as the case 
might be, and with what would appear to he 
most gratifying success. The photographs are 
beautiful and instructive, convejdng much in- 
formation of a sort that would be difficult to 
obtain from the best written accounts, while 
the accompanjdng text is couched in a most 
attractive style, and, though but a compara- 
tively limited space is given to each species, 
contains a great deal of very interesting life 
history. The description of the actions of the 
j'onng Purple Plerons, deserting their nests in 
the tree-tops at the approach of danger, and 
taking refuge in the tangles of underbrush on 
the groiin{l, each returning to his own home 
when the danger has passed, is of great inter- 
est: additional traits of this species as well as 
j- Associa.te Editors 
