Sept, 1911 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
169 
THE CONDOR 
An lll-ustrated Mag'azine 
of 'Western OrnitKolog'y 
Published Bi»Monlhly by the 
Cooper Ornilholojical Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor. Berkeley. Calif. 
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ItDITORIAL NOTES AND NPAVS 
During tlie past snnniier the University of 
California Alnsenni of Vertebrate Zoolog}' has 
hail two expeditions in the field, both in the 
state of California. This in addition to the 
party which, earlier in the season (March 6 to 
June 6) traversed the length of the San Joacpiin 
Valley. Some of the ornithological results ob- 
tained by the latter (primarily a iiiaiiniial col- 
lecting expedition) are published in the present, 
and in the last nuniber of The Condor. 
Miss Annie M. Alexander and Miss Louise 
Kellogg, with assistants, spent three months 
in the high iiionntains of Siskiyou County, col- 
lecting birds and inaiiinials, in continuance of 
work begun by them in Trinity County, during 
January and February. The series of speci- 
mens gathered includes some species new to the 
(Museum collections, and others but scantily 
represented; while one species of bird was se- 
cured new to the state of California. 
The special point of enquiry toward which 
the work has been directed is to ascertain the 
relationships of the fauna of the region with 
that of Mount Shasta on the one hand, and the 
Humboldt Bay region on the other. At the 
latter point the Museum had collectors working 
during the previous summer (1910) ; the Mount 
Shasta fauna has been tiie subject of exhaustive 
study liy Dr. C. Hart Merriam. 
J. (Iriniiell and W. P. Taylor, with T. I. .Stor- 
er, II. A. Carr, and N. .Stern as assistants, have 
been exploring the mountains lietween Bakers- 
field and Mount Whitney since the middle of 
June. In two parties they traveled up different 
branches of the Kern River, finally meeting in 
the high niouiitaiiis, and are to come out by 
way of Owen’s Valley, on the eastern side of 
the range. The expedition has been highly 
successful ill every way. At the last report re- 
ceived there were but two species of mammals 
known to occur in the region which had not 
been secured, and the bird collection is almost 
as comprehensive, at least as regards summer 
residents. The results will lie of peculiar in- 
terest, both in relation to the collections already 
amassed from the southern California mountain 
ranges, and to those from the .San Joaquin Valley. 
California ornithologists will rejoice at the 
news that 3.1r. F. .S. Daggett has returned to 
this state, and that there is a possibility of his 
making his home here once more. The Cooper 
Club will profit greatly by the renewal of his 
active participation in the affairs of the organi- 
zation. 
Dr. N. Dearborn, of the Biological .Survey, 
has been spending part of the summer in Cali- 
fornia, in pursuance of the work of that Bureau, 
visiting the forest reserves of .Santa Barliara, 
Los Angeles, and .San Bernardino counties. 
1 1 is particular sliuly is the determination of 
the extent to which the smaller rodents are 
detrimental to the planting operations of the 
P'orestry Department, and devising ways of re- 
ducing their numliers where necessary. 
Mr. Malcolm P. Anderson, who for some years 
past has been collecting birds and mammals in 
Asia for the British Museum, has recently re- 
turned to his home at Menlo Park, California. 
His work took hiiii to the more remote islands 
of the Japanese archipelago, and also to the. 
wilder parts of western China, and to Thibet. 
PUBLICATIONS REVllJWEl) 
A Revision of the B'orms of the Hairy 
Woodpecker [Dryobates villosus [Linnaeus]). 
By Harry C. Oberhouser. [ "- Proc. U. .S. 
Nat. Mils., vol. 40, 1911, pp. .S95-621, pl.70(map). 
Published June 1911.] As a result of the 
careful examination of a very large series of 
these woodpeckers ( 1070 specimens) Mr. Ober- 
holser increases the fourteen forms heretofore 
recognized, to twenty, three of the newly de- 
scriVied subspecies occurring north of Mexico, 
in the territory covered by the A. (>. U. Check 
List. Of the remaining three, two are from 
(Mexico and one from Nicaragua. 
Dryobates v. hyloscopus suffers the most in 
this readjustment, as it supplies the material 
for all three of the new North American forms — 
jy. V. orins, type from Onincy, California, oc- 
curring in eastern Washington and Oregon, 
south to central California, D. v. Icucothorectis, 
in central New Mexico, northern Arizona, and 
southern Utah, and D. v. icastus, a Mexican 
form ranging north to extreme southeastern 
Arizona and south we.stern New Mexico. The 
