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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
THE CONDOR 
A. Mag'azine of 
Western OrnitHology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley. California 
HARRY S. SWARTH. Associate Editor 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
With this, tile last issue of the year, The 
Condor concludes its fotirteenth volume. Only 
one preceding volume (1908) has numbered 
more pages. As for quality of contents we 
leave the reader to judge. The point in mind 
is to suggest to all Cooper Club members as 
well as subscribers that their regular cash 
contributions are now payable. Remember 
that early remittances save the Business Man- 
agers from much clerical labor. And this 
means that commeusnrately more attention 
can be given to ways and means for further 
growth. 
As for the Editors, their dream is to se- 
cure for the coming year the same high stand- 
ard of articles that liave predominated in the 
present volume. We hope to be able to print 
illustrated life histories of as high merit as 
Rockwell’s Barr Lake series. There are yet 
birds of unknown nesting habits which should 
not be left for Ray alone to exploit! Authori- 
tative faunal lists in moderate proportion are 
of value as basis for the distributionist’s 
studies. Above all, we invite “Field and 
Study" notes. Here we get variety of topic 
and concise treatment. The “Field and Study” 
department is read by more people twice over 
than any other part of our magazine. This 
statement is based upon assurances from 
many sources. Reviews, communications, and 
matter for news notes all go to make up the 
Editorial stock-in-trade. Practically all the 
material necessarj' to make a Condor must 
come from the contributor at large. There- 
fore let those Cooper Club members fortu- 
nately situated in respect to such resources re- 
member the Editors early and often. 
Sanely administered conservation of natural 
reson.rces is a mneh-to-be-desired consumma- 
tion. This cannot, however, be brought to a 
satisfactory realization until popular opinion 
is educated still farther beyond the primi- 
tive notion of “everything for today.” Cer- 
tain phases of the bird-life of the west are 
disappearing at an alarming rate, far faster 
than is consequent upon the settlement of the 
country. The proper restriction of hunting 
privileges must he legalized at once, if cer 
tain of our shore birds and ducks are to be 
saved at all. We would call serious atten- 
tion to these subjects as discussed in subse- 
quent columns of the present issue. The 
(Tlub is fortunate in having sO energetic an 
exponent of conservation as W. P. Taylor, 
chairman of the Northern Division commit- 
tee. It will require the combined efforts of 
very many of like industry and enthusiasm to 
offset the influence of the gunner, when it 
comes to securing state legislation of an ef- 
fective sort. This we must obtain imincdiate- 
Iv. or be compelled to witness the complete 
extermination of many of our native game 
birds. 
COMMUNICATIONS 
THE BIRDS OF COEOR.VI'O 
Editor The Condor: 
Perhaps you will kindly allow me a few 
words in reply to ]\lr. W. W. Cooke’s re- 
view of the "Present .Status of the Colorado 
Check-list of Birds.” I should like, however, 
first to thank you and all other of my Ameri- 
can ornithological friends for your kind re- 
ception of my recently published work on the 
Birds of Colorado. The time I spent in Colo- 
rado was comparatively short, so that I was 
very much dependent on my friends and cor- 
respondents for local observations ; but 1 had 
the advantage of the very fine collection of 
Colorado birds made by Mr. C. E. Aiken on 
which to base my descriptions, and in this 
way was able I hope to bring to light a good 
many new facts and at the same time to pre- 
pare a work which will always be useful to 
the Colorado bird-lover. 
Mr. Cooke enumerates first of all thir- 
teen species included by me but not by him 
in his most recent list of Colorado birds 
1909, p. 400) ; of these he admits six as valid 
and rejects seven. In regard to these: 
Plialacuopiilus nntlalU iiitidus. This spe 
cics 1 only retained in deference to the A. O. 
U. Check-List ; I agree with Mr Cooke that 
it is probably only a color phase of P. nuttalli. 
Otocoris alpesfris enthymia. 1 regard this 
species as a very doubtful one. I would not 
have recognized it had I been certain of the 
A. O. U. Committee’s final decision in the 
matter; but the new edition of the Check-List 
did not appear till some time after my man- 
uscript was corrected, and I confess I over- 
looked the fact that Oberholser’s subspecies 
was omitted. 
