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THE CONDOR 
I VOL. V 
THE CONDOI^ 
An Fllustrated Magazine of Western 
Ornitliology 
Published Bi-monHily by the. Cooper Ornil-bolo§i 
<;al (dub of (California 
WAL'l'ER. K. FlSllEli, Editor, Palo Alto 
JtdSEPtl (Hi INt^ELF^, Business Manager and 
Assistant Editor, Pasadena 
FPANK S. DAtiCiE'Fr, Assoeiate Editor 
Palo Alto, (California: Published Nov. Mi, lOOCi 
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Subscriptions should be sent to the Busine.ss Manager; 
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RDITORIAI, NOTE.S 
Mr. H. B. Kaeditig has been obliged to re- 
sign the secretarysliip of the Club, having been 
called to Mexico for an indefinite period. The 
club can ill afford to lose such an active officer, 
and we hope Mr. Kaeding will soon be among 
ns again. Mr C. S. Thompson, of Stanford 
University, has been appointed secretary for 
the remainder of this year. All communica- 
tions to Mr. Kaeding should be sent to 820 
Scott St., San Francisco. 
If we may correctlj' judge from numerous 
letters, our objections to the bond clause of the 
A. O. U. Bird Law ('published in the .Septem- 
ber issue) must have voiced a rather wide- 
spread feeling among active field workers. 
Nearly everyone from whom we have heard 
seems agreed that the bonds do not accomplish 
enough good to pay for the inconvenience of 
procuring them, while evidence is forthcoming 
which tends to show that they may do harm. 
As a matter of history it is perhaps worth 
recording that when the A. O. U. Model Law 
was introduced into the California legislature 
on February 18, 1903 as Senate Bill No. 649, by 
Senator Lukens, not only was the bond feature 
stricken out, but likewise the license fee. 
At the November session of the Club the 
following nominations were made for offi- 
cers for 1903: for President, Henry Reed 
Taylor; .Senior Vice-president, R. B. Moran; 
Junior Vice-president, Farle Mulliken; Business 
Manager, J. Grinnell; Secretary, Charles S. 
Thompson. 
The annual meeting will be held at the resi- 
dence of the President, Mr. H. R. Taylor, 
1375 Regent St. , Alameda, on the second Sat- 
urda}' in January All members within reach 
should make a point to attend. The annual 
meeting is always more given over to a social 
good time, than to jiapers, and the coming ses- 
sion offers a splendid chance for everyone to be- 
come acquainted. Remember the time and place, 
and do not plead a “previous engagement!” 
The twenty-first congress of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union will be held at Phila- 
delphia, beginning on the evening of Monday, 
November 16, 1903, and extending to the 19th. 
The index which is bound into the present 
issue is the work of Mr. Grinnell. We wish 
also to thank Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes for the 
original of the vignette which appears on the 
title page. 
This is the last issue of volume five. It is a 
fact worth recording that subscriptions for 
volume six, 1904, are now due. We merely 
whi.sper it as a hint, for onr subscribers and 
friends are wise. It is likewise a truism that 
the more subscribers we have the better maga- 
zine we can offer. Promptness in remember- 
ing the New Year obligation is often as gratif}'- 
ing to us as new subscribers. 
Minutes of Northern Division Meeting 
September. The September meeting was 
held at the residence of R. B. Moran, in Palo 
Alto on the evening of the twelfth; W. K. 
Fisher, acting chairman, in the chair; 16 mem- 
bers and six visitors present. The following 
were elected to active membership: F. F. L. 
Beal, Washington, D. C.; Gertrude Forrester, 
Round Mt., Cal., Foster C. Wright, Los An- 
geles. The following persons were proposed 
for election: T. S. Palmer, Frank M. Chap- 
man and G. L. Kaeding. The resignations of 
A. M. Shields and F. K. Taylor were accepted. 
The following amendments to the constitution 
were proposed, passed and referred to the 
Southern Division for action. 
Art. Ill, Section 5 to read, “Any person who 
shall, in the opinion of the Club, have ren- 
derecl valuable or distinguished services in the 
advancement of ornithology, shall be eligible 
to Honorary Membership in this Club.” 
Art. H, Section i to read “This Cluli shall 
consist of two co-ordinate bodies known as the 
Northern and Southern Divisions respectively, 
the geographical limits of the Southern Divis- 
ion to be that portion of the State of California 
lying south of the 35th parallel of North Lati- 
tude.” 
The program was one of unusual interest. 
John M. Willard talked on the “Hiding of 
Young Birds”; J. O. Snyder on “Fishing 
With Cormorants in Japan”; R. B. Moran on 
“The Nesting Habits of the Black Oyster- 
catcher”; and H. B. Kaeding on “Hawking in 
Korea.” 
After refreshments and a social session the 
Club adjourned to meet at Berkeley, Novem- 
ber 7. H. B. K.A.EDING, Secretary. 
Dr. C. W. Richmond notes, in a recent num- 
ber of the Proceedings of the Biological Society 
of Washington, that Co 7 'vus americanus Audu- 
bon, 1834, must give place to Corvus brachyr- 
hvnchos Brehm, 1822. Scolecopha<>;us Swainson, 
1831, preoccupied, becomes Euphagiis Cassin, 
1866. 
