Jan., 1904 I 
THE CONDOR 
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PROF. F. E. L. BEAL 
Few eastern orn thologists are better known to Californians than Prof. Beal, 
who has spent much time with us, studying in the field the relations of our com- 
mon birds to agriculture and horticulture. Prof. Beal’s name has long held fore- 
most rank among the economic ornithologists of the country, and it is safe to say 
his papers on economic ornithology have been more potent in infiuencing farm- 
ers and fruit growers, than a legion of state laws. Under the auspices of the Bio- 
logical Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, with a corps of able a.ssist- 
ants, he is rapidly and successfully impressing upon the minds of our practical 
class the relation of birds to the matter of dollars and cents. 
We are much indebted to Mr. W. Otto Emerson for the opportunity of pre- 
senting this excellent portrait. 
The Status of the Southern California Cactus Wren 
BV HAKKV S. SWAKTH 
I N a recent review of the cactus wrens of tlie United States Dr. .Means describes 
a new desert race under the name of Heleodytes bniiincicapill ns an f /tony i and 
ascribes the birds of the coast region of southern California to the subspecies 
bryanti. Believing him to be mistaken in both statements I have been to some 
pains to bring together a series of cactus wrens from tlie regions inhabited by the 
two suppo.sed varieties; and what with those in my own collection, together with 
specimens loaned me by different members of the Cooper Club I have had at my 
disposal, in all, forty-eight skins, representing the following localities: 22 from 
southern California (vSan Fernando, Pasadena, San Bernardino, and San Gorgonoi 
