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intended or implied. Hence the personal name 
is best written in the lorm in which it usually 
stands in dedication, namely, without the pos- 
sessive. Thh CondOk is taking no initiative 
in this matter as the form has been used for 
many years by the National Board of Geo- 
graphic Names, by the Divisions of Forestry 
and Biological Survey of the U. S. Agricultural 
Department, and by independent writers. 
This form we ueli^ve is deii.i,;ed to become 
generally used. 
2, A single i will be used in the genitive 
s’ligular in scientific specific and subspec.fic 
names; e.g., Zonjirichia leiccjphrys nultalli, 
not nutiallii. in other words tlie genitive 
will be formed by ad..ing a single i to the 
unchanged name of the person in whose honor 
the species is named. It appears to us that 
the double i subserves so little to euphoii}’ in 
comparison with the labor and inconvenience 
of memorizing its inconsistencies, that the 
time has arrived when working ornithologists 
were shed of the nuisance. It is a well kno.vn 
fact that numberless cases o.cur wheie the 
same name has been written with a single i, 
and in a different combination with a douule i. 
Fhalcenopiiliis nutiallii appears to us as euphon- 
ious as Zonotriclna 1 . nultalli. As Dr. Allen 
has said, there is no rule by whicu one may 
memorize the occurrence of the two spellings, 
and the time and tried patience involved 111 
editing manuscripts has led us to bring the 
subject before our contributors. We will not 
enter into any philological discussion of the 
question, fut may remark that we believe the 
‘single-i-ists’ ha\e as good an argument to 
offer as the ‘doiible-i-ists. We emphasize con- 
venience and unijunnily which are really the 
most important matters. This likewise has 
been in use in The Condor the past year. 
3. Trivial or common names of animals and 
plants, occurring in the text will hereafter be 
printed in lower case, except of course where a 
capital letter is obviously necessary, as in 
personal or geographic qualifying words; e.g., 
California towhee. Harris woodpecker, but 
spurred towhee. Generic names that have be- 
come popularly accepted trivial names, as 
junco, will likewise begin with a small letter. 
This rule is rather widely followed now in pub- 
lications, and the added neatness given to a 
page is marked. In closing we might add that 
in annotated bird lists the trivial name is writ- 
ten essentially in an independent subjective 
form, and hence bears capitals; e.g. 
Pipilo maculatus megalonyx. Spurred 
Towhee. 
The Condor publishes, as it believes, the 
first half-tone photograph yet to appear of the 
famed wingless cormorant. Thus "the world 
do move" and the camera has portrayed to 
American ornithologisis this strange bird 
which sports in the treacherous surf of the 
Galapagos. 
We regret the delay in mailing the index to 
Volume III, which is unavoidable. Mr. Rich- 
ard C. McGregor, who has been compiling the 
index, issue by issue during the past year, 
found himself located in the Orient at the time 
Our last number was issued. This necessita.ed 
the dela}’ consequent upon the time reciuired 
for the mail to travel both ways. The index 
will appear with our March number. 
The Condor wishes its readers a Happy 
New Year and greets them with a change of 
cover and new cover design, typifying the 
land of the setting sun and its lordiy condor. 
The design is by Mr. Walter K. Fisher. 
ID/ 'iHi lUi 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Pe.\rson, T. Gilbert. Stories of Bird Life, 
B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., Richmond, Va. jip. 
1-236 ami numerous plates, 60 cents. 
Ridgwav, Robert. The Birdsof North and 
Middle America. Part I. Family Fringiliidae 
— 'Ilie P'lnclies. (Bulletin of the U S. N. M. 
No. 30, igoi. 
RoiiisoN, Wirt and Richmond, C. W. An 
Annotated Fist of Birds Collected in the vicin- 
ity of Da Guaira, Venezuela. (Proc. U. vS. N. 
M., XXIV, pp. 163-178, j 
American Ornithology, I, No. 12, Dec. 1501. 
II, No I, Jan. 1902. 
Auk, Tne, XiX, No. I, Jan. igo2’. 
Bird- Lore, III, No. 6, Nov. -Dec. igoi. 
Bird & Nature, X, Nos. 4, 5. Nov., Dec., 
1901. 
Bulletin No po, U. S. Nat. Museum. 
Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, 
III, No. 4. Oct, 1901. 
Plaine Sportsman, Nos. 99, 100, Nov., Dec. 
1901. 
Nature Study, II, No. 7, Dec. 1901. 
Ohio Naturalist, II, Nos. i, 2. Nov. Dec., 
igoi. 
Oologist, The XVIII, Nos. II, 12. Nov. -Dec., 
Ormthologisches Jahrbuch, XII, No. 6, Nov.- 
Dec. igoi. 
Osprey, The, V, Nos. g, 10. Sept., Oct., igoi. 
Our Animal f'riends, XXIX, Nos. 4, 5. Dec. 
1901, Jan., 1902. 
Our Dumb Animals, XXXIV, Nos. 6, 7. 
Nov., Dec 1901. 
Flanl World, IV, Nos. 10, ii. Oct., 
Nov., 1901, 
Fopular Science XXXV, No. 12, Dec. igoi. 
XXXVI, No. I, Jan. 1902. 
Recreation, XV, Nos. 5, 6. Nov, Dec, igoi. 
West American Scientist, XII, Nos. 6, 7. 
Nov., Dec., 1901. 
