CONTENTS 
Characteristic Birds of the Dakota Prairies. I. In the Open Grassland 
* .Florence Merriam Bailey 173 
A Walking Eagle from Rancho la Brea (with one photo by H. 8. Swarth) 
Loye Holmes Miller 179 
Estimated Average Age of the Herring Gull John Treadwell Nichols 181 
A Late Nesting Record for the California Woodpecker 
Harriet Williams Myers 183 
Description of a New Race of Savannah Sparrow and Suggestions on Some 
California Birds Louis B. Bishop, M. D. 185 
A Partial List of the Summer Resident Land Birds of Monterey County, 
California (with map and five photos) 
J. R. Pemberton and H. W. Garriger 189 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY: 
Range of the California Clapper Rail 0. P. Silliman 201 
Bird-study Out-of-doors in European Schools (with one photo) 
G. M. Goethe 201 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Southern California H. 8. Swarth 203 
Supposed New Records for Santa Cruz Island W. Leon Dawson 203 
A Foe of Johnson Grass Joseph Dixon 204 
Fork-tailed Petrels Delayed by Storm 0. P. Silliman 204 
The House Finch Again D. I. Shepardson 205 
Late Nesting of the Townsend Solitaire .H. G. Bryant 205 
A Notable Occurrence of Pacific Divers W. Leon Dawson 205 
Late Migration of the Cedar Waxwing. 0. P. Silliman 205 
Western Gull and Arctic Tern: Corrections of Records H. S. Swarth 206 
Bluebird Nesting in Low Country D. I. Shepardson 206 
California Pine Grosbeak in Mono County, and Other Notes 
A. Brazier Howell 206 
A New Bird for the Pacific Slope of Southern California 
Wright M. Pierce 207 
Limicoline Laggards at Santa Barbara W. Leon Dawson 207 
Another Mexican Ground Dove for California, and Other Notes 
O. P. Silliman 207 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 208 
COMMUNICATIONS: Fair Play for the Collector: An Open Letter 
W. Leon Dawson 208 
MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS 212 
Entered as second-class matter February, 1908, at the post-office at Eos Angeles (Hollywood 
Station), California; under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 
Issued from the Office of The Condor, First National Bank Building, Hollywood, California 
MEETINGS OF THE COOPER ORNITHOEOGICAE CEUB 
Southern Division: At the Museum of History, Science, and Art, 
Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Time of meeting, 8 p. m., the last Thurs- 
day of every month. Take south-bound car from town ; on Spring Street 
the car marked “University”, on Hill Street the car marked “Vermont 
and Georgia”. Get off at Vermont Avenue and Thirty -ninth Street. 
Walk two blocks east to Exposition Park. The Museum is the building 
with the large dome. 
Northern Division: At the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Uni- 
versity of California, Berkeley. Time of meeting, 8 p. m., the third 
Thursday of every month. Take any train or car to University Campus. 
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a large corrugated iron building 
situated on the south side of the campus immediately north of the foot- 
ball bleachers. 
