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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVII 
THE CONDOR 
A Magazine of 
Western Ornithology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GR1NNELL, Editor 
HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 
J. EUGENE LAW 
W. LEE CHAMBERS 
| Business Managers 
Hollywood, California: Published Oct. 10, 1915 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
The lateness of the present issue is due to 
the necessity of carrying on the editorial 
functions of proof-reading, etc., from the 
field. A certain corner of Mono County, 
California, by the way very interesting 
ornithologically, is some six days distant by 
mail from San Jose, in the same state, where 
The Condor is printed. 
The National Association of Fish and 
Game Commissioners met in San Francisco 
early in September, with several Cooper Club 
men interested in game conservation taking 
prominent part. The educational method of 
enforcing game-laws, a policy recently adopt- 
ed by the California Commission, was the 
theme of the paper spoken of as the most 
important one of the session. Much of the 
success of the convention was due to the 
energetic efforts of Mr. Ernest Schaeffle, 
Secretary of the California Fish and Game 
Commission. 
The magazine Blue-bird, published by Dr. 
Eugene Swope, at Cincinnati, Ohio, is run- 
ning a series of very creditable colored plates 
of birds’ eggs, evidently reproduced from 
autochrome photographs. Further possibili- 
ties in this line are thereby suggested, so 
that with perfecting of methods, especially 
as to the speed of autochrome plates, we may 
expect before long color-photos of living 
birds. 
As noted on page 212, the Cooper Club’s 
list of Honorary members has been in- 
creased by the addition of the name of 
Henry W. Henshaw, now Chief of the Bu- 
reau of Biological Survey, and at one time 
active as a field ornithologist in many parts 
of the west. It will be noted that the small 
number of elections to this class of mem- 
bership denotes special distinction, — a sort 
of emeritus recognition of creditable work in 
western ornithology in earlier days when 
workers were few and the stimulus of fel- 
lowship perhaps less in evidence than now 
as a spur to effort. 
The Northern Division of the Cooper 
Ornithological Club was addressed at its Sep- 
tember meeting in Berkeley by Dr. William 
T. Hornaday, who spoke on the question: 
“Shall we increase our big game on a food- 
supply basis?” 
Ewen S. Cameron, well known for his 
many excellent articles on Montana bird-life, 
died on May 25, 1915, at Pasadena, Califor- 
nia. Cameron was born in Scotland, Decem- 
ber 19, 1854, and latterly carried on the busi- 
ness of cattle-ranching for many years in 
the vicinity of Marsh, Montana. While thus 
interested, all his spare time was devoted to 
ornithology, in which pursuit his wife aided 
through her successful work with the cam- 
era. Scores of articles under the authorship 
of “E. S. Cameron”, creditably describing 
different phases of the bird-life of Montana 
and Dakota, have appeared in various maga- 
zines, notably The Ibis, The Auk, Recreation, 
Country Life , and Field (English). 
COMMUNICATIONS 
FAIR PLAY FOR THE COLLECTOR: 
AN OPEN LETTER 
Dr. Harold C. Bryant, 
Game Expert, in Charge Education, Pub- 
licity and Research, State Fish and 
Game Commission, Berkeley, Califor- 
nia; 
My dear Sir: 
It is with great pleasure that I learn of 
your advancement in the service of the Cal- 
ifornia Fish and Game Commission; and I 
am informed that your new duties will in- 
clude that of issuing permits to scientific 
collectors. You are to be congratulated 
upon these new honors, so well deserved; 
and we who collect congratulate ourselves 
upon having to deal with a man of broad 
and well-balanced sympathies, as well as of 
scientific training and field experience. 
Your working chief, Mr. Ernest Schaeffle, 
was so good as to propose that I offer you 
a few suggestions regarding the execution 
of these new duties; and you will receive in 
good part, I am sure, from so sincere a well- 
