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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVII 
THE CONDOR 
A Magazine of 
"Western Ornithology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor 
HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 
J. EUGENE LAW "I „ . 
W. LEE CHAMBERS } Managers 
Hollywood, California: Published Nov. 30, 1915 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
According 1 to Avifauna No. 11, California 
has 541 species and subspecies of birds. It 
may be of interest to compare this figure 
with those for other states. Myron H. 
Swenk (in Nebraska Blue Book, 1915, page 
835) has assembled the following data. 
There is as yet no report for Texas, but that 
state probably follows California as a close 
second. Nebraska comes third with 418 spe- 
cies (Swenk, 1915); then, west of the Mis- 
sippi, Colorado with 397 (Cooke, 1911), 
Kansas with 379 (Bunker, 1913), Missouri 
with 383 (Widmann, 1907), Iowa with 354 
(R. M. Anderson, 1907), and Arkansas with 
255 (A. H. Howell, 1911). East of the Mis- 
sissippi the largest list seems to be that of 
New York with 411 (Eaton, 1910-14), while 
Maine has 327 (Knight, 1908), Connecticut 
329 (Sage and Bishop, 1913), West Virginia 
246 (Brooke, 1913), Michigan 326 (W. B. 
Barrows, 1912), Illinois and Wisconsin, 
combined, 398 (Cory, 1909), and Alabama 
275 (Oberholser, 1909). Westwardly, 
Washington has 372 species (Dawson and 
Bowles, 1909) and Arizona 362 (Swarth, 
1914). 
Mr. W. C. Bradbury, a retired capitalist 
of Denver, has been devoting most of his 
time the past three years to assembling a 
collection of birds’ eggs for the Colorado 
Museum of Natural History, of which insti- 
tution he is a trustee. His efforts have re- 
sulted in a representation of some 600 dif- 
ferent species, with many fine series, occu- 
pying twenty-eight large show-cases. As 
can be readily inferred new things are now 
coming in very slowly. 
William Alanson Bryan, Professor in the 
College of Hawaii, has just gotten out a 
book entitled "Natural History of Hawaii.” 
Of the five “sections,” one is devoted to the 
animal life of the archipelago, and of this 
section a consideration of its remarkable 
bird-life naturally occupies the larger part. 
Mr. Bryan is, of course, especially well 
equipped to handle this part of his subject 
with authority and in entertaining style. 
We have to record the sad news of the 
death of Gaylord K. Snyder, active member 
of the Cooper Ornithological Club, who 
passed away at his home in Los Angeles, 
August 28, 1915. Mr. Snyder was a young 
man of most pleasing personality, a frequent 
attendant at Southern Division meetings, 
where his presence will be greatly missed, 
and an occasional contributor to The Con- 
dor. In his untimely death the Club has 
sustained a distinct loss. 
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 
Little Bird Blue | By William L. and 
Irene Finley | with illustrations by | R. 
Bruce Horsfall | and from photographs j 
[vignette] | Boston and New York j Hough- 
ton Mifflin Company ] The Riverside Press 
Cambridge | 1915 j ; pp. 1-60. ($0.75 net.) 
The offering of the above title is a charm- 
ing little volume which may be read aloud 
to the children as a bedtime story; and 
then around the circle it must go for each 
little auditor to look long and lovingly at 
little Bird Blue perched on Phoebe Kath- 
erine’s head or William’s careful fingers, — 
and suddenly we realize that it is long past 
the children’s bedtime! 
The story deals with three months in the 
life of a bluebird, from the time he was 
found orphaned and nearly dead in the nest 
box under the eaves until he answered the 
call of his race one autumn day. 
The recital of Bird Blue’s rearing inter- 
ests the children greatly and brings to them 
many bits of wisdom regarding birds and 
bird conservation; while the photographs 
reproduced in the book are a perfect delight 
to child-lovers and bird-lovers alike. The 
drawings are for the most part good. How- 
ever, we refuse to accept the “sharp-fanged 
creature” on page 12 as a prowling cat! It 
