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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XVIII 
THE CONDOR 
A Magazine of 
W estern Ornithology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor 
HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 
J. EUGENE LAW I „ „ 
W. LEE CHAMBERS / BuS,ne “ Mana * ers 
Hollywood, California: Published Sept. 18, 1916 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
Our business managers ask the indul- 
gence of the ornithological public for a 
slight reduction in size of volume eighteen. 
The financial depression of the last three 
years is making inroads on our list of sub- 
scribers and members, many telling us 
frankly that they are having to cut their 
expenses to actual necessities. For this 
reason, inasmuch as The Condor has been 
just about self-supporting the last few 
years, it seems good business policy to 
keep within our financial limits, and avoid 
begging. Time was when The Condor re- 
quired the help of liberal friends to make 
ends meet, but now that we have formed 
the habit of paying our own way we want 
to continue to do so. Lots of new sub- 
scribers and members are coming in, but 
not quite as many as are having to drop 
out. Many assure us that with return of 
normal conditions they will again be on 
our list, and will want the volumes missed. 
It is good news — that of the final ratifica- 
tion of the United States-Canadian treaty, 
whereby practically all species of birds mi- 
gratory between the two countries will be 
protected. This ratification took place on 
August 29, at the conclusion of negotiations 
which have been going on for at least two 
years. Efforts of a large number of earnest 
conservationists have been concerned in 
this achievement. 
Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey has spent 
the past summer in observing water birds 
on their nesting grounds in the vicinity of 
Devils Lake, North Dakota. The method of 
field study applied by Mrs. Bailey gives re- 
sults of which Condor readers are already 
pleasantly aware. We need merely refer to 
her vivid narrative from the Texas border, 
in the present issue. 
Mr. Curtis Wright, Jr., has presented his 
collection of birds’ eggs to the California 
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. The col- 
lection consists of personally taken sets ob- 
tained chiefly in the early 90’s in the vicin- 
ity of Carthage, Missouri, and Taylorsville, 
Illinois. 
The files of data in the United States 
Biological Survey concerning the migration 
and distribution of North American birds, 
and formerly in charge of Wells W. Cooke, 
have now been placed under the care of 
Mr. Harry C. Oberholser. 
Copies of the portfolio of Fuertes plates 
from Eaton’s “Birds of New York” can be 
secured for one dollar each from John M. 
Clarke, Director State Museum, Albany, New 
York. Our readers will, of course, under- 
stand that this announcement is in no 
sense an advertisement. We believe that it 
is to their advantage to know of such an 
opportunity, which we ourselves have just 
embraced, to our own great satisfaction. 
Messrs. Harry S. Swarth, Joseph Dixon 
and Halstead G. White constitute a field 
party from the California Museum of Ver- 
tebrate Zoology which is studying the nat- 
ural history of a cross-section of the south- 
ern Sierra Nevada in the vicinity of Fresno. 
Mr. Stanley G. Jewett, until recently with 
the Oregon State Fish and Game Commis- 
sion, is now serving as Predatory Animal 
Inspector under the U. S. Biological Survey 
for the territory comprising Oregon and 
Washington. 
The work of the U. S. Biological Survey 
in studying and mapping the fauna of Ari- 
zona is continuing this year, with Mr. E. A. 
Goldman in charge, and Messrs. H. H. T. 
Jackson and W. P. Taylor as assistants. 
