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THE 
CONDOR 
VOL. VII 
THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine of Western 
Ornithology 
Published Bi-monthly by the Cooper Ornithologi- 
cal Club of California 
WALTER K. FISHER, Editor, Palo Alto 
JOSEPH GRINNELL, Business Manager and 
Associate Editor, Pasadena 
R. E. SNOIXiRASS, WILLIAM L. FINLEY, 
Associate Editors 
Palo Alto, California: Published May 13 , 1905 
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EDITORIAL NOTES 
A TTENTION is called to Mr. Mailliard’s re- 
quest for information concerning the win- 
ter distribution of the western robin (p.82). 
Letters have already been sent to a number of 
members and the notes are published on another 
page. Since the robin is known to everyone, 
all readers, who can shed any light on the pro- 
blem of the movement of robins during the 
past winter, should send in their notes. Nega- 
tive information is valuable. Please state 
whether robins are usually present in your lo- 
cality and whether common or rare; also include 
any other information concerning unusual birds 
during the past winter, or absence of ordinarily 
common species. The following letter from 
Prof. Ritter bears directly upon this matter, so 
that further remarks are unnecessary. 
Berkeley, Cal., March 20, 1905. 
Dear Mr. Maieliard: 
Since the meeting at Miss Head’s Saturday 
evening 1 have been thinking over the matter 
raised by Dr. Stejneger’s paper, and it has oc- 
curred to me in a quite positive way that the 
Cooper Club has just now an admirable oppor- 
tunity to take in hand an investigation that 
would be exactly in line with Stejneger’s sug- 
gestions. I refer to the question of the behav- 
ior of the winter birds this year, and the bear- 
ing of this on the broader problem of bird mi- 
gration. If it is really true, as it seems to be, 
that the western robin, varied thrush, pipit, and 
some other birds, have not come to this region 
this winter because the conditions have not 
been such as to induce them to, it is a genuine- 
ly interesting fact, and ought to be carefully 
looked into. Have the birds remained on their 
nesting grounds, or have they gone to some other 
locality than that which they are accustomed 
to visit in winter? In either case they would 
appear to have departed from their usual habit, 
and if so, this is a fact of prime importance 
from the point of view of the migratory in- 
stinct. I would suggest that two lines of in- 
quiry he taken up at once. In the first place 
that letters be addressed to all members of the 
Club in localities ordinarily frequented by the 
birds in winter, to find whether they have been 
as scarce at all these as they have been in the 
San Francisco Bay region. In the second place, 
that somebody be sent, if possible, to the 
mountains where the western robin, for in- 
stance, breeds, to ascertain if it has remained 
there through the winter, and if so, what the 
peculiar conditions have been. 
Very truly yours, 
W. E. Ritter. 
O LR series of portraits is continued in the 
present issue with likenesses of Count T. 
Salvadori, Dr. Anton Reichetiow, Dr. Otto 
Finsch, and Mr.H. E. Dresser. 
Among Count Tommaso Salvadori’s works 
may be noted the following: Prodromus Or- 
nithologiae Papuasiae et Moluccarum, Ornito- 
logia delle Papuasia e Molluche (3 vols. and ap- 
pendix), Uccelli di Borneo (first published in 
Annali Mus. Civ. Genova, 1874-75); and of the 
British Museum Catalogues; vol. XX, Catalogue 
of the Psittaci, or Parrots; XXI, Catalogue of 
the Columbse or Pigeons; XXVII, Catalogue of 
the Clienomorphse (Palemedeie, Plicenicopteri, 
Anseres), Crypturi, and Ratitae. In 1887 ap- 
peared Elenco degli Uccelli Italiani. He has 
named between 500 and 600 genera and species, 
of which Brachyrhainphus a' avert is one. 
Dr. Anton Reichenow, editor of the Journal 
f'uer Ornithologie and the Ornithologisches 
Munatsbericht , has published many papers in 
these journals, and elsewhere. The Conspectus 
Psittacorum appeared in the former. Die 
Voegel Deutseli-Oest-Afrikas, quarto, was pub- 
lished in 1894, and Die Voegel Afrikas , two vol- 
umes and part of the third of which have al- 
ready been published, is not yet completed. 
Dr. Otto Finsch has been an extensive trav- 
eler. Hevisited the United States, July — Decem- 
ber 1872, northwest Siberia, March - November, 
1876, .South Sea Islands, April 1879 — November 
1882 and June 1884 — August 1885, and New 
Guinea, to which he made six trips in 1884 and 
’85. In 1899 he published his Systematische 
Uebersicht der Ergebnisse seiner Reisen and 
Schriftstellerisclien Thaetigkeit (1859-1899), 
which lists 384 titles covering a wide range of 
subjects besides ornithology. He has written 
Die Papageien (2 vols. i867-’68), Index ad Caro- 
li Luciani Bonaparte Conspectus Generum 
Avium (1865), Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpoly- 
nesiens: Ornithologie der Viti - Samoa - und 
Tonga-Inseln (with Hartlaub, 1867), Die Voegel 
Oest-Afrikas (with Hartlaub 1870), besides num- 
erous other longer and shorter papers in Notes 
from the Leyden Museum, P. Z. S., Ibis, Jour, 
f. Ornithologie. etc. Dr. F’insch has described 
14 genera and 155 species of birds, and 
has a genus and 41 species in zoology and 
botany named in his honor. 
Mr. Henry Eeles Dresser’s best known works 
are: History of the Birds of Europe (8 vols., 
text and 8 of plates), Monograph of the Bee- 
eaters, Monograph of the Rollers, List of the 
Birds of Europe, Reprint of Eversmann’s 
‘Addenda’ (3 parts), besides numerous shorter 
papers. In The Ibis , 1865 and 1866, was pub- 
lished Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas. 
