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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. SNODGRASS, WILLIAM L. FINLEY, 
Associate Editors 
Palo Alto, California: Published Nov. 212, 1905 
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Subscriptions should be sent to the Business Manager; 
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Entered Jan. 16, 1903. at Palo Alto, Cal., as second-class 
matter. 
NOTES AND NEWS 
The editor regrets that he will be unable to 
continue longer in his present capacity. With 
the January issue Mr. Joseph Grinnell will pre- 
side in the editorial sanctum, and all manu- 
scripts for publication, papers for review, and 
exchanges should be sent to him at Pasadena, 
California. Subscriptions, club dues, and ad- 
vertisements should be addressed to H. T. Cr.iF- 
ton, Box 404, Pasadena, California. 
Thus The Condor will migrate southward, 
and in the Land of Sunshine we hope to see it 
wax greater as the club grows, and steadily en- 
large its sphere of usefulness. We desire to 
take this opportunity to thank the many con- 
tributors who have cooperated in making the 
magazine what it has been during the past three 
years. We trust that in the future they will 
continue to respond to the importunities of the 
insatiable editor. Mr. Grinnell brings to his 
task both enthusiasm and equipment so that 
our readers may look to see further improve- 
ment in the magazine, provided they respond 
from the financial side — and respond promptly ! 
We are in receipt of the following communi- 
cation: 
To the Editor: 
We are rightfully proud of the high place 
The Condor occupies among the scientific 
bird magazines of the country and feel sincere- 
ly grateful to the men who by their untiring 
efforts have placed it where it is. Now I 
would ask if we are not strong enough as a 
Club to turn to a work that is sadly needed, the 
work of stimulating the proper interest in our 
native birds. There are thousands of young 
people wishing to know the birds they see 
about them, and who can help them as 
efficiently as such an organization as the 
Cooper Ornithological Club ? This work is 
certainly not beneath our notice; in fact the 
people of our State have the right to ask this 
help from us as the only well organized Club of 
the kind with a magazine of its own. Surely 
we as a Club can undertake no greater work 
than to bring the people of our State in closer 
touch with our own wild birds. May we not 
look to the Club to add a new department to 
The Condor with the opening of the 
new year that shall be distinctly for the help 
of young naturalists? Our young people are 
subscribing for eastern bird papers that are of 
no practical value to them because we here in 
California are doing nothing for them. The 
call for such a department is strong and now 
that The Condor has an established reputa- 
tion as a scientific bird magazine are we not 
strong enough to increase its good work and 
answer this call of the many who would know 
the familiar birds of our forests and gardens ? 
Bertha Chapman, 
Oakland, Cal. Director of Nature Study. 
We heartily endorse Miss Chapman's plan for 
a new department which shall bring the young 
people of the State into closer touch with our 
native birds. Such a department could also be 
made of great use to the increasing number of 
teachers of nature study who now have prac- 
tically nothing to fall back upon. As everyone 
knows the eastern magazines devoted to this 
purpose are almost useless, being particularly 
confusing to the beginner on account of the 
different avifaunas of the two sections of the 
country. We trust that the way may be clear 
to make this addition to The Condor in the 
near future. 
Mr. Richard C. McGregor, who has returned 
from the Philippines for a visit, has kindly re- 
lieved us of a disagreeable task by compiling 
the index which is printed with this issue. At 
the November meeting Mr. McGregor gave an 
interesting account of “The Distribution of 
Philippine Birds, ” illustrated by a number of 
specimens. 
Messrs. Finley and Bold man have promised 
to continue during 1906 their articles and pic- 
tures on western bird life. These have been a 
most attractive and valuable feature of The 
Condor during the past two years, and the 
articles for the coming year promise to surpass 
even the best of their previous efforts. Mr. 
Finley now devotes most of his time to this 
work, and we feel singularly fortunate in be- 
ing able to publish such able articles and illus- 
trations fresh from the field. It is a rare op- 
portunity. 
It is only fair to state that the unusually 
large number of illustrations in this issue is 
made possible by the financial cooperation of 
several members of the Northern Division. 
With our present income we cannot regularly 
afford so many in each issue. 
The annual dinner will probably be held at 
'Bait’s Cafe, Powell and Market streets, San 
Francisco, January 13 at 8 P. M. A short busi- 
ness meeting for election of officers will be held 
at 7:30 sharp, in the Council Room of the Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences. 
In the Proceedings of the Biological Society 
of Washington xvm, 225, Oct. 17, Mr. J. H. 
Riley notes that Picus torquatus Wilson, 1811, 
