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THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine of Western 
Ornithology 
Published Bi-monthly by the Cooper.Orniiholo§i= 
eal Club of California 
JOSEPH GR.INNELL, Editor, Pasadena 
H. T. CLIFTON, Business Manager, 
Box 404, Pasadena 
WILLIAM L. FINLEY, WALTER. K. FISHER., 
Associate Editors 
Santa Clara, California: Published Jan. 20, 1906 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
Price in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and U. S. 
Colonies one dollar a year; single copies twenty-five cents. 
Price in all countries in the International Postal Union 
one dollar and a quarter a year. 
Subscriptions should be sent to the Business Manager; 
manuscripts and exchanges to the Editor. 
Entered Jail. 2, 1906, at Santa Clara, Cal., as second-class 
matter. 
NOTES AND NEWS 
Not since 1896 has there been an election 
to Honorary membership in the Cooper Orni- 
thological Club. As a result of the unanimous 
action of both Divisions, Mr. Robert Ridgwav, 
of Washington, has just been added to our 
Honorary roll. It has been the sense of every- 
one that the Club could in no better way ex- 
press its recognition and appreciation of Mr. 
Ridgway’s lifework in ornithology. 
Chas. A. N ace , of Santa Clara, has printed 
every issue of The Condor from the begin- 
ning. Nace’s shop was a small affair eight 
years ago; but it has grown into a large estab- 
lishment, provided with all the modern appli- 
ances to insure good work. Nace will continue 
to publish The Condor. 
Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes has issued a Game 
Calendar, composed of reproductions of paint- 
ings of American game birds. 
Mr. William Brewster’s extensive work on 
the birds of Cambridge, will soon be issued as 
a memoir of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. 
At the recent meeting of the American Or- 
nithologists' Union Mr. F. M. Chapman ex- 
hibited a new appliance for projecting images 
of solid objects, such as engravings, photo- 
graphs and mounted butterflies, onto a screen. 
The machine is said to work very successfully, 
reproducing color and irridescence faithfully. 
Dr. A. K. Fisher is spending a few weeks in 
California, and attended the Club’s Annual 
Dinner in San Francisco, January 13. 
Mr. F. H. Fowler is stationed at Yuma, 
Arizona, and is engaged in engineering work 
on the new government dam. 
Mr. F. A. Lucas since becoming director of 
the museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences has arranged numerous valuable 
comparative anatomy preparations and ex- 
hibits. 
Dr. D. S. Jordan and Mr. W. L. Finley were 
western members of the Club who attended the 
recent A. O. U. Congress in New York. Mr. 
Finley’s slides are described as being ex- 
ceptionally fine. 
Dr. A. K. Fisher and W. K. Fisher spent 
Christmas week ornithologizing at Monterey 
Bay, and at Alta, Placer County. 
Mr. H. B. Kaeding has recently returned 
from his Alaskan trip. 
The Academy of Sciences Expedition 011 the 
schooner “Academy” to the Galapagos Archi- 
pelago has been heard from several times and 
is having remarkably good success in all lines 
of work. 
The above is, we believe, the first likeness of 
our ex-editor, Walter K. Fisher, to appear in 
any magazine. Consequently we take pleasure 
in presenting it on this editorial page, where 
his straight-forward comments on current topics 
have so often appeared for the past three years. 
Mr. Fisher has distinguished himself by a gen- 
eral levelheadedness which has won respect 
from all parts of the ornithological world. 
Doubtless it is largely due to his success as 
editor of The Condor that Mr. Fisher has 
been recently elected to Fellowship in the 
American Ornithologists’ Union. 
We have lately received a prospectus of an 
ornithological .work to be known as “The 
Birds of Washington,” which, if successfully 
completed, will prove the most elaborate un- 
dertaking ever carried out in the West. Mr. 
William Leon Dawson, of Seattle, and Mr. J. 
H. Bowles of Tacoma, are behind the enter- 
prise, and we could have no better assurance 
