Mar., 1906 | 
NOTES AND NEWS 
59 
THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine of Western 
Ornithology 
Published Bi-monthly by the Cooper Orni Biologi- 
cal Club of California 
JOSEPH GR.INNELL, Editor, Pasadena 
II. T. CLIFTON, Business Manager, 
Box 404, Pasadena 
WILLIAM L. FINLEY, liOB’T E. SNODGRASS, 
Associate Editors 
Santa Clara, California: Published Mar. 20, 1906 
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NOTES AND NEWS 
l'or the present all communications intended 
for the Northern Division, C. O. C., or for the 
Club at- Large, should he addressed to the care 
of Mr. Joseph Mailliard, 1S15 Vallejo St., San 
Francisco, and not to C. S. Thompson. 
Messrs. Finley and Bohlman are in southern 
California for the spring months to continue 
their work in bird photography. They are 
bending their energies to secure a life-series of 
the osprey, bald eagle and condor. A pair of 
condors is being watched in the locality where 
a young one was successfully raised last season. 
Several Cooper Club members are jealously 
guarding the secret, and woe betide the per- 
son who tries to “collect’’ either the egg or 
the birds ! 
Mr. Harry Lelande spent a week in early 
February at Calexico, in the Imperial Valley 
below Salton. He reports the region to he 
swarming with water birds, due to the overflow 
from the Colorado. 
Mr. Harold Gay spent the past summer and 
fall in Lower California looking after mining 
interests. While there he obtained the eggs of 
a number of rare birds, upon which he' has 
promised to base an article or two for The 
Condor. Mr. Gay met with Nelson and Gold- 
man in the San Pedro Martir region, and re- 
ports them to be having their usual success in 
securing valuable mammals, birds, reptiles, etc., 
for the Biological Survey. 
1 1 is with pleasure that we are privileged to 
announce the prospective return to California 
of Mr. Bradshaw H. .Swales, lately of Detroit, 
but for several years in the 90’s" one of our 
Southern Division, C. O. C., members. Mr. 
Swales has been doing much sound work with 
the birds of Michigan, and we are sorry that 
the Michigan Ornithological Club will lose so 
energetic a worker; but what is their loss, will 
be most emphatically our gain ! 
Mr. Bradford Torrey of Wellesley Hills, 
Mass., is spending the winter in southern Cali- 
fornia, having undertaken the journey for the 
sole purpose of extending his acquaintance 
among the birds. Thru the use of the field 
glass alone he is having remarkable success. 
By patient and persistent search he has located 
and studied such an elusive bird as the rufous- 
crowned sparrow, which but few of even our 
resident bird students have succeeded in de- 
tecting. Mr. Torrey is an accurate observer, 
and an entertaining writer as well, a combina- 
tion which is altogether rare. He is the author 
of several popular books on eastern birds. We 
have asked that he write up some of his im- 
pressions of western bird-life for a future issue 
of The Condor. 
The above is from a photograph of the silver 
loving cup presented by the Club to Walter K. 
Fisher as a token of appreciation for his ser- 
vices as editor of The Condor. The cup was 
designed by W. Otto Emerson and executed 
by vShreve & Co., San Francisco, and repre- 
sents a condor's egg-shell supported between 
two condors. The latter stand 60 inches 
high upon a silver base. The inscription reads: 
Walter K. Fisher 
In Remembrance 
from the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
1903-1905 
At the Annual Dinner of the Northern Divis- 
ion, January 13, 1906, Mr. Emerson made an 
appropriate presentation speech, which was re- 
sponded to feelingh- by Mr. Fisher. The 
entire incident was one to be long remembered 
with pleasure by all present. 
Mr. W. B. Judson reports finding a western 
