Sept., 1906 | 
NOTES AND NEWS 
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THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine 
of Western Ornitholog'y 
Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornithologi- 
cal Club of California 
JOSEPH GRINNELL, Editor, - Pasadena. 
H. T. CLIFTON, Business Manager, Box 404, Pasadena 
WILLIAM L. FINLEY 
ROBT. E. SNODGRASS 
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Associate Editors 
Pasadena, California: Published Sept. 17, 1906 
August at Camp Agassiz extending liis ac- 
quaintance among the birds of the Tahoe 
region. 
Mr. P. B. Peabody wishes to extend cordial 
thanks to those who responded to his appeal 
for information in our May issue. He reports 
“Nesting Ways” to be growing apace, but there 
are still many species on his query list to learn 
about. Mr. Peabody has removed to Blue 
'Rapids, Kansas, and will be glad to have cor- 
respondents address him there hereafter. 
Mr. Edward R. Warren, of Colorado .Springs, 
spent the latter half of August camera-hunting 
in the Yellowstone National Park. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Thru the energetic efforts of Miss Bertha 
Chapman the Bryant collection of birds has 
been secured by popular subscription for the 
public schools of Oakland. There were 420 
splendidly mounted specimens, together with a 
number of study skins and eggs. The price 
paid was not given out, but we venture to sur- 
mise it to have been in the near neighborhood 
of one thousand dollars. 
Messrs. Finley and Bohlman returned early 
ill July to their homes in Portland, Oregon. 
Altlio their season's work in southern Cali- 
fornia was considerably shortened owing to the 
accident to Finley, they were successful in ob- 
taining what is probably the rarest series of 
bird photos ever captured. We are not at lib- 
erty to make further announcements now, but 
will have more satisfactory information for our 
readers in our next issue. Watch for the No- 
vember Condor! 
Col. L. L. Hawkins, but recently become a 
member of the Cooper Club, died at Portland, 
Oregon, March n, 1906. He was a life-long 
lover of nature, but had never restricted him- 
self to any one field. His chief pleasure was 
derived from contributing to the interest of 
others in natural history. With that end in 
view he had founded a valuable museum in 
Portland. 
Mr. Milton S. Ray recently interviewed one 
of the lighthouse keepers just in from the 
Farallones. He reports the April earthquake 
to have been severe on the Islands, the effect 
being to somewhat disturb the location of the 
bird rookeries. (See Emerson, Condor VI, 
May 1904, pp. 61-68.) At Great Murre Cave 
much of the over-hanging rock fell down rais- 
ing the floor many feet and changing its 
whole aspect. The cave under Eight Tower 
Peak has been closed up by the falling debris; 
and an immense amount of rock fell down at 
West End. The light tower was practically 
unharmed, however. 
I11 The Journal of the Maine Ornithological 
Society for June appears a photograph remark- 
able even now in the day of so much clever 
bird photography. It is a profile view of a 
song sparrow in the act of delivering “his 
most rollicking melody.” Two things observ- 
able are that the tongue is entirely hidden altlio 
the mandibles are widely apart, and that the 
throat is not prodigiously distended. These 
points should be kept in mind by some of our 
artists. 
Thru! Mr. John E. Thayer we learn that 
W. W. Brown has returned safely from a 
partially successful visit to Guadalupe Island, 
Lower California. He failed to find the cara- 
cara, towliee, and wren ( Thryomanes ), peculiar 
to the island. This arouses the fear that these 
species are gone forever. 
Mr. O. W. Howard spent the past summer in 
the Mt. Whitney region of the Sierras, where 
he obtained many rare nests in situ. These 
were displayed at the August Southern Division 
meeting. Many were the comments in praise 
of the energy and ingenuity required to accom- 
plish such perfect results. The nests were 
transported home practically unruffled, together 
with a large portion of the immediate surround- 
ings. Such a collection is vastly more in- 
structive than the accumulation of eggs alone, 
or of these with the bare nests, often mere frag- 
ments. 
Mr. J. Eugene Law spent the greater part of Mr. Edmund Heller recently returned from 
