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THE CONDOR 
Vo i,. XII 
THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine 
of "Western Ornithology 
Publish! Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornithologi- 
cal Club of California. 
JOSEPH GRINNELL, Editor. Berkeley. Ca.1. 
J. EVGENE LAW. Business Manager, Hollywood. Cal. 
W. LEE CHAMBERS, Business Manager, Santa 
Monica, Cab 
HARRY S. SWARTH 
ROBERT B. ROCKWELL 
Hollywood, California: Publisht July 15, 1910 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
This issue contains the “Directory of Mem- 
bers of the Cooper Ornithological Club”, an 
annual feature of our magazine which we are 
repeatedly assured is a very useful one. It 
will be noted that the list is much larger than 
ever before, including 302 names. We would 
be glad of information as to any errors or 
changes in addresses, so that the secretary’s 
card index may be kept up to date. 
In a paper concerning the “Introduction of 
the Hungarian Partridge into the United States ’’ 
(=separate from Yearbook of U. S. Dept. Agr. 
for 1909, pp. 249-258, pi. xiv) Mr. Henry 
Oldys of the Biological .Survey concludes with 
the following significant remarks: “Not only 
is acclimatization of an exotic species difficult, 
but it may, if successful, lead to unexpected re- 
sults:” the bird may become a nuisance to agri- 
culturists and it may crowd out our native speci- 
es. “Hence it would seem wise to devote less 
energy and money to the establishment of 
this and other exotic species and give more 
attention to the restoration and mainten- 
ance of our native game birds.” We heartily 
agree with this last suggestion and would re- 
spectfully recommend it to the consideration of 
our zealous State Pish and Game Commission- 
ers. 
Our thanks are due Mr. H. S. Swarth for as- 
suming the entire work of getting out the last 
two issues of our magazine, during the time 
the regular editor was absent afield. Mr. 
Swarth is spending the summer in the north- 
ern part of Vancouver Island where he is a 
member of Miss Alexander’s party which is 
making collections there for the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology of the University of Cali- 
fornia. 
Mr. H. W. Carriger spent the first two weeks 
of June in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe. He and 
Mr. M. S. Ray, who is devoting a larger part of 
the early summer to the same region, were 
successful in finding some extremely rare 
birds’ nests. We are not at liberty to an- 
nounce what these finds were, any further 
than to remark that they are new for Califor- 
nia, and that the descriptions of them will ap- 
pear in due time in The Condor. 
We learn from the Auk that the long-promist 
new edition of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union Check-List of North American Birds will 
probably lie redy for distribution about the end 
of July. Altho it will differ somewhat in typog- 
rafy and in the character of the matter from 
previous editions, the arrangement and numer- 
ation will be the same. As most of the changes 
in nomenclature have been added in the num- 
erous Supplements issued since 1895, we are 
assured that there will in this respect be few 
surprizes. The geografical distribution of the 
species and subspecies have, however, been en- 
tirely rewritten and greatly amplified. Besides 
being given in greater detail and with more de- 
finitness, the new arrangement will show not . 
only the general range of the forms, but also 
the breeding and winter ranges, so far as these 
are at present known. This single feature has 
ment the expenditure of a vast amount of work 
on the part of those members of the Committee 
having this subject in charge. We are further 
informed that an abbreviated edition of the 
Check-List, consisting only of the English and 
technical names, numbered, is in preparation 
and will be issued at about the same time as 
the regular edition. Copies of both publica- 
tions may be obtained thru the Business Mana- 
ger of the Union, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 
134 West 71st Street, New York City. 
Bird-Lore has lately devoted no less than 64 
lines of its surplus space to rather shallow 
ridicule of The Condor for adopting simpli- 
fied spelling. The nature of these aspersions 
serves chiefly to advertize the astonishing ig- 
norance of its editor and “T. S. 1’.,” of the 
principles of a subject with which every edu- 
cated man in this day of economic advance 
ought to be familiar. The Editors of The 
Condor are not attempting to originate any 
new fad, as is implied, but are merely falling 
in line with a wide-spred movement which is 
essentially progressiv, and which is rapidly 
gaining ground because of its obvious merits . 
The extensive oological collections of F. M. 
Dille, of Denver, and G. II. Messenger, of 
Linden, Iowa, have been merged by their 
j- Associate Editors 
