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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XV 
THE CONDOR 
A. Magazine of 
"Western OrnitHology 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor. Berkeley. California 
HARRY S. SWARTH. Associate Editor 
J. EUGENE LAW 1 _ . „ 
W. LEE CHAMBERS / Managers 
Hollywood, California: Published June 7, 1913 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
The July issue of The Condor will contain 
tiie annual Club Roster. It is important that 
accuracy be secured in addresses and in 
spelling of names. To this end it is desir- 
able that corrections in last year's Roster he 
reported as .soon as possible to Mr. H. S. 
Swarth. jMuseum of History, Science and 
Art, Los Angeles, California, who will have 
in charge the compilation of the new list. 
Ridgway’s new “Nomenclature of Colors,” 
reviewed in another column, meets our most 
sanguine expectations. B}' its use color nam- 
ing can be put upon an exact basis. Here- 
after all descriptions involving color terms 
should accord with the permanent standards 
here set. 
Messrs. J. Eugene Law and Allan Brooks 
spent the month of April on a collecting trip 
llirough Arizona. Five days were spent at 
Tucson, approximately three weeks in the 
Chiricahua Mountains at from live to nine 
thousand feet altitude, and a few days at 
Rodeo, New Mexico. About 300 bird-skins 
were obtained, — not a large number, but of 
that exciuisite make which characterizes the 
output of these careful collectors. After 
spending a few days in west-central Califor- 
nia Mr. Brooks left on May 10 for his 
home in British Columbia. 
Mr. Harold C. Bryant, well known for his 
contributions to economic ornithology, has 
joined the staff of the California Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology. As Assistant Curator of 
Birds, he will, in addition to a share of the 
routine work, undertake in collaboration with 
Mr. Grinnell a study of the game birds of 
California with special reference to the prob- 
lem of game conservation. 
Our fellow Club member Mr. Harold H. 
Bailey is about to publish a book upon the 
“Breeding Birds of Virginia.” There will be 
many illustrations, both figures and plates, 
and the text is designed to meet popular needs 
in a state which has hitherto lacked a local 
bird book. 
It is of interest to note the expanding 
careers of individuals whose early predilec- 
tions have been strongly in the line of bird 
study. A gratifying sequence of events pre- 
sents itself in the case of Mr. William L. 
Finley. At first an ardent and successful 
student of life histories, subsequently identi- 
fied with the Audubon movement, he has now 
become State Game Warden of Oregon. In 
this office Finley has been able to devise and 
put into practice methods of game conserva- 
tion which are in the first rank for efficiency. 
He has secured the confidence of the state 
legislature, so that an almost ideal set of 
laws are now in force, by which Oregon’s 
bird-life is rendered practically immune to 
many of the factors which have proven so 
fatal to the birds of many of the Eastern 
states. 
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 
Birds Codi.ected or Observed on the Ex- 
pedition OE THE AepINE CeUB OE CANADA TO 
Jasper Park, Yeei.owhead Pass, and Mount 
Robson Region. By J. PL RilEy. The Cana- 
dian Alpine Journal, Special Number; pub- 
lished by the Alpine Club of Canada ; Banff, 
Alberta; 1912 (reviewer’s copy received March 
19, 1913) ; 8 vo., pp. 1-97, 20 pis., 1 map; price 
one dollar. 
The expedition of which this report treats 
was undertaken conjointly by the Alpine Club 
of Canada and the Smithsonian Institution, 
N. Plollister and J. H. Riley being appointed 
from the United States National Museum to 
take part in the field work, and to report upon 
the resulting collections. The publication con- 
tains, besides the account of the birds (pp. 47- 
75), reports upon the mammals, by N. Hollis- 
ter, and the plants, by Paul C. Standley. 
Seventy-eight species of birds are listed. 
The two new subspecies named as a result of 
