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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XV 
postponed at least until the next general elec- 
tion, in November, 1914, when the people of 
California will be called upon to vote directly 
upon the issue. 
]\leanwhile, through the enactment of the 
Federal migratory bird law, California is 
likely to secure in no small part what it was 
hoped to gain through state legislation. The 
details of the Federal regulations have been 
in the hands of a most competent committee, 
consisting of T. S. Palmer, A. K. Fisher and 
W. W. Cooke, of the United States Biological 
Survey. The regulations as finally announced 
in a Circular of the Survey will go into effect 
October 1, 1913. 
As regards California birds the following 
restrictions will now become operative. A 
five-year closed season on : Band-tailed 
Pigeon ; all Cranes ; Swans ; all Rails ; Cur- 
lew and all shorebirds except Black-bellied 
and Golden Plover, Wilson Snipe and both 
species of Yellowdegs. The open season on 
ducks and geese will extend from October 15 
to January 16, thus cutting the shooting sea- 
son much shorter at the spring end, as com- 
pared w'ith the provisions of the State law 
The open season for Black-bellied and Golden 
Plover, Wilson Snipe and both Yellow-legs 
will be from October 15 to December 16, The 
Coot and Florida Gallinule will be subject to 
an open season from September 1 to Decem- 
ber 1. The latter two species thus become 
recognized as game birds. 
These federal regulations are of the ut- 
most importance as a step toward retarding 
the spectacular diminution of our game re- 
sources. But w'e must not rest here. Much 
wider accomplishment is necessary, especially 
in the line of public education, if the stock of 
game birds on the Pacific Coast is to be pre- 
served in the face of the present high rate of 
immigration and consequent enormously in- 
creased toll levied upon all of our natural 
resources. 
FIerbErt Brown, one of the few resident 
ornithologists of Arizona, died at his home in 
I'ucson, May 12, 1913. He was 65 years old 
at the time of his death, having been born in 
Winchester, Virginia, jMarch 6, 1848. He was 
twice married and left a widow and one son. 
In 1883 he located in Tucson where he 
made bis home throughout most of the re- 
mainder of his life. During the early years 
of his residence in Arizona he lived a more 
or less adventurous life, making long pros- 
Fig. ,51. Herbert Brown, hoeding Eef Owe; Photo taken by Wieeiam L. 
P'iNEEY AT Tucson, Arizona, in the Spring of 1910 
