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THE CONDOR 
Vol. XIV 
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 March 15, 1914 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
The Business Managers of the Cooper Cluh, 
Messrs. Chambers and Law, have submitted 
to the two Divisions their financial statement 
for the year 1913. This statement includes 
itemized receipts and expenditures on both 
Avifauna and Condor accounts, an inventory 
of Cooper Club property, and a final appeal for 
continued and increased support on the part of 
all interested in the growth of western orni- 
thology. The following abbreviation from 
this report will give an idea of the amount of 
work which now devolves upon our Business 
Managers, but which is essential to handling 
the Club’s publications as they are now ap- 
pearing. 
Balance in Bank January 2, 1913 $ 181.54 
Dues received during 1913 844.09 
Subscriptions during 1913 224.36 
Advertisements 46.00 
Donations 238.69 
Sale of Avifaunas 52.75 
Sale of back Condors 83.01 
Total Receipts $1670.44 
Printing of Condor $ 646.25 
Engraver’s bill 133.14 
Northern Division expenses 21.75 
Southern Division expenses 27.98 
On account conservation of game.... 37.03 
Postage 84.55 
Purchase of back Condors 11.50 
On Avifauna account 12.56 
Sundry expenses 47.32 
Total Expenditures $1022.08 
Balance on hand, January 2, 1914....$ 648.36 
From this deduct $291.44, in Avifauna ac- 
count, which leaves $356.92 ; then add $105.35 
for 1912 bills paid during 1913, making $462.27, 
the total amount in Condor fund. From this 
deduct the amount of advance dues and sub- 
scriptions ($96.10), -and 1913 bills payable 
($278.69), and there is left a net balance, or 
"profit” on the Condor, of $87.48. 
The prmting of volume XV of the Condor 
cost $60.73 more than volume XIV, while 
$3.68 less was spent upon cuts. An edition 
of 1000 copies of each issue of the Condor 
was printed. Avifauna number 10, Swarth’s 
“Distributional List of Arizona Birds”, is now 
in press. 
COMMUNICATION 
REVIEWS AND JUST CRITICISM 
Editor The Condor: 
I am a far-off, perhaps unheard of — so to 
speak — member of the Cooper Club ; but it is 
my Club, and to me it means more than any 
of the other organizations of its kind of which 
I am a member — all because eight of the best 
years of my life were spent in the Land of 
the Golden West. Just what my rights as 
a member of the Cooper Club may be to 
criticise the reviews in its Organ, The Con- 
dor, 1 do not stop to ask ; but as a member of 
Society, in general, and especially as a member 
of that small portion of supposed Goodfellows, 
banded together under the name of Nature 
Students, I have the moral right to ask re- 
garding that which, to me, seems undesirable, 
and, especially so, when that same is printed 
matter which goes forth to the world and be- 
comes a living record. 
Does that portion of the review regarding 
Bruce Horsfall’s plate of the Catbird, signed 
W . L. D., page 236, volume 15, November 
issue of The Condor, sound like brotherly 
love? Has it any of that milk of human kind- 
ness, as such, making The Condor a medium 
of good fellowship? 
I know neither Mr. Horsfall nor W. L. D., 
only as they have come on record in print; 
but even if all that is said be true, could it not 
have been said in a kind way? Why not a 
plain, honest statement, even though cruel m 
its frankness, instead of a flippant thrust carry- 
ing with it a personal tang? Why could it not 
have been a good clean review, such as the 
one given of The Birds of Virginia? For that 
was, indeed, most necessary and just. 
There is no stimulus to my life’s work like 
study and communion with nature. From the 
fundamentals to the last integral parts of de- 
sign, my profession is a logical sequence along 
lines of evolution, based on the primal laws of 
creation. With this knowledge, I have learn- 
ed to feel that all who turn to nature seriously, 
do, of necessity, set themselves apart from the 
proletaire, are bigger and better in thought, 
more susceptible of sympathy, no matter what 
their walk in life. Then, if so, is Mr. Hors- 
fall one to be encouraged in the right way, by 
