:May, 1914 
EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
147 
THE CONDOR 
A Mag'azine of 
"Western OrnitKolog'y 
Published Bi-Monthly by the 
Cooper Ornithological Club 
J. GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley, CsLlifornia 
HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor 
J. EVGENE LAW 1 „ . 
W. LEE CHAMBERS f Managers 
Hollywood, California: Publisiiod May 15, 1914 
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EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 
The latest etymological authority, Web- 
ster’s New International Dictionary (G. & C. 
Meriam Co., 1913, page 1814) defines the 
word resident as follows: “Dwelling, or hav- 
ing an abode, in a place for a continued 
length of time; . . . opposed to nonres- 
ident; ... 2. Of birds, not migratory; 
nonmigratory.” In essence the word means 
sit, or stay, and is allied to sedentary, as op- 
posed to migratory. Birds are either resi- 
dent or migratory ; if they migrate they can 
not be resident; hence such an incongruity 
as winter resident is impossible! We ad- 
mit that the term summer visitant, for a 
migratory species breeding in a given local- 
ity, is open to criticism; but summer resi- 
dent is worse. Perhaps some one can sug- 
gest a correct term for this seasonal cate- 
gory, which will be acceptable to all of us. 
See Dawson, antea, page 119. Why do not 
the terms transient or sporadic visitant 
serve in all cases where the birds are not 
regular winter or summer visitants? 
The one thing that perturbs the Editor 
more than any others of his worries is re- 
ceipt of a manuscript from some well-mean- 
ing contributor, the appearance of which 
corroborates his accompanying note that he 
has “dashed down a few lines for our maga- 
zine”, or that he “submits some space-filler” 
which can be “consigned to the waste-basket 
if not needed”. It is presumed that The 
Condor prints only matter of scientific 
value or of popularly educative function. 
The magazine’s pages had better be left 
blank than devoted to mere “space-filler”, 
as such. The Editor welcomes and solicits 
well-considered, well-composed articles, 
whether of ten lines or ten pages. 
The Cooper Club’s membership, as shown 
in the roster concluding the present issue 
of The Condor, numbered on April 1st, 1914, 
six honorary and 433 active members. 
Dr. Barton W. Evermann, for many years 
connected with the Bureau of Fisheries at 
Washington, has been appointed Director of 
the Museum of the California Academy of 
Sciences. Dr. Evermann is a Cooper Club 
member, and his name is associated with 
the development of ornithology in Califor- 
nia during the early 80’s. From 1881 to 1886 
seven articles were contributed from his 
pen to the Ornithologist and Oologist and to 
Th e AuTc. 
Mr. J. Eugene Law spent three weeks in 
the latter part of February and early March 
in the vicinity of Silver City, New Mexico, 
where a large part of his time was occu- 
pied in bird study and collecting. 
CONVENTION OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLO- 
GI.STS IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1915 
It will be good news to members of the 
Cooper Ornithological Club that at the an- 
nual meeting of the American Ornitholo- 
gists’ Union, held last month in Washing- 
ton, it was decided to hold the next annual 
meeting in San Francisco in May, 1915. As 
to how many members will respond it is, 
of course, impossible at this early date to 
state, but that a considerable number will 
avail themselves of the opportunity to at- 
tend the convention, and the Panama Paci- 
fic Exposition also, is reasonably certain. 
To a large degree it is up to the Cooper 
Ornithological Club to make the visit of our 
friends from the eastern states as pleasant 
and interesting as possible. One way to do 
this will be to hold a meeting jointly with 
the A. O. U., and to make it a record one. 
Many will remember the special joint meet- 
ing held here in 1903, which was such a suc- 
cess, and during which some friendships 
were made that have kept green ever since. 
Undoubtedly many members of the South- 
ern Division of the C. O. C. can arrange to 
come up here to see the exposition at the 
time of holding this joint meeting. Every 
one must get to work and boost this propo- 
sition and make it a memorable success, 
for it is the chance of our young lives! 
Few of our eastern cousins realize the 
great diversity in climatic, and hence in 
faunal and floral, conditions in California, 
and the great changes thereby brought 
about in our bird-life within comparatively 
short distances. We should plan so as to 
make this phase of our avifaunal conditions 
on the Pacific Coast of especial interest to 
our visitors. We must show them that 
