Walter K. Fisher and Howard Robertson, Associate Editors . 
Chester Barlow, Editor and Business Manager. 
THE CONDOR 
A Progressive Bi-monthly Magazine of Ornithology. 
Published by the Cooper Ornithological Club op California. 
EDITOR’S OFFICE, 
Santa Clara, Cal.,jj ov# 29/01, 
My dear Mr. Brewster 
I appreciate very much the kind commendation of my Placer- 
ville list contained in your recent letter, more particularly since 
your wide experience afield enables you to properly criticise. I do not 
know that the list is of any particular importance, but I have the 
satisfaction of knowing that it is accurate and trust it may be the 
means of bringing more of our Westera workers to the region. That was 
one of the ideas which inspired the list. So I am only glad if it 
proved interesting to you. 
One point in your letter suggests mention; your wish that 
you might visit the West and incidentally these mountains. I wish that 
some day you might pay California a visit and meet our ornithologists 
and attend a Cooper Club meeting. We have quite a little ornithological 
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world of our own out here with the Club as its nucleus. You perhaps learn 
of our meetings and progress from time to time, but I wish it were possi¬ 
ble for you to drop in and feel the energetic and fraternal atmosphere 
which has for some months past pervaded the Club. 
Incidentally I may mention that we all appreciate the election 
of Mr. Crinnell to Fellowship. It is the happiest possible choice which 
could have been made. Others of our members do not have the time 
or opportunity to be as active, but all are working earnestly in a com¬ 
mon cause. As for myself, I sometimes douh# my right to be dubbed an 
"ornithologist", since my time goes almost entirely towards the 
operation of the Club and its magazine. However with 170 members at 
work in all branches and degrees of the science, it is necessary that 
