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 Jan., 1908 EDITORIALS ,51 THE CONDOI .&n Illustrated Ivtagazlne of Western Ornltholog- Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholo$i- cal Club of Californiu, JOSEPH GRINNELL, Editor. - Pu. se, denu. J, EIIGENE LAW, Business Manager. Hollywood,Cal. WILLIAM L. FINLEY } Associu. te Editors ROBERT B. KOCKWELL Pasadena, California: Published Feb. 1, 1908 SUBSCKIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Centsper Year in the United States Mexico, and U.S. Colonies, payable in advauee Thirty Cents the single copy. One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents per Year in all other cormtries in the International Postal Union Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscriptions should be sent to the Business Manager. Mnvscripta and Exchanges should be sent to the Editor Advertising Rates on application, EDITORIALS The editorial staff of Tr:IE CONDOR has been strengthened by the addition of Mr. Robert B. Rockwell, of Denver, who becomes Associate Editor. This is fortunate, because the geogra- phic range of our magazine includes a very large region (west of the Mississippi). and it is pro- pitious that the work be represented at several separate points in our field. Mr. Finley repre- sents us in Oregon and Washington, and now we have Mr. Rockwell pledged to advance our magazine's interests in the Rocky Monntain regmn. We wish it understood by .our contributors that there is no intended significance in the ar- rangement of articles in any issue, beyond the selection of what we consider the most suitable photograph for the frontispiece. Sometim. es we try to have illustrated and unillustrated arti- cles alternate with one another, but sequence in no wise indicates order of merit. We learn that Mr. Robert Ridgway expects to leave about March first for a six months' visit in Costa Rica. UFon his return he will re- sume work on Part V of his "Birds of North and Middle America." The first National bird reservation to be es- tablished on the Pa..trio Coast was formally ordered by President Roosevelt on October last. The area set aside is Three Arch Rocks, a group of islets on the coast of Oregon. The bird-life of these rocks was studied by Finley and Bohlman (see CONDOR Vol. VII, pp. H 9- x6t) and its protection has resulted chiefly from the endeavors of these energetic members of the Oregon Audubon Society. We are further informed that thru the ef- forts of Mr. Dawson, whose article on the sub- iect appears on another page of our presen issue, three more breeding places of sea birds, on the Washington coast, have been officially reserved. The-e three reservations extend from Copalis Rock to Cape Flattery inclusive, a distance of nearly one hundred miles. Pro- ceeding from south to north they are named: Copalis Rock Reservation, including "all small, unsurveyed and unreserved islands lying .off the coast of the State of Washington in the Pacific Ocean between latitude 47 degrees eo minutes north, and 47 degrees 29 minutes north" ** ** ** "reserved and set aside for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds and animals." Quillavule Needles Reservation, extend'ng from 47 degrees 38 minutes to 48 degrees 2 min- utes north. Flattery iPocks iPeservation, extending from latitude 48 degrees 2 minutes to 48 degrees 23 minutes north. (The gap between the first and second reservations contains no islands.) One of the most important factors in bird protection in Colorado is the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. This is a state organization with offices in the State Capitol Building which, under the efficient manage- ment of Secretary E. K. Whitehead, has ac- complished more along this line than any other Humane Society in the United States. A circular, size ix inches by t 4 inches, has been printed on very heavy durable paper, tooo of which have recently been posted in conspicuous places all over the state, by this organization. The publicity thus given to the law protecting birds and their nests and eggs cannot fail to have a far-reaching effect thruout the wilder mountainous sections of the state. where the game laws are little known and where officers of the law are uecessarily few and far between. Doubly efficient will this warning be on ac- count of the fact that there are representatives of the State Bureau at nearly 3o0 points in the state, persons who are serving without com- pensation, and simply on account of their in- tense interest in this line of work. These peo- ple may be depended upon to see that these laws are enforced when they have the assur- ance that an active and aggressive organization is back of them. Mr. Whitehead has gone on record as giving assurance to all interested parties that he will rigorously prosecute all violators of the bird law if sufficient evidence is furnished him. Consequently it is up to the bird students of Colorado to see that evidence of all violations of the bird laws is put in the hands of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. --R.B, R.