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 Mar., 1910 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 81 THE CONDOB, An Illustrated Magazine of Western Ornithology Publlsht Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornltholoi- al Club of Callforni& JOSEPli GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley, J. EVGENE LAW. Business M&Lager, Ho[lyw0od, W. LEE CHAMBER. S, Business MaLager. Santa Monlc, HARR. Y S. SWAR. TH -Assoclete Editors ROBERT B. ROCKWELL J Hollywood, California: PubJisht Mar. 25, 1910 SUDSCIklPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, Mexico, and U.S. Colonies, payable in advance. Thirty CeLts the single copy, One Dollar and Seventy-five CeLts per Year in all other couutries in the Interuational Potal Union. Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue Subso'iptloLs and Exchanges should be sent to the M&nuscrlp/s for public&/ion. and Books and Papers for review should be sent to the Editor Advertising Rates on application, EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS The first expedition for 1910 to take the field:in the interest of the University of Cali- fornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, left on February 13. The party is headed by Mr. J. Grinnell, who is assisted by Messrs. F. Steph- ens, J. Dixon and H. Jones; the field of their endeavors is the valley of the Colorado River, between Needles and Yuma. After a short stay at Needles boats were procured, and the party started dowu the stream, the plan being tocollect at intervals on both sides of the river; proceeding by easy stages to Yuma, which will be reacht about May 15. The same trip was made by Dr. Elliott Coues, years ago, when the country was new and unknown; and it is decidedly suggestive to note that the list of birds he saw along the river includes several species that have not since been observed in Arizona--to such an extent has this region been neglected by naturalists. The present expedition promises much in the way of results. We are in receipt of an announcement of the organization in New York City, on December 8, 1909, of the American Bird Banding Associa- tion, the object of which is "the banding of wild birds and the recording of accurate data on their movements." The migrations of birds are thus studied by the placing of num- bered, addrest, metal bands upon their legs, a record being kept of the same. This method of study, tho new in this country, has been pursued in Europe for some time. It promises. interesting resnlts, and there are doubtless many Cooper Club members who will be de- sirous of assisting in the work. Full informa- tion may be procured from the president of the society, Dr. Leon J. Cole, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut. John Farwell Ferry, member of the Cooper Ornithological Club, died at Chicago, Illinois, February 11, 1910, of acute pnenmonia. Mr. Ferry was born on October 12, 1877 and gradu- ated from Yale in 1901. In his preparatory work at Andover, Massachusetts, he was one of the most popular young men in the school. His strong Christian principles and his thoro work as Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and Editor of the school paper at Andover, are still spoken of by the officers of that institution. Mr. Ferry was fast winning distinction as an ornithologist. He had made numerous expedi- tions, in Arizona, aud, for the United States Biological Survey, in the Coast Ranges of Cali- fornia. His latest and most notable trips were several expeditions to Central and South Amer- ica, made in the interest of the Field Museum, of Chicago. His last trip was to some of the islands of the Caribbean Sea, of which little or nothing was known oruithologically, and he obtained an immense number of specimens, among which were several species and varieties new to science. The results of this trip are embodied in a report by C. B. Cory on the Biids of the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea, (Field Mus. Pub. no. 137, Orn. Series, Vol. 1, no. 5). His sterling qualities of heart and mind endeared .him to all his friends aud acquaint- ances. During my association with Mr. Ferry for twenty years, I have never heard hitn say a depreciating word against any man no matter how great an injustice may have been done hint. Men of this splendid character are rare and it behooves us to take advantage of their lives as an example for future guidance. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED THE HOME-LIFE OF A GOLDEN' EAGLE. BY H. B. MACPHERSON'. With thirty-two mounted plates. London, 1909, pp. 1-45. The account here given of the life of a young eagle, during the eleven weeks between its birth and the time of its departure from the nest, is one of greatest interest. The writer's unusual opportunites for photography and study were evidently taken advantage of