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 134 THE CONDOR VOL. XlI THE CONDOR An Illutrated lqagazlne of 'retern Ornitholor PubllsKt Bi-Monthly by the Cooper OrnlthohMi- eal Club of Callfornlu. JOSEPH GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley, CuJ. J. EVGENE LAW, Business Mu.v, ager, Hollywood, Cal. W. LEE CHAMBEK. S, Business Manager, Santu. Monica., Cal, HARK. Y S. SWAK. TH ) . . . ROBERT B. ROCKWELL [ Assocm. le Editors Hollywood, California: Publisht July 15, 1910 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, Mexico, and U.S. Colonies. payable in advance. Thlrty Cetits the single copy. One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents per Year in all other counties in the International Postal Union. Claims for missin or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscriptlotis and Exchanles should be sent to the Mu. nuscrlpts for publication. and Books and Pu. pera for review should be seat to the Editor. AdvertlziR[ Rates on application. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS This issue contains the "Directory of Mem- bers of the Cooper Ornithological Club", an annual feature of our magazine which we are repeatedly assured is a very useful one. It will be noted that the list is much larger than ever before, including 302 names. We would be glad of information as to any errors or changes in addresses, so that the secretary's card index may be kept up to date. In a paper concernihg the "Introduction of the Hungarian Partridge into the United States" (:separate from Yearbook of U.S. Dept. Agr. for 1909, piS. 249-258, pl. xIv) Mr. Henry Oldys of the Biological Survey concludes with the following significant remarks: "Not only is acclimatization of an exotic species difficult, but it may, if successful, lead to unexpected re- sults:" the bird may become anuisance to agri- culturists and it may crowd out our native speci- es. "Hence it would seem wise to devote less energy and money to the establishment of this and other exotic species and give more attention to the restoration and mainten- ance of our native game birds." We heartily agree with this last suggestion and would re- spectfully recommend it to the consideration of our zealous State Fish and Game Commission- ers. Our thanks are due Mr. H. S. Swarth for as- suming the entire work of getting out the last two issues of our nmgazine, during the time the regular editor was absent afield. Mr. Swarth is spending the summer in the north- ern part of Vancouver Island where he is a member of Miss Alexander'.s party which is making collections there for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of Cali- fornia. Mr. H. W. Carriger spent the first two weeks of June in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe. He and Mr. M. S. Ray, who is devoting a larger part of the early summer to the same region, were successful in finding some extremely rare birds' nests. We are not at liberty to an- nounce what these finds were, any further than to tenturk that they are new for Califor- nia, and that the descriptions of them will ap- pear in due time in THE CONDOR. We learn from the /uk that the long-prom/st new edition of thd American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds will probably be redyjor distribution about the end of July. Altho it will differ somewhat in typog- rafy and in the character of the matter from previous editions, the arrangement and humer- ation will be the same. As most of the changes in nomenclature have been added in the num- erous Supplements issued since 1895, we are assured that there will in this respect be few surprizes. The geografical distribution of the species and subspecies have, however, been en- tirely rewritten and greatly amplified. Besides being given in greater detail and with more de- finitness, the new arrangement will show not only the general range of the forms, but also the breeding and winter ranges, so far as these are at present known. This single feature has merit the expenditure of a vast amount of work on the part of those members of the Committee having this subject in charge. We are further informed that an abbreviated edition of the Check-List, consisting only of the English and technical names, numbered, is in preparation and will be issued at about the same time as the regular edition. Copies of both publica- tions may be obtained thru the Business Mana- ger of the Union, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 134 West 71st Street, New York City. Jird-Lore has lately devoted no less than 64 lines of its surplus space to rather shallow ridicule of THE CONDOR for adopting simpli- fied spelling. The nature of these aspersions serves chiefly to advertize the astonishing ig- norance of its editor and "T. S. P.," of the principles of a subject with which every edu- cated man in this day of economic advance ought to be familiar. The Editors of THE CONDOR are not attempting to originate any new fad, as is implied, but are merely falling in line with a wide-spred movement which is essentially progressiv, and which is rapidly gaining ground because of its obvious merits. The extensive oological collections of F. M. Dille, of Denver, and G. It. Messenger, of Linden, Iowa, have been merged by their