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 112 THE. CONDOR Vol. XIII THE CONDOR An Illustrated lqagazin. of 'estern Ornithology' Pubilshed Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholil Club J. GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley, Cllf. J. EGENE LAW W. LEE CHAMBERS Busine HY S. SWARTH ROBERT B. ROCKWELL  Associate dltors 6. WLLTT Hollywood, California: Published May 22, 1911 SUISCI%IPTION RATES One Doll&r and Fifty Cents per e&r in the United States, Canada, lexico and U.S. Colonies, payable in advance Thirty Cents the single copy. One Doll&r &nd Seventy-five Cents per r in all other countries in the International Postal Union. Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscriptions and Exckanfes should be sent to the Business Manager. !nuserpts /or publication, and Books and Pu. pers for review. should be sent to the Editor. Advertising Rs/es on application. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS Mr. Edmund Iteller has embarked upon a third expedition to British East-Africa, in pursuit of big game. This time he is one of a party equipped with a string of cow ponies, a pack of bear dogs, and a moving picture machine. It would appear that an extreme of exciting adventure will be one pretty certain outcome of such a combination ! However, Mr. Heller is the naturalist of the party, and will collect and prepare as scientific specimens, as much of the spoils as possible for the National Museum. He will particularly try to obtain material supplementary to the Roose- velt collections, which are the basis of an ex- tended scientific report in course of preparation by Mr. Heller. Mr. Fred M. Dille, a pioneer Colorado natur- alist, has been appointed special warden by the U.S. Biological Survey, to investigate or- nithological cond/tions in the vicinity of the Minidoka and Deer Flat reclamation projects in Idaho, and the Cold Spring project in Oregon. He assumes his new duties at once. Mr. W. L. Burnett, who has long been iden- tified wifi biological work in Colorado, has recently been appointed Curator of the Museum of the State Agricultural College, at Ft. Col- lins, Colorado. His new position will enable him to devote his entire time to biological work, and the college is to be congratulated upon securing the services of a man so emi- nently equipped for the work he is to under- take. Mr. Burnett' assumes his new position June 1st. A few of the older members of the Cooper Club may be interested to kuow that Mr. H. B. Bailey, one of the founders of the Nuttall Club, American Ornithologists' Union, and Linnaeau Society, has become an active worker iu the ranks of ornithologists and oologists once more. Since his collection of eggs went into the Museum of Natnral History in New York some years ago, he has done little active work along these lines. Having lately re- tired from business he has taken up his old hobbies and has joined forces with his son in a new Bailey Collection and I, ibrary. He left some time ago for Florida on an extensive trip after specimens. Mr. Alex Wetmore, who has been at the Kansas State University for the past year, has left Lawrence, Kansas, for Seattle, Washing- ton, where he is to join Mr. A. C. Bent and Rollo Beck in an extended collecting trip through the Aleutian Islands. Mr. Wetmore joins the party as a representative of the Bio- logical Survey. Mr. E. R. Warren left his home at Colorado Springs about the middle of May, for an ex- tensive collecting trip through central and northern Colorado. Mr. Warren is thoroughly equipped with a sea-worthy prairie schooner, and expects to be in the field until fall. According to our critic (T. S. P.) in April .tird-Lore it would appear that the illustrations In THE CONDOR have improved greatly since we dropped simplified spelling ! PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED THE HOlIE-LIFE oF THE SPpONBILL, THE STORK AND SoIE HERONS, by BENTLEY BEE- THA, F. Z. S. [Witherby & Co., London, 1910, pp. i-wH, 1-47, pll. 1-31. Price 6 s. net.] Four species are treated, the Spoonbill, White Stork, Common Heron and Purple Heron. They were studied and photographed from blinds placed in marsh or tree top, as the case might be, and with what would appear to be most gratifying success. The photographs are beautiful and instructive, conveying much in- formation of a sort that would be difficult to obtain from the best written accounts, while the accompanying text is couched in a most attractive style, and, though but a compara- tively limited space is given to each species, contains a great deal of very interesting life history. The description of the actions of the young Purple Herons, deserting their nests in the tree-tops at the approach of danger, and taking refuge in the tangles of underbrush on the ground, each retnrning to his own home when the danger has passed, is of great inter- est; additional traits of this species as well as