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 THE CONDOR VoL XV. THE CONDOR A biagazine of Western Ornithology Publisled Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornltholo#ic&l Club J. GRINNELL, Editor. Berkeley. C,liforni& HARRY S. SWARTH. Assocli, re Editor J. EVGENE LAW W, rLEE CHAMBERS Business Mu, n&fers !!oilywed, California: Published Juno 7, 191,,1 SUBSCIIPTION RATES One Dolhr &ud Fifty Cents per Ye&r in the United. States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. Colonies, l)ayable in advance Thiriy Cents'the single copy. One Doll&r &nd Seventy-five Cents per Ye&r in all other countries in the International Postal Union. Cl&ims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscriptions and Exel&uges should be sent to the Business Manager. M&nvscrlpts for puhllc&tiou, and Books and P&pers for review, should be sent to the Editor. Adveffisluf R&tes on application. EDITORIAL.NOT,ES AND NEWS The July issue of THE CONDOR will contain the annual Club Roster. It is important that accuracy be secured in addresses and spelling of names. To this end it is desir- able that corrections in last year's Roster be reported as soon as possible to Mr. li. S. Swarth, Museum of History, Science and Art, Los Angeles, California, who will have in charge the compilation of the new list. Ridgway's new "Nomenclature of Colors," reviewed in another column, meets our most sanguine expectations. By its use color nam- ing can be put upon an exact basis. liere- after all descriptions involving color terms should accort with the permanent standards here set. Messrs. J. Eugene Law and Allan Brooks spent the month of April on a collecting trip through Arizona. Five days' were spent at Tucson, approximately three weeks in the Chiricahua Mountains at from five to nine thousand feet altitude, and a few days at Rodeo, New Mexico. About 300 bird-skins were obtained,--not a large number, but of that exquisite make which characterizes the output of these careful collectors. After spending a few days in west-central Califor- nia Mr. Brooks left on May 10 for his home in British Columbia. Mr. liarold C. Bryant, well known for his contributions to economic ornithology, has joined the staff of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. As Assistant Curator of Birds, he will, in addition to a share of the routine work, undertake in collaboration with Mr. Grinnell a study of the game birds of California with special reference to the prob- lem of game conservation. Our fellow Club member Mr. Harold I-I. Bailey is about to publish a book upon the "Breeding Birds of Virginia." There wtil be . many illustrations, both figures and plates, and the text is designed to meet popular needs in a state which has hitherto lacked a local bird book. It is of interest to note the expanding careers of individuals whose early predilec- tions have been strongly in the line of bird study. A gratifying sequence of events pre- sents itself in the case of Mr. William L. Finley. At first an ardent and successful student of life histories, subsequently identi- fied with the Audubon movement, he has now become State Game Warden of Oregon. In this office Finley has been able to devise and put into practice methods of game conserva- tion which are in the first rank for efficiency. He has secured the confidence of the state legislature, so that an almost ideal set of laws are now in force, by which Oregon's bird-life is rendered practically immune to many of the factors which have proven so fatal to the birds of many of the Eastern states. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED BIRDS COLLECTED OR OBSERVED ON THE EX- PEDITION oF THE ALPINE CLUB oF CANADA TO JASPER PARK,' YELLOWHEAD PASS, AND MOUNT ROBSON REOON. BY J. H. RLEY. The Cana- dian Alpine Journal, Special Number; pub- lished by the Alpine Club of Canada; Banff, Alberta; 1912 (reviewer's copy received March 19, 1913); 8 vo., pp. 1-97, 20 pls., 1 map; price one dollar. The expedition of which this report treats was undertaken conjointly by the Alpine Club of Canada. and the Smithsonian Institution, N. Hollister and J. li. Riley being appointed from the United States National Museum to take part in the field work, and to report upon the resulting collections. The publication con- tains, besides the account of the birds (pp. 47- 75), reports upon the mammals, by N. Hollis- ter, and the plants, by Paul C. StandIcy. Seventy-eight species of birds are listed. The two new subspecies named as a result of