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 262 THE CONDOR Vol. XVI THE CONDOR A lf-g-zin of estern Ornit}olo3 Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooer Omitholodil Club J, GRINNELL, Editor, Berkeley, Cliforniu HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor J. EVGENE LAW W. LE CHAMBEKS Hollywood, Calif0rnie: Publish0d Nov. 25, 1914 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One DolIM' and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. Colonies, payable in advance Thirty Cents the single copy. One Dollar end Seventy-five Cents per Year in all other Countries in the International Postal Union. COOPER CLUB DUES Two Dollars per' year for members residing in the United States. Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents in all other countr/es, Cleims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue. Subscriptions and Exchanges should be sent to the Bualne.s Manager. Menuscrlptc for publication. and Books and Pupers for review, should be sent to the lditor. Advertisinf Rates on application. EDITOltIAL NOTES AND NEWS A meeting of the Committee on Arrange- ments for the 1915 Congress of the Ameri- can Ornithologists' Union in California was held at the residence of Mr. Joseph Mailli- ard in San Francisco, September 19, 1914, with all members present, and also Presi- dent A. K. Fisher. Any question of failure in carrying out the original plans, owing to the war or any ther cause, was emphatical- ly disclaimed. A plan of publicity was out- lined, by which to reach all American stu- dents of birds with a view to clearly setting forth the attractions of a western itinerary to include the joint A. O. U.---Cooper Club meeting in San Francisco. For instance, it is proposed to organize several local field excursions, of interest alike to visitors from within our own state, and to those from other states. One of these would include the Farallon Island bird rookeries; another the breeding grounds of ibis, stilt, avocet, and ducks at Los Barios; another the Sierra woodlands at Lake Tahoe. Each of these localities, and others in mind, will by the latter half of May be at their height of at- tractiveness. The Program Committee is also actively at work. Members of both the Cooper Club and the A. O. U., having in mind the preparation of papers, illustrated or otherwise, should announce their inteno tions to Prof. Walter K. Fisher, Chairman, Palo Alt0, California. Dr. Harold C. Bryant, Assistant Curator of Birds in the California Museum of Verte- brate Zoology and President of the Northern Division of the Cooper Club, has been placed in charge of the new Bureau of Education just established under the auspices of the California Fish and Game Commission. This bureau will dispense information relating to game by means of correspondence, public illustrated lectures, and by the issuance of bulletins on the status of game. Laws, though necessary, are not so effective for the protection and preservation of game as an enlightened public sentiment. This new move of the Commission is to be heartily commended by all interested in conserva- tion, for it will hasten the day when pro- tective laws enforced by police patrol will be comparatively unnecessary. Bryant's first bulletin, called "California Fish and Game", appeared the last of October. The Bulleti.n will be sent free upon application to any citizen of California. Dr. Bryant's address continues to be Museum of Verte- brate Zoology, University of California. Visitors to California the past summer and fall have included an unusual number of the more prominent Eastern bird people. A number of Pacific Coast students had the privilege of meeting or renewing acquaint- ance with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bailey. Mrs. Bailey is, as ever, actively on the lookout for information additional to, or emenda- tory of, her already standard Handbook of Western Birds. Mr. E. W. Nelson made flying visits to many sections, from Van- couver to Los Angeles. Dr. C. Hart Mer- riam, as usual of late years, spent a few weeks at his delightful summer place at Lagunitas, Marin County.. Dr. A. K. Fisher made a hasty reconnaissance of several western states in connection with the eco-" nomic work of the United States Biological Survey. Mr. Tracy I. Storer, Secretary of the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornitho- logical Club, has been appointed to an as- sistant curatorship of birds in the Califor- nia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. His re- search work will have to do with the study of the game birds of California already un- der way under the auspices of the Museum. At the present writing (November 9) the fight for non-sale of game in Califor- nia appears to have been lost. How- ever, the count of votes is still going on, and the final returns may switch the results back again. Whatever the outcome, it has been an up-hill contest, and great credit is due the officers of the California Associ- ated Societies, particularly its President, Dr. W. F. Bad, and its Secretary, Dr. W. P. Taylor. The latter, with a corps of helpers, distributed printed matter to the voters of the state as follows: 20,000 Western Wild