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 May, 1915 EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS 133 New York, April 3, 1865, and moved to Kala- mazoo in 1872. His favorite study was ornithology, and his collection of birds, nests, and eggs is one of the best in his State. The many friends who enjoyed the privilege of Pomeroy's acquaintance bear witness to his kindly nature and earnest helpfulness. Although always residing in the East, he was deeply interested in West- ern ornithology, and followed closely the re- sults of the work of others, as reported in current magazines. Dr. Barton W. Evermann and Mr. Joseph Mailliard spent a week in April in the Kern Valley district of the extreme southern Sierra Nevada. Their prime object was to learn further details of the manner of occur- rence of the remarkably restricted Kern Red-winged Blackbird, lately described by Mr. Mallliard. The trip was a success, and the results will be reported in due time. COMMUNICATION ' ]ECK AT CAPE HO]N Editor THE CONDOR: Having rounded the Horn safely in our twelve-ton cutter, and being anchored with- in fifteen miles of that well-known land- mark waiting for one of the ordinary gales to let up, a line to you will pass away a few minutes until the candy boiling on the floor of the cabin on a seventy-eight-cent oil stove bought in San Francisco is pronounced by Mrs. Beck ready for eating. We passed somewhat closer to Cape Horn than do most of the passers-by, going inside the two outer rocks which lie a half mile or so to the southward. The blue-eyelidded, white-breasted cormo- rants were nesting on a pinnacle rock to the westward, recalling the murre rookeries of Alaskan islands. Albatrosses and sooty shearwaters sailed high and low about us. Skuas flew by in rapid flight to some dis- tant fishing point, and frequently penguins would show for a brief moment above the choppy sea. If the captain of the boat had not been so anxious to take me back alive to Punta Arenas, I might have landed and gone up on top of the Horn for a look around; but the uncertainty of the winds and their rapid changing from one point to another, as well as the sudden manner in which they in- crease most forcefully in strength, prevent- ed. As it was, the nice breeze we had, picked up after dinner into half a gale, and it felt most comfortable to run into a shel- tered cove and anchor. In the last five weeks, three days have passed without rain, snow or hall, and I'm hoping for as many more on the return trip. Some days but a squall or two, and others a continual drizzle, makes the raincoat con- stantly necessaiy. Compared with the off- shore ranging of the common California albatross, the fishing here by the common albatross in these southern channels border- ed on either side by snow-topped hills is in- teresting. The island land-bird life is rather barren though, as compared with the Aleu- tian Islands of Alaska. One misses the ptarmigan, the cheery snowflake and the brightly colored leucosticte, although the latter has a counterpart here in a rarely noticed, black-chinned finch that inhabits rocky hillsides. Sea-birds are plentiful, and I have seen nesting colonies of terns, gulls, shags, penguins, shearwaters, and alba- trosJes. Sincerely, R. H. BECK. Care Horn, Chili, January 3, 1915. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED REPORT ON BIRDS COLLECTED AND ORSERVED DURING APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE, 1913, IN TIlE OKANAGAN VALLEY, FROI OKANAGAN LANDING. SOUTH TO .OsoYoos LAKE. By E. M. ANDER- SON. (Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1913, Victoria, British Columbia, Jan., 1914, pp. 7-16.) REPORT OF BIRDS COLLECTED AND OISERVED DURING SEPTE/IRER, 1913, ON ATLIN LAKE, FRO/I ATLIN TO SOUTH END OF THE LAKE. By F. KEBMODE and E. M. ANDERSON. (Ibid., pp. 19-21.) BIRDS COLLECTED AND ORSERVED IN THE ATLIN DISTRICT, 1914. By E. M. ANDERSON. (Report of the Provincial Museum of Nat- ural History for the year 1914, Victoria, British Columbia, January, 1915, pp. 8-17.) The lists contained in the above cited papers include what may be accepted as practically complete catalogues of the sum- mer birds of the regions treated. As little or nothing has been published heretofore regarding the birds of the Atlin district and of Okanagan Valley, of extreme northern and extreme southern British Columbia, re- spectively, these contributions are conse- quently of importance, and as evident, care was taken in the collection and proper identification of specimens, they may be taken as authoritative. From Okanagan Valley one hundred and twenty-nine specimens are listed; from the