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 286 TH] CONDOR Vol. XVII THE CONDOR A Malachite of estern Ornithology, Published Bi-MontM b the Coer Ornltholoic Club J. GRINNELL, Editor AY S. SWART, soete Etor J. EGENE LAW  Budneff Maerf W. LEE CHAMBERS Itoll,ood, California: Published N0y. 30, 1915 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, payable in advance. Thirty Ceres the single copy. One Dollar and 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 Doll,rs and Twenty-five Cut in all other countries. Manuscripts for publication, and Books and Papers. for Review, should be sent to the Editor, I. Grinnell, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, California. Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made of the Business Manager, as addressed below, within thirty days of date of issue. Cooper Club Dues, Subscriptions to The Condor, and Exchanges, should be sent to the Business Manager. Advertising Rates on application to the Business Manager. Address W. Lee Chambers, Business Manager. ]agle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS Accordin to AVIFAUA No. 11, California has 541 species and subspecies of birds. It may be of interest to compare this figure with those for other states. Myron H. Swenk (in rebraska Blue Book, 1915, page 835) has assembled the following data. There is as yet no report for Texas, but that state probably follows California as a close second. Nebraska comes third with 418 spe- cies (Swenk, 1915); then, west of the Mis- sippi, Colorado with 397 (Cooke, 1911), Kansas with 379 (Bunker, 1913), Missouri with 35 (Widmann, 1907), Iowa with 354 (R. M. Anderson, 1907), and Arkansas with 255 (A. H. Howell, 1911). East of the Mis- sissippi the largest list seems to be that of New York with 411 (Eaton, 1910-14), while Maine has 327 (Knight, 1905), Connecticut 329 (Sage and Bishop, 1913), West Virginia 246 (Brooke, 1913), Michigan 326 (W. B. Barrows, 1912), Illinois and Wisconsin, combined, 398 (Cory, 1909), and Alabama 275 ( Oberholser, 1909 ). Westwardly, Washington has 372 species (Dawson and Bowles, 1909) and Arizona 362 (Swarth, 1914). Mi -. W. C. Bradbury, a retired capitalist of Denver, has been devoting most of his time the past three years to assembling a collection of birds' eggs for the Colorado Museum of Natural History, of which insti- tution he is a trustee. His efforts have re- suited in a representation of some 600 dif- ferent species, with many fine series, occu- pying ' twenty-eight large show-cases. As can be readily inferred new things are now coming in very slowly. William Alanson Bryan, Professor in the College of Hawaii, has just gotten out a book entitled "Natural History of Hawaii." Of the five "sections," one is devoted to the animal life of the archipelago, and of this section a consideration of its remarkable bird-life naturally occupies the larger part. Mr. Bryan is, of course, especially well equipped to handle this part of his subject with authority and in entertaining style. We have to record the sad news of the death of Gaylord K. Snyder, active member of the Cooper Ornithological Club, who passed away at his home in Los Angeles, August 28, 1915. Mr. Snyder was a young man of most pleasing personality, a frequent attendant at Southern Division meetings, where his presence will be greatly missed, and an occasional contributor to TrrE CoN- boa. In his untimely death the Club has sustained a distinct loss. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED LITTLE BIRp BLUE I By WILLIAM L. and IRENE FINLEY with illustrations by [ R. Bruce Horsfall and from photographs ] [vignette] I Boston and New York I Hough- ton Mifflin Company I The Riverside Press Cambridge I 1915 ! ; pp. 1-60. ($0.75 fiet.) The offering of the above title is a charm- ing little volume which may be read aloud to the children as a bedtime story; .and then around the circle. it must go for each little auditor to look long and lovingly at little Bird Blue perched on Phoebe Kath- erine's head or William's careful fingers,- and suddenly we realize that it is long past the children's bedtime! The story deals with three months in the life of a bluebird, from the time he was found orphaned and nearly dead in the net box under the caves until he answered the call of his race one autumn day. The recital of Bird Blue's rearing inter- ests the children greatly and brings to them many bits of wisdom regarding birds and bird conservation; while the photographs reproduced in the book are a perfect delight to child-lovers and bird-lovers alike. The drawings are for the most part good. How- ever, we refuse to accept the "sharp-ranged creature" on page 12 as a prowling cat! It