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 172 THE CONDOR Vol. XVIII THE CONDOR A l[a[fazine of Weotern Ornltholofy Published Bi=Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholoical Club J. GRINNELL, Editor HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor J. EUGENE LAW  BuGess Managers W. LEE cHAMBERS Hellyweed, Califernia: Publisitod July 20, 1916 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, payable in advance. Thirty Cents the single copy. One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents per Year in all other countries in the International Potal Union. COOPER CLUB DUES Two Dollars per year for members residing in the United States. Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents in all other countries. Manuscripts for publication, and Books and Papars for Review, should be sent to the Editor, J. Grinnell, Museum of Vertebte 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 Exchones, should be sent to the Business Manager. Adver/hg Rates on application to the Business Manager. Address W, Lee Chambers, Business Manager, Hagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS Attention of persons especially interested in game conservation is urgently called to the proposed new regulations for the pro- tection of migratory birds, printed on this and following pages. Some significant changes will be noted when comparison is made with the regulations up till now in force. Criticisms and comments are invited by the Secretary of Agriculture; these should be forwarded at once. With the departure of Mr. Walter P. Tay- lor to join the staff of the Biological Sur- vey in Washington, the ranks of Pacific Coast ornithologists have lost a useful member. While Taylor is a relatively young man he has already shown marked ability in field work and in faunistic research. But the particular thing which has qualified his activity has been his concentration upon the idea of wild life conservation. With a good equipment in general knowledge of natural history, and with a certain civic consciousness--these combined with energy and mental alertness--his influence as re- gards game and bird protection has been far-reaching. It is needless here to recount the activities of the society which he was mainly instrumental in founding and carry- ing on, and the results which were with greater .or less success attained. References to files of THE CoooR will show many of his reports as Secretary of the California Associated' Societies for the Conservation of Wild Life. It seems to us fortunate that Taylor has now entered government service where opportunities for just this kind of work would seem likely to offer in large measure. While for the moment we regret the loss of Taylor's influence here in the West, we can but congratulate him upon his advancement in position and opportunities. The Cooper Club has sustained a loss in the death of Alphonse Jay, who died from injuries received in an automobile accident on May 25, 1916. Mr. Jay was one of the most active and enthusiastic of bird stu- dents in Los Angeles, and he will be sorely missed from the meetings of the Southern Division. Not long ago a group of California mem- bers of the Cooper Ornithological Club were talking in'formally about the current trend and achievements in ornithology. Some way or another the conversation centered on the relative eminence attained to among living ornithologists, and after much debate the following five were selected as foremost in America in point of scientific output: (1) R. Ridgway, (2) J. A. Allen, (3) L. Stejne- get, (4) W. Stone, (5) H. C. Oberholser. It was further concluded, that, as interpreters of our science, in other words, popularizers of ornithology, the following had achieved greatest success, directly or indirectly, in order of merit as named: (1) Frank M. Chapman, (2) Florence Merriam Bailey, (3) John Burroughs, (4) William Dutcher, (5) Louis A. Fuertes. PROPOSED NEW REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS Pursuant to the provision of the act of March 4, 1913, authorizing and directing the Department of Agriculture to adopt suita- ble regulations prescribing and fixing closed seasons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), having due regard to zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and lines of mi- gratory flight, the Department of Agricul- ture has prepared and hereby makes pub- lic, for examination and consideration be- fore final adoption, the following regula- tions: Regulation 1. Definitions. For the purposes of these regulations the