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 26 THE CONDOR Vol. XIX THE CONDOR A Maazine of Western Ornithology Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornltholoical Club . GRINNELL, Editor HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor . EUGENE LAW } Business Manag'ers W. LEE CHAMBERS Hollywood, California: Published Jan. 15, 1917 SUDSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year iu. 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 Postal Union. COOPER CLUB DUES Two Dollars per year for members residiug in the United States. Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents in all other countries. Manuscripts for publication, and Books and Papers for Review, should be sent to the Editor, J. Grinnell, Museunl 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 Exchang'es, shonld be sent to the Business Manager. Advertlsln Rates on application to the Business Manager. Address W. lee Chambers, Business Manager, lagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS The once widely-held notion that swal- lows and swifts hibernate in the muc like frogs was long ago shattered, as being con- trary to both probability and ascertained fact. Mr. Hanna, in the opening article of this issue of THE CONDOR, raises the ques- tion whether White-throated Swifts may not at times in winter hide themselves away in the crevices of cliffs and pass through a period of dormancy. There appears to be some ground for reviving the idea of bird hibernation. Financial matters have caused continual delay in the printing of Avifauna no. 12 (HoweiFs Birds of the Southern California Coast Islands). But now the C. O. C. Busi- ness Managers announce that the way is clear, and that we are to see the publica- tion of this memoir just as soon as it can be put through Nace's print shop. Neither Ts Corn}oR, the Avifauna series, nor the Zoological Publications of the Uni- versity of California are copyrighted. We can see no adequate reason for in any way hampering the free and unlimited distribu- tion of knowledge. The specialists' discov- ery of today should become the common knowledge of everyone tomorrow. At the same time, common courtesy demands that where important facts or passages are tak- en from original sources and incorporated into a new article, or book, proper credit be indicated. There is often a need for en- suring authoritativeness of statement, to be met in this way also. Mr. Austin Paul Smith is now doing field work in western Texas, with headquarters at Fort Davis. He reports finding among other birds of interest, the Lloyd Bush-tit in goodly numbers. CONDOR readers will doubtless soon hear in detail of Mr. Smith's observations in that interesting section of the country. Owing to ill health, Mr. H. W. Henshaw has resigned his position as Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, dating from December 1. Mr. Henshaw has been connected with the De- partment Of Agriculture since 1905, serving as Assistant Chief of the Bureau until 1910, and from then on, as Chief. During this period the Survey has grown rapidly. In order that the Bureau may continue to have the benefit of Mr. Henshaw's knowledge and experience he will retain official con- nection with it as Consulting Biologist. Mr. E. W. Nelson, who has been on the scienti- fic staff of the Bureau since 1890, and As- sistant Chief since 1914, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Henshaw as Chief of the Bureau. Mr. Frank Stephens has been made Su- perintendent of the newly established Zoo- logical Garden in San Diego. Of all the direct agencies of destruction brought to bear on our native bird-life as a result of human settlement of the country, that satellite of man, the domestic cat, is undoubtedly the worst. The whole question of cat perfidy and cat suppression is ably discussed by Mr. E. H. Forbush in a bulle- tin (number 2 of the Economic Biology se- ries) lately issued by the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. No one inter- ested in bird protection (and who is not?) should fail to read this admirable presenta- tion of the subject. MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS NOR rHERN DIVISION SEPTEMBER.--The regular meeting of the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornitholog- ical Club was held on the evening of Sep- tember 21, 1916, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley. The following members were present when the meeting was called to order by President Storer: Messrs. Bry- ant, Camp, Carrigor, Davis, Dawson, Grin- nell, Hansen, Storer; Miss Crane; Mrs. Grinnell and Mrs. Schlisinger.