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 144 THE CONDOR Vol. XIX THE CONDOR A Maazln of Western Ornithology Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornithological Club J. GRINNELL, Editor HARRY S. SWARTH, Assoclate Editor J. EUGENE LAW } Business Managers W. LEE CHAMBERS Hollywood, California: Published July 25, 1617 SUDSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, payable in advance. T!rty 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 residing 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 ditor, $. 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. Address W. Lee Chambers, Business Manager, l]agle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. EDITORIAL NOTES Messrs. Chambers and Law have filed with the two Divisions of the Cooper Club their report of the organization's finances for the year 1916. This report shows a re- markably healthy state of affairs when one considers the rather perplexing conditions under which publishers have had to labor the past year or so. To our Business Mana- gers is due the Club's heartlest thanks for the intelligent attention they have devoted to its affairs. The following are some of the outstanding features of the report. The total receipts for the year amounted to $2143.39, derived as follows: Dues, $1281.35; subscriptions to Condor, $223.45; advertis- ing, $4.00; sale of back Condors, $71.59; sale of Avifaunas, $338.00; life memberships, $225.00. Expenditures involved $1991.61, covering the following items: Printing Con- dor, $1167.56; half-tone cuts and other illus- trations, $124.65; separates, $8.21; Editorial expense, $22.94; Managerial expense, $149.05; Division expenses, $59.20; balance on Avifauna xL $460.00. In bank on Janu- ary 1, 1916, $88.08; on January 1, 1917, $239.86. Against this latter fund, however, should be debited advance dues and sub- scriptions received on 1917 account; indeed, an actual deficit is figured for 1916, of $142.25. Nevertheless the outlook for 1917 is not discouraging, in spite of the world events which are bound to have a depress- ing effect on every enterprise for the pro- duction of other than the basic necessities of life and war. It is quite likely that a re- duction in the size of THE CONDOR for 1918 will be necessary. It is planned to establish a reserve this year to cover possible crease in income i 1918. Ornithological periodicals the world over have already shown more or less reduction in size; some of them have suspended altogether. We have been until now the most fortunate, and prospects with us are still far from serious. The Cooper Club suffered the loss of a useful and widely known member in the death o'f Norman DeWitt Betts who, on May 21, 1917, was instantly killed by lightning at his cattle ranch in northeastern Utah. Graduated from Cornell University as a mechanical engineer, and employed for sev- eral years in the United States Forest Ser- vice, Betts's work had taken him into the field in several states of the middle west. At the time of his death he was thirty-seven years of age and was therefore at a period which promised much for ornithology, for he had become practiced as a field observer and had begun to record notes of much gen- eral interest on the bird-life in the little known region of his new home. His first publications were in The Auk and Bird-Lore and were written from St. Louis in 1909 ad 1910. Later, notes in the same magazines were contributed from Boulder and from Madison. In THE CONDOR of July, 1916, ap- peared an account written by Betts relative to' the birds encountered during his trip to Montana in the summer of 1915. Of great- est interest, however, is his list of the birds of Boulder County, Colorado, a paper of fifty-five pages published by the University of Colorado as Number Four of Volume Ten of their "Studies".--O. WIVMANN. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED How TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH BIRDS What to do to make one's home grounds at- tractive to ] bird life. From nesting boxes to winter feeding ] By NIEL MORROW LAOD President of the Greenwich Bird Protective Society. ] Member of the Linnaea Society [design] I More than 200 illustrations ] Gar- den City New York I Doubleday, Page & Company I 1916. pp. 8-]-228, illus., as above, some colored.