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 JAN., I9O2. TIlE CONDOR 27 intended or implied. Hence the personal name is best written in the lorm in which it usually stands in dedication, namely, without the pos- sessive. THE CONDOIt iS taking no' initiative in this nmtter as the firm has been used for many years by the National Board of Geo- graphic Names, by the Divisions of Forestry and Biological Survey of the U.S. Agricultural Department, aud by indepeudeut writers. Thts form we believe is deod-ed to become generally used. 2. A single i will be used in the genitive singular in scientific specific and subspecific uaines; e.g., Zoulric/da /eucophrys nullalii, UOt Jlutlallzi. lu orhe: words the gemrive wid be formed by ad.ing a single i to rle tttthatgcd aame of the person in whose honor the species is named. it appears to us that the double i subserves so little to euphony in comparisou with the labor aud iucouvenience of memorizing its iucousistencies, that the time has arrived when working ornithologists were shed of the nuisance. ir is a well known fact that uumberless cases ocur where the same uame has beeit written with a single i, and iu a different combination wth a dot101e i. l'/talcenopliltts nullallii appears to us as euphon- ions as Zonotrichia l. n nullalii. As Dr. Allen has said, there is no rule by whica one may memorize the occurreace of the two spellings, aud the time aud tried patience involved m editing manuscripts has led us to bring the subject before our coutribmors. We wall uot enter iut9 any philological discussion of the questiou, but may remark that we believe the 'single-i-ists' haye as good au argumeut to offer as the 'double-i-isrs. We emphasize con- vemcnce and tmJurmily xxhich are really the most important mailers. This likewise has been iu use iu THE CONDOR the past year. 3. Trivial or common names of animals and plants, occurring in the text will hereafter be printed in lower case, except of course where a capital leter is obvionsly necessary, as in personal or geographic qualifying words; e.g., Caltforma towbee, Harris woadpecker, but spurred towbee. Geucric uames that have be- come popularly accepted trivial names, as jtttco, will likewise begin with a small letter. This rule is rather widely folloxved now in pub- lications, aud the added neatness given to a page is marked. In closing we might add that in annotated bird lists the trivial name is writ- ten essentially in an indepeudeut subjective form, and hence bears capitals; e.g. Pipilo maculatus megalonyx. Spurred Towhee. Tn CONDOR publishes, as it' believes, the first half-tone photograph yet to appear of the famed wingless cormorant. Thus "the world do move" and the camera has portrayed to American ornithologists this strange bird which sports in die treacherous surf of the Galapagos. We regret the delay in mailing the index to Volume 1[I, wh!ch is uuavoidable. Mr. Rich- ard C. McGregor, who has been compiliug the index, issue by issue during the past year, found himself located in the Orient at the tme Onr last number was issued. This uecessita.ed the delay cousequeut npou the rime reqttu'ed for the mail to travel both wa 3s. The index will appear with onr March number. The CONDOR wishes its readers a Happy New Year aud greets them with o change of cover aad uew cover design, typifying the laud of the setting suu and its 1ord,y condor. The desigu is by Mr. Waiter K. Fsstier. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. PEARSON, T. GILBERT. Stories of Bird LiFe, B. F. johnsou Pub. Co., Richmond, Va. pp. 1-236 and nunlerous plates, 6o Cel12S. I{IDGWAY, ROBERT. The Birds of North aud Middle America. Part I. Family Friugillidae --lhe Finches. (Bulletin of theU 8. N.M. No. 5o, 19Ol. ROBISON, WIRT and RICHMOND, C.W. An Annota'.ed List of Birds Collected in the vicin- ity of LaGnaira, Venezuela. (Proc. U.S. N. M., XXiV, pp. 163-[78. ) ttttericatt Ornilhology, I, No. 12, Dec. i9Ol. H, No I, Jau. 19o2. ,qu, 7>te, Xix, No. I, Jan. 19o2. Pird-Lore, II[, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 19Ol. 13ird(JSNature, X, Nos. 4, 5. Nov., Dec., t9ot. ]3ullt'lin No 5o, U.S. Nat. Museum. ./ownal oJ'lhe A/aine Ornithological Socie/y, III, No. 4. Oct, 19ot. 3laitte Sortsman, Nos. 99, lOO, Nov., Dec. I9OL 2Valure XDtdy, II, No. 7, Dec. 19Ol. Ohio A.2zturalisl, II, Nos. I, 2. Nov. Dec. 19oL Oolqist, The XVIII, Nos. II, 12. Nov.-Dec., Ornithologisches.fahrbuch, XII, No. 6, Nov.- Dec. Osprey, Te, V, Nos. 9, IO. Sept., Oct., 19oi. Our tnimal Friends, XXIX, Nos. , 5. Dec. 19Ol, Jan., 1o2. Our Dumb .4nimals, XXXIV, Nos. 6, 7. Nov., Dec 1901. lUlant H/orld, IV, Nos. IO, I1. Oct., NOV., 19Ol. Popular Science XXXV, No. 2, Dee. I9OI. XXXVI, No. I, Jan. I9O2. Recrealion, XV, Nos. 5, 6. Nov, Dee, West .4merica Scientist, XII, Nos. 6, 7. Nov., Dec., 19Ol.