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 84 THE CONDOR VOL. VII THE CONDOIZ An IllusrMed Maazlne of WesFern OrnDholoSy Published Bl-monhly by he Cooper Ornlholoi- eal Club of California WALTEI K. FIHEI, Editor, Palo Afro JOSEPH OII['I['IELL, Business Manager and Associate Editor, Pasadena 1. E. fiHODOIP-Afi, WILLIAM L. FIHLE, Associate Editors Palo AIo, California: Publisbed May ! 5, 1905 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Price in the United States, Canada, Mexico and U.S. olonies one dollar a year single copies twenty-five cents. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union one dollar and a quarter a year. Subscriptions should be sent to the Business Manager; manuscripts and exchanges to the Editor. EDITORIAL NOTES ATTENTION is called to Mr. Mailliard's re- quest for information concerning the win- ter distribution of the western robin Letters have already been sent to a number of members and the notes are published on another page. Since the robin is known to everyone, all readers, who can shed any light on the pro- blem of the movement of robins during the past winter, should send in their notes. Nega- tive information is valuable. Please state whether robins are usually present in your lo- cality and whether common or rare;also include any other information concerning unusual birds during the past winter, or absence of ordinarily common species. The following letter from Prof. Ritter bears directly upon this matter, so that further remarks are unnecessary. Berkeley, Cal., March co, I9o 5. DEAR MR. MAILLIARD: Since the meeting at Miss Head's Saturday .evening I have been thinking over the matter raised by Dr. Stejneger's paper, and it has oc- curred to me in a quite positive way that the Cooper Club has ust now an admirable oppor- tunity to take in hand an investigation that would be exactly in line with Steneger's sug- gestions. I refer to the question of the behav- ior of the winter birds this year, and the bear- ing of this on the broader problem of bird mi- gration. If it is really true, as it seems to be, that the western robin, varied thrush, pipit, and some other birds, have not come to this region this winter because the conditions have not been such as to induce them to, it is a genuine- ly interesting fact, and ought to be carefully looked into. Have the birds remained on their nesting grounds, or have they gone to some other locality than that which they are accustomed to visit in winter? In either case they would appear to have departed from their usual habit, and if so, this is a fact of prime importance from the point of view of the migratory in- stinct. I would suggest that two lines of in- quiry be taken up at once. In the first place that letters be addressed to all members of the Club in localities ordinarily frequented by the birds in winter, to find whether they have been as scarce at all these as they have been in the San Francisco Bay region. In the second place, that somebody be sent, if possible, to the mountains where the western robin, for in- stance, breeds, to ascertain if it has remained there through the winter, and if so, what the peculiar conditions have been. Very truly yours, W. E. RITTER. UR series of portraits is continued in the present issue with likenesses of Count T. Salvadori, Dr. Anton Reichenow, Dr. Otto Finsch, and Mr.H.E. Dresser. Among Count Tommaso Salvadori's works may be noted the following: Prodromus Or- nithologite Papuasiae et Moluccarum, Ornito- logia delle Papuasia e Molluche (3 vols. and ap- pendix),Uccelli di Borneo (first published in Annali Mus. Civ. Genova, 874-75); and of the British Museum Catalogues: vol. XX, Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots; XXI, Catalogue of the Columbe or Pigeons; XXVII, Catalogue of the Chenomorphte (Palemedeae, Phcenicopteri, Anseres), Crypturi, and Ratitee. In 887 ap- peared Elenco degli Uccelli Italiani. He has named between 5o0 and 600 genera and species, of which lrachyrhamphus craz,eri is one. Dr. Anton Reichenow, editor of the Journal fker Ornitholoie and the Ornilholoisches W[onatsberichl, has published many papers in these journals, and elsewhere. The Conspectus Psittaeorum appeared in the former. Die Voegel Deutseh-Oest-Afrikas, quarto, was pub- lished in x894, and Die Voegel Afrikas, two vol- umes and part of the third of which have al- ready been published, is not yet completed. Dr. Otto Finseh has been an extensive trav- eler. Hevisited the United States,July--Decem- ber I872, northwest Siberia, March - November, I876, South Sea Islands, April I879--November 882 and June 884--August I885, and New Guinea, towhieh he made six trips in I884 and '85. In I899 he published his Systematisehe Uebersicht der Ergebnisse seiner Reisen and Schriftstellerischen Thaetigkeit (x859-899), which lists 384 titles covering a wide range of subjects besides ornithology. He has written Die Papageien (2 vols. I867-'68), Index ad Caro- li Luciani Bonaparte Conspectus Generum Avium (I865), Beltrag zur Fauna Centralpoly- nesiens: Ornithologie der Viti - Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln (with Hartlaub, I867), Die Voegel Oest-Afrikas (with Hartlaub I87O), besides num- erous other longer and shorter papers in Notes from the Leyden Museum, P. Z. S., ]bis, Jour. f. Ornilhologie, etc. Dr. Finseh has described I4 genera and I55 species of birds, and has a genus and 41 species in zoology and botany named in his honor. Mr. Henry Eeles Dresser's best known works are: History of the Birds of Europe (8 vols., text and 8 of plates), Monograph of the Bee- eaters, Monograph of the Rollers, List of the Birds of Europe, Reprint of Eversmann's 'Addenda' (3 parts), besides numerous shorter papers. In The ]bis, I865 and I866, was pub- lished Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas.