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 Sept., 9o6 ! NOTES AND NEWS xJX THE CONDOI An Illustrated Magazine of Western Ornltholog7 Published Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornithologl- cal Club of California- JOSEPH GRINNELL, Editor, Pu.sdenu. H. T, CLIFTON, Business Msnsger, Box 404, Passdens WILLIAM L. FINLEY } AssociaAe Editors KOBT. E. SNODGR. ASS Pasadena, California: Published Sept. 17, 1906 SUBSCIklPTION RATES One !)ollsr per Year in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and U. S. olonies, payable in advance. Twenty CeRts the single copy. One Dollar and a. 0uarter per Year in all other countries in the International Postal Union Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made within thirty days of date of issue, Subscriptloxs should be sent to the Business Manager. M.nuscripts and Exchanges should be scut to the Editor. Advertising Rates on application. NOTES AND NEWS. Thru the energetic efforts of Miss Bertha hapman the Bryant collection of birds has been secured by popular subscription for the public schools of Oakland. There were 420 splendidly mounted specimens, together with a number of study skins and eggs. The price paid was not given out, but we venture to sur- mise it to have been in the near neighborhood of one thousand dollars. Messrs. Finley and Bohlman returned early in July to their homes in Portland, Oregon. Altho their seasoWs work in southern Cali- fornia was considerably shortened owing to the accident to Finley, they were successfil in ob- taining what is probably the rarest series of bird photos ever captured. We are not at lib- erty to make further announcements now, but will have more satisfactory information for our readers in our next issue. Watch for the No- vember CONDOR ! Col. L. L. Hawkins, but recently become a member of the Cooper Club, died at Portland, Oregon, March xx, x9o6. He was a life-long lover of nature, but had never restricted him- self to any one field. His chief pleasure was derived from contributing to the interest of others in natural history. With that end in view he had founded a valuable museum in Portland. Mr. J. Eugene Law spent the greater part of August at Camp Agassiz extending his ac- quaintance among the birds of the Tahoe region. Mr. P. B. Peabody wishes to extend cordial thanks to those who responded to his appeal for. information in our May issue. He reports "Nesting Ways" to be growing apace t but there are still many species on his query list to learn about. Mr. Peabody has removed to Blue Rapids, Kansas, aud will be glad to have cor- respondents address him there hereafter. Mr. Edward R. Warren, of Colorado Spriugs, spent the latter half of August camera-hunting in the Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Milton S. Ray recently interviewed one of the lighthouse keepers just in from the Farallones. He reports the April earthquake to have been severe on the Islands, the effect being to somewhat disturb the location of the bird rookeries. (See Emerson, CONDOR VI, May 9o4, pp. 6-68.) At Great Murre Cave much of the over-hanging rock fell down rais- ing the floor many feet and changing its whole aspect. The cave under Light Tower Peak has been closed up by the falltug debris; and an immense amount of rock fell down at West End. The light tower was practically unharmed, however. In The fourhal of lhe Jaine Ornilholog'ical Society for June appears a photograph remark- able even now in the day of so much clever bird photography. It is a profile view of a song sparrow in the act of delivering "his most rollicking melody." Two things observ- able are that the tongue is entirelyhidden altho the mandibles are widely apart, and that the throat is not prodigiously distended. These points should be kept in mind by some of our artists. Thru! Mr. John E. Thayer we learn that W. W. Brown has returned safely from a partially successful visit to Guadalupe Island, Lower California. He filed to find the cars- cars, towhee, and wren (7Fhryomanes), peculiar to the island. This arouses the fear that these species are gone forever. Mr. O. W. Howard spent the past summer in the Mr. Whitney region of the Sierras, where he obtained many rare nests in situ. These were displayed at the August Southern Division meeting. Many were the comments in praise of the energy and ingenuity required to accom- plish such perfect results. The nests were transported home practically unruffled, together with a large portion of the immediate surround- ings. Such a collection is vastly more in- structive than the accumulation of eggs alone, or of these with the bare nests, often mere frag- ments. Mr. Edmund Heller recently returned from