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 74 BULLETIN OF THE COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. BULLETIN of the Cooper Ornithological Club Published bi-monthly at Santa Clara, Cal., in the interests and as Official Organ of the Club. CHE--S'--RLOW, Santa Clar, Calf, Editor-in-Chief. HENRY REED TAYLOR, Alameda, Cal. HOWARD ROBERTSON, Box 55, Sta. A., Los Angeles, Asiates. DONALD A. COHEN, - Alameda, Cal., A. I. McCORMICK, Bradbury Block, Los Angeles, Cal, Business Managers. Subscription, (in advance) One Dollar a Year. Single Copies, - ...... 25 Cents. Six Copies or more of one issue, i2 Cents Each. Foreign Subscription, - - - : - - $I.2 5. Free to Honorary Members and to Active Members not in arrears for dues. Advertising rates will be sent on application. Advertisements and subscriptions should be sent to the Business Managers. Exchanges should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. Notes of interest and striking ornithological photo- graphs for illustration are solicited from members. When extra copies are desired, they should be ordered at the time of conmunicating the article. Write plainly and confine your article to one side of the sheet. Copyright 899, by the Cooper Ornithological Club, Entered at the Santa Clara Post-office as second class matter, This issue of the Bulletin was mailed July x4. EDITORIAL NOTES. The agitatiou of the question of bird protec- tion iu the last BULLETIN has been productive of numerous words of good cheer from all sides, which unanimity of opinion is gratifying in the extreme. We have the assurance from one of the gentlemen referred to as having in- dulged in unlimited collecting that no more such work will be done by him and that he be- lieves he collected beyond the limit of scien- tific requirements, and his frank statement will claim the admiration of all who respect an example of sterling manhood. The sentiment has been unanimous that Promiscuous collect- ing during the breeding season is wholly a question of principle and can have no defense in-so-far as connecting it with the extermina- tion of the birds is concerned. The letters re- ceived have been largely froin practical orni- thologists, and if they may be taken as indicat- ing the feeling of ornithologists generally, the BI, LLETIN has sounded the key-note of bird protection. The dread of the ultra-sentimentalists seenis to inspire all active workers, and there ap- pears a desire to eliminate them from the ranks of the true protectionists. As there was no dissenting voice raised the BULLETIN has omitted publishing the numerous letters re  ceived as their sentiment was but a repetition of the stand taken. A communication froin Mr. Richard C. McGregor will be found else- where dealing with the matter of collecting, under the caption "Circumstances Alter Cas- es," and several views are presented which may be considered to advantage, although they may not be intended to apply to the position we have taken. A pamphlet has been issued by the Penusyl- ' vania Audubon Society through the efforts of Mr. Witruer Stone, Chairman of the A. O. U. Bird Protection Committee, addressed to young bird students, in which they are taught that a personal collection of common local birds is unnecessary to scientific advancement and au effort is made to counteract "the effect of the advice of egg dealers and traders, who seem bent upon developing our budding students into 'egg hogs' instead of ornitholog sts. The pamphlet' is one of the most practical ones in point of reason and good advice which has been issued and Mr. Stone has shorn it of any nnnecessary sentiment. Through an iuadvertency in our last issue on page SO, the "Notes from Alameda, Cal.," were not credited. They were contributed by Mr. Donald A. Cohen of Alameda, Cal. In the Proceedings of the Biological So- ciety of Washington (Vol. XIII, pp. -4 _, May g9, I899 Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood of the Cooper Club submits a paper ou "Chama'a as- ciata and its Subspecies." Mr. Osgood fiuds that the Wren-Tit (Chaintea fasciata and the Pallid Wren-Tit (C. henshawl) are synonom- ous and it becomes necessary to provide a new name for the northern coast form "heretofore assumed to be typicaljzsciata." Accordingly, the Pallid Wren-Tit (Chamcea ./sciata) is as- signed to the "southern coast and interior of California, including coast valleys and foot- hills from San Francisco Bay south to north- eru Lower California; interior valleys and slopes north to head of the Sacramento Valley; upper Sonoran zone." For the rim'them coast form is proposed the name of Chainare f._zsciata phca, or Coast Wren-Tit, with the following habitat: "Coast of Oregon and California froin Astoria to Nicasio. Transition zone." IR. W. B. JUDSON of Los Angeles, now lo- cated at Dawson City, N. W. T., writes:--"I have done practically no collecting since I left Los Angeles in February I898. I saw about twenty nests of the Bald Eagle with the birds about them at Wrangel and at the mouth of the Stickcert. I fonnd several nests of the Three-toed Woodpecker at the lakes after leav- ing Glenora on the last of May, but all had young nearly ready to fly. I have seen a couple of Hawk Owls and a few small birds in the fall, but there are no birds here at present, (March) excepting ravens, chieadees and jays. Also a few ptarmigan and grouse. I have put up one skin since I came in." Mr. Judson speaks doubtfully of mining interests about Dawson City.