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CONDOR Vol. 226 THE CONDOI A b?agazirse of ?re?tern Ornithology, Publisked Bi-Monthly by the Cooper Ornitholoffic&l Club J. GRINNELL, Editor. Berkeley. Cudlfor?xis HARRY S. SWARTH, Assoeio, te Editor J. EUGENE LAW } Business Me, nafers W, LEE CHAMBEP. S Hollywood, California: Published Nov. 30, 1912 SUBSClklPTION RATES One Dollsr and Fifty Cents per Yesr in the United States, Canada, Mexico and U,S. Colonies, payable in advance Thirty Cents the single copy. One Dollsr snd Seventy-five Cents 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. Subscriptions and Exchsna?es should be sent to the Business Manager. Me?nuscripts for publicstion, and Books and P?pers for review, should be sent to the Editor. Advertisinf? Rates on application. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS With this, the l?st issue of the year, T,? CoN?o? concludes its fourteenth volume. Only one preceding volume (1908) has numbered more pages. As for quality of contents we leave the reader to judge. The point in mind is to suggest to all Cooper Club members as well as subscribers that their regular cash contributions are now payable.. Remember that early remittances save the Business Man- agers from much clerical labor. And this means that commensurately more attention can be given to ways and means for further growth. As for the Editors, their dream is to se- cure for the coming year the same high stand- ard of articles that have predominated in the present volume. We hope to be able to print illustrated life histories of as high merit as Rockwell's Barr Lake series. There are yet birds of unknown nesting habits.which should not be left for Ray alone to exploit! Authori- tative faunal lists in moderate proportion are of value as basis for the distributionist's studies. Above all, we invite "Field and aSnt ?dcY?n ?-istee ? rea tHroecruet. '?h ege, t,F?3QetaYn d ?t tu?], c , department is read by more people twice over than any other part of our magazine. This statement is based upon assurances from many sources. Reviews, communications, and matter for news notes all eo to make up the Editorial stock-in-trade. Practically all the material necessary to make a CoNnoR must come from the contributor at lar?re. There- fore let those Cooper Club members fortu- nately situated in respect to such .resources re- member the Editors early and often. Sanely administered conservation of natural resources is a much-to-be-desired consumma- tion. This cannot, however, be brought to a satisfactory realization until popular opinion is educated still farther beyond the primi- tive notion of "everything for today." Cer- tain phases of the bird-life of the west are disappearing at an alarming rate, far faster than is consequent upon .the settlement of the country. The proper restriction of hunting privileges must be legalized at once, if cer rain of our shore birds and ducks are to be saved at all. We would call serious atten? tion to these subjects as discussed in subse? quent columns of the present issue. The Club is fortunate in having so energetic an exponent of conservation as W. P. Taylor, chairman of the Northern Division commit- tee. It will require the combined efforts of very many of like industry and enthusiasm :o offset the influence of the eunner, when it comes to securing state legislation of an ef- fective sort. This we must obtain immediate- ly, or be compelled to witness the complete extermination of many of our native game birds. COMMUNI C?TIONS TI-tE BIRDS OF COLORADO Editor T.? CON?OR: Perhaps you will kindly allow me a few words in reply to Mr. W. W. Cooke's re- view of the "Present Status of the Colorado Check-list of Birds." I should like, however, first to thank you and all other of my Ameri- can ornithological friends for your kind re- ception of my recently published work on the Birds of Colorado. The time I. spent in Colo- rado was comparatively short, so that I was very ?uch dependent on my friends and cor- respondents for local observations; but I had the advantage of the very fine coilection of Colorado birds made by Mr. C. E. Aiken on which to base my descriptions, and in this way was able I hope to bring to light a good many new facts and at the same time to pro- Fare a work which will always be useful to the Colorado bird-lover. Mr. Cooke enumerates first of all thir- teen species included by me but not by him in his most recent list of Colorado birds(Auk, 1909, p. 400); of these he admits six as valid and rejects seven. In regard to these: Phalaenoptilus nuttalli nitidus. This spe cies I only retained in deference to the A. O. U. Check-List; I agree with Mr Cooke that it is probably only a color phase of P. nuttalli. Orecerts alpestris enthymia. I regard this species as a very doubtful one. I would not have recognized it had I been certain of the A. O. U. Committee's final decision in the matter; but the new edition of the Check-List did not appear till some time after my man- uscript was corrected, and I confess I over- looked the fact that Oberholser's subspecies was omitted.