188 THE CONDOR Vol. XIX THE CONDOR A Ma?azine of Western Ornithology Published Bi-MontMy by the Cooper Ornithological Club J. GRINNELL, Editor HARRY S. SWARTH, Associate Editor J. EUGENE LAW } Business Managers W. LEE CHAMBERS Hollywood, California: Publishod Doc. 7, 1917 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Year in the United States, l>ayable in advance. Thirty Cents the single copy. One Dollar and Seventy-five Cents per Year in all other countries in the International Postal Union. COOPER CLUB DUES Two Dollars per year for members residing in the United States. Two Dollars and Twenty-five Cents in all other countries. Manuscripts for publication, and Books and Papers for Review, should be sent to the Editor, J. Grinnell, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, California. Claims for missing or imperfect numbers should be made of the Business Manager, as addressed below, within thirty days of date of issue. Cooper Club Dues, Subscriptions to The Condor, and Exchanges, should be sent to the Business Manager. Address W. Lee Chambers, Business Manager, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County, California. EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS The editors of THE CONDOR are again in- debted to Mr. J. R. Pemberton, this time for the annual index which concludes the pres- ent issue. Mr. Pemberton has further vol- unteered to tackle the second ten-year index to THE CONDOR, which will be in order for preparation after tho end of 1918. In this connection the editors will welcome sugges- tions or expressions of opinion as to style and degree of comprehensiveness of the next index. Shall it conform closely to the style set by the first? During the past several years Mr. Lover- ett M. Loomis has been working almost con- tinuously on the extensive collections of tubinarine birds in the California Academy of Sciences. As a result he has now prac- tically completed a monograph of the group as existing throughout the world. This is to be published at once by the Academy, and its appearance may be confidently expected to throw much new light on the relation- ships of the American species. We learn through Mr. Alexander Wetmore that the manuscript for Volume VIII of Ridg- way's Birds of 1Vorth and Middle America is now ready for the press. This volume in- cludes the gulls and shore-birds, and will be welcomed as tho first systematic revision of theso groups for many years. Mr. Rollo H. Beck has returned to New York from his five-year term of field col- lecting in South America. He secured in all about 8000 bird skins, which have been add- ed to the Brewster-Sanford collections in the American Museum of Natural History. In the death of Evan Davis, who joined the Cooper Ornithological Club in 1894, the Club losos one of its oldest members, and the community in which he lived loses a highly respected citizen. Mr. Davis was al- ways a student and lover of birds. He own- ed a considerable collection of eggs, but his oological activity was limited by conscien- tious scruples against collecting on Sunday. He was a member of numerous fraternal or- ders, and for many years had been a promi- nent church worker. In recognition of his sterling qualities, the Cooper Ornithological Club has passod resolutions deploring the death of Mr. Davis as that of an earnest student and truo gentleman, whose place cannot be easily filled. The California Museum of Vertebrate Zo- ology has conducted field surveys this year in Inyo and Mono counties, extreme eastern California. As usual the birds have receiv- ed a large share of attention, and much new information has boen accumulated in regard to mode of occurrence and life habits. Coo- per Club members who participated in this work are: Joseph Dixon, Alfred C. Shelton, J. Grinnell, Halsted G. White and Tracy I. Storer. Mr. J. G. Tyler, author of Avifauna Num- ber 9, ?ome Birds of the Fresno District, California, has enlarged his field of study to take in the whole San Joaquin Valley. He is now working towards a fairly exhaus- tive treatise upon the "Birds of the San Joa- quin Valley" intended ultimately to be pub- lished in book form. Regional studies of this nature aro going far towards making knowledge of birds a widely popular posses- sion. MINUTES OF COOPER CLUB MEETINGS NORTHERN DIVISION AuGuST.--The regular meeting of the Northern Division of the Cooper Ornitholog- ical Club was held at the Museum of Verte- brate Zoology on August 16, at 8 P.M. President Evermann was in the chair, and the following members and friends were present: Messrs. Carriger, Grinnell, De Groot, Lastreto, Squires and Swarth; Mesdames Allen, Culver, Ferguson, Grin- nell, Kelley, Kibbe, Meade, Schlesinger, Swarth and Wythe; visitors: Miss Beatty,
