. Bird-lore . irds of TillamookCounty, Oregon, is contributed byjewett,based on observations made on eightyspecies during the last three years. Howell contributes to the discussion ofvernacular names a short note in the formof an objection to the term AudubonCanyon Wren as a substitute for DottedCanyon Wren. He suggests instead thename Ridgways Canyon Wren, in honorof the describer, with the explanationwhy not be uniform and call the birdseither after the describer, or as thosegentlemen intended they should benamed. Under the caption The New Museum ofComparative Oology, Dawson outlinesan ambit
. Bird-lore . irds of TillamookCounty, Oregon, is contributed byjewett,based on observations made on eightyspecies during the last three years. Howell contributes to the discussion ofvernacular names a short note in the formof an objection to the term AudubonCanyon Wren as a substitute for DottedCanyon Wren. He suggests instead thename Ridgways Canyon Wren, in honorof the describer, with the explanationwhy not be uniform and call the birdseither after the describer, or as thosegentlemen intended they should benamed. Under the caption The New Museum ofComparative Oology, Dawson outlinesan ambitious plan for a museum at SantaBarbara, Calif., which while giving specialattention to Oology will be devoted to theadvancement of ornithology in its broadestsense. The keynote of the new institutionis cooperation and the plan which mayrequire twenty-five years for its realizationcalls for the construction of buildingswhich will cost $150,000 and an endow-ment fund of over half a million dollars.—•T, S. WELLS W. COOKE (i88) Editorials 189 A Bi-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES Edited by FRANK M. CHAPMAN WRIGHT Published by D. APPLETON & CO. Vol. XVIII Published June No. 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Price in the United States. Canada and Mexico, twenty centsa number, one dollar a year, postage paid. COPYRIGHTED, 1916, BY FRA>rK M. CHAPMAN Bird-Lores ^^otto:A Bird in the Bush Is Worth Tu-o in the Hand WELLS \V. COOKE 1858-1916 In the death of Wells W. Cooke atWashington, March 30, 1916, following anattack of pneumonia, not only his immedi-ate friends and associates, but hundredswho knew him only by correspendence,experienced a deep sense of personal }- no professional ornithologist hadestablished closer relations between him-self and amateur observers throughoutthe country than Professor Cooke. Hewas the father of the cooperative studyof bird-migration in Ameri
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