42 THE WILSON QUARTERLY. 



the Jiincos. Already the first volume is in press and will 

 be ready for distribution by Sept. next. It contains 414 

 pages of text, with index, etc., making the whole volume 

 about 450 pages. Samples of the text may be found in the 

 Forest and Stream, of Jan. 14, and Feb. 25, 1892, on Gamble's 

 Partridge and Bald Eagle. All should be interested to con- 

 tribute notes toward this work. 



Any one who contemplates entering upon any work 

 should ask himself: "Of what benefit will it be to me? Will 

 it pay for the effort expended upon it?" If, after careful 

 consideration, he decides to undertake it, he may reason- 

 ably expect that he shall receive interest upon whatever 

 capital he may have put into it, provided he exert himself 

 sufficiently to make it bear interest. 



Many who contemplate entering into the w^ork of any or- 

 ganization like the AVilson Chapter, may ask : " In what lies 

 the advantage of membership in this over any other simi- 

 lar organization ? Is there any advantage ? " We do not 

 presume to say in regard to the Wilson Chapter. Very 

 likely it presents no advantages over other similar organi- 

 zations. Its method is simply co-operation in study. Those 

 who constitute the organization largely determine, each 

 one for himself, the value of the organization as an aid in 

 the study of our favorite science. Each worker has the 

 advantage of becoming acquainted with the results of the 

 work of all the others, and better than that, with the methods 

 of work of each one. The best work is always systematized. 

 If each of us will give careful attention to the forth-coming 

 reports upon the various groups of birds, and to all that 

 have been presented, we shall be able to select fron each 

 one some points of excellence which may enter into our 

 own method and be of value to us. 



A great advantage of our work is that it extends over a 

 very large area — from Canada to Florida, California, and 

 Minnesota. Not all, indeed, very few, of the intervening 

 places are now represented, especialy the west and north; 

 but these extremes always give us the extremes of varia- 

 tion. As new members come in, filling up the centre, as 



