THE WILSON BULLETIN. 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Living Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERLIN, OHIO. 



Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, .50 cents a year, 15 cents a number, post- 

 paid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, 65 cents a year, 20 cents 

 a number. Subscriptions may be sent to Lynds Jones, Oberlin. Ohio, or to Mr. Frank L. 

 Burns, Bei-wyn, Penn. 



EDITORIAL. 



The editor has received clippings from numerous papers which 

 indicate clearly that there are many alert students who are doing 

 good service in their own localities. It is not always possible to 

 acknowledge receipt of such remembrances, but the sender may be 

 certain that the editor appreciates these tokens, and is always 

 pleased to receive them. 



The field work which is just now suffering to be done is that re- 

 lating to the life of the birds. There is no lack of systematists and 

 bibliographers and students of color patterns, all of whom have 

 their places in any study of the birds, and there are hosts of those 

 who enjoy the birds and are enthusiastic in their quest for new fields 

 where new forms may be added to their acquaintance list, but the 

 dearth of those who are making a careful and systematic study 

 of the life of even a single species is all too apparent. The blanks 

 which accompany this number are an earnest appeal to all to en- 

 ter this field even though your foot never leaves the margin. It 

 is a broad field, and no one can hope to cover all of it, but to be 

 discouraged by its breadth would be like refusing to taste of the 

 delicious strawberries in a large field because you could not hope 

 to eat all of them! The pleasures to be found in this field of bird 

 study are just as certain as any. and promise larger returns. 



The flight of Snowy Owls, which has reached considerable pro- 

 portions in the eastern and middle sections of the country during 

 the past winter, when taken in connection with the phenomenally 

 warm, snow-free winter, assumes a character of great significance. 



