THE WILSON BULLETIN. 



A Quarterly Mag&zine 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. 



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EDITORIAL. 



This Issue of the Bulletin will follow some of you to the field 

 of your summer outing, and will find others in the midst of prepa- 

 rations for carrying out the plans for the summer. To such, and 

 to all, we wish to offer this word of greeting, and this expression of 

 the hope that the summer may be full of all best things. May one 

 of the best things be some new information of the lives of some 

 birds. 



Studies of the birds in the summer are not usuallj" pursued with 

 the vigor which is given to studies of the migrations, because or 

 the natural difficulties which summer conditions present. It is for 

 that reason that we" urge more persistent study on the part of all 

 during this time. Did you ever notice that most of our bird litera- 

 ture is either strangely silent or at least very general in statements 

 about the summer habits of most birds? The summer field is such 

 an untrodden one that one cannot enter it without the assurance 

 that new facts await him. Surprises quite as exciting as any 

 which the migrations bring await the summer student of the birds 

 Plan your work for it this once. 



Tlie editor spent a delightful three days with Dr. W. E. D. 

 Scott and his family of birds at the newly established Worthington 

 Society for the Investigation of Bird Life, at Shawnee-on-Delawart. 

 early in May. He never before saw our native birds so thoroug-hiv 

 contented and normal in their captivity that it was impossible to 

 tell the captives from the wild birds which alighted upon the cages. 



