THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE WILSON ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB, AT CHICAGO, ILL. 

 Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, one dollar a year, 30 cents a 

 number, postpaid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, 

 $1.2.5 a year, 40 cents a number. Subscriptions should be sent to P. B. Coffin, 

 3232 Groveland Ave., Chicago, 111. 



OFFICERS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR 



President: Dr. T. C. Stephens, Morniugside, Sioux City, Iowa. 



Vice-president: Geo. L. Fordyce, Youngstown, Ohio. 



Secretary: Orpheus M. Schantz, 5215 West 24th St., Cicero, 111. 



Treasurer : P. B. Coffin, 3232 Groveland Ave., Chicago, 111. 



Editor "The Wilson Bulletin"; Lynds Jones, Spear Laboratory, Ober- 

 lin, Ohio. 



Business Manager: Edw. R. Ford, 1100 Great Northern Building, 

 Chicago, 111. 



EDITORIAL 



Remember the second annual meeting of tlie Wilson Ornithological 

 Club, which will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on December 29 and 30, 

 1914. The first opportunity for a gathering of ornithologists in the 

 central part of the United States was presented at the 1890 American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science held at Indianapolis. The 

 writer attended that meeting, where he met Mr. O. Widmann, Dr. B. W, 

 Evermann, Dr. A. W. Butler, Dr. Morris Gibbs and others. The next 

 opportunity was offered in February, 1914, at Chicago, when we met last 

 spring. We ought to make this tliird opportunity count big by planning 

 now to attend. 



In anticipation of the Chicago meeting, plan to present a paper. Send 

 the title to the chairman of the program committee, Lynds Jones, 

 Oberlin, Ohio, not later than December 1, but as soon as you can. Plan 

 to place these papers in the hands of the editor for publication in the 

 Wilson Bulletin, to be published after the meeting. 



