THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine De-roted to the Study of Living Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERUN, OHIO. 



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

 paid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, $1.25 a year, 40 cents 

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

 Burns, Berwyn, Penn. 



Officers of the Wilson Ornithological Cluh for 1908: 

 President, Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 

 Vice-President, R. L. Baird, Denmark, Iowa. 

 Secretary, Benj. T. Gault, Glenn Ellyn, 111. 

 Treasurer, Bradshaw H. Swales, Grosse He, Mich. 

 Members of the Executive Council : W. L. Dawson, Seattle, Wash. ; 

 J. W. Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa. ; H. C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



EDITORIAL. 



Copies of tliis Bulletin are sent to deliniiuent snbscril)ers in the 

 belief that they intend to renew. Tliis is the last time copies can be 

 sent without renewal, because of the recent postal laws. 



With tlie iiiaugurution of the new era of the Bulletin, and we 

 trust also of the Club, it is most titting that he for whom we are 

 named should occupy first place. This biographical sketch of a 

 single incident in the life of "The Father of American Ornithology" 

 is the first of a series by one who has devoted much time and care 

 to the subject, from an unpartisan view-point. We shall await the 

 appearance of succeeding chapters of this biography \\itli keen an- 

 ticipation. 



The last of the series of articles on "Tlie Birds of Point I'elee'' is 

 deferred to the June Bulletin. This will give the autliors an oppor- 

 tunity for one more season's study of the spring movements of the 

 bix'ds, and therefore add to the value of the list. The editor hopes 

 to follow this list with one or more articles correlating liird move- 

 ments on the Ohio shore with those at the Point. 



