THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Qu&rterly 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. 



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 Club for 1908 : 



President — Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Vice-President, R. L. Baird, Athens, Me. 



Secretary— Ben j. T. Gault, Glenn Ellyn, 111. 



Treasurer — Bi-adshaw H. Swales, Grosse Isle, Mich. 

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

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



EDITORIAL. 



We have no disposition to close this volume of the Bulletin with 

 a glorification resume of past achievements nor to look into the fu- 

 ture through rose-tinted glasses. We hope that the Bulletin has ap- 

 proved itself to all readers and has justified the increased subscrip- 

 tion price, and we confidently expect to give to 1909 readers more 

 pages, more illustrations, better matter, and stare at them with 

 fewer errors. The faults have been painfully evident to the editor 

 and seriously detract from the satisfaction he has felt in Avhat he 

 believes is improvement. The time at his disposal is so scanty that 

 he has been obliged to leave unfulfilled some cherished plans which 

 he expects to carry to fruition during the coming year. 



There will appear in the next volume a series of papers which will 

 cover the whole group of Falcones, possibly also covering the Vul- 

 tures. The papers will be well illustrated with a view to depicting 

 the recognition characters of each species, and brief life history 

 sketches will accompany comprehensive descriptions *of plumages. 

 These papers are to be presented in response to numerous requests 

 for something that will really make field identifications possible. 

 Notes along the lines indicated, relating to any species, will be wel- 

 comed. 



