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Another feature of the 1900 volume will l)e a list of the Birds of 

 Cedar Point, Ohio, which lies opi>osite Point Pelee. This list will 

 take the form of a comparative faunal list with frequent compari- 

 sons and comments relative to the two regions. It is believed that 

 this comparison and discussion will throw some light upon the phe- 

 nomena of migration as it occurs there and in adjoining regions. 



Mr, Frank L. Burns promises a continuance of his interesting 

 and valuable articles on Alexander Wilson. Few readers can ap- 

 preciate the great expense of time and the wide range of reading 

 which articles of this kind require. Most of us probably know very 

 little about the life of the Father of American Ornithology and of 

 the privations which were his in the preparation of his monumental 

 work on American birds. We have only to remember that his was 

 practically an untrodden field, and that interest in the birds needed 

 to be awakened, in order to get any picture of him in the working 

 out of his self-imposed taslv. Mr. Burns is enabling us to see Alex- 

 ander Wilson as a real man. 



There is involved in the editor's ideal for the Bulletin for 1909 the 

 publication in liberal quantity of field work results which will make 

 real contributions to our knowledge of the birds. Toward this end 

 he earnestly hopes that every reader will become a co-laborer in 

 making some definite study of some phase if bird-life, work tlie re 

 suits over for the purpose of determining if some contribution has 

 actually been made, and then without fail send it to the edito'- for 

 publication. If a large number of persons interested in the birds will 

 do something of this kind there is hope for large results. We are 

 supiwsed to be a cooperating organization. Let's prove it this coming 

 year. 



As hitherto, an Index to the present volume will be mailed with 

 the March number. It has not been possible to prejiare it to incor- 

 porate in the present number. 



FIELD NOTES. 

 Nesting of the Prairie Warbler in Ohio. — On .Tune ISth of this 

 year I found a nest of the Prairie Warbler with four young, in the 

 crotch of a small bush on a hillside near Bloom Switch. Scioto 

 County, Ohio. This is the first authentic record of its breeding in 

 the state, as I had onl.y seen it building its nest on Maj' 31. 1905, at 

 the same place, but had to leave before the nest was finished and 

 eggs were laid. W. F. IIenninger. ]\^eiv Bremen, Ohio. 



Result of a Hailstorm.— In July a violent hailstorm just before 

 dark at Boulder, Colorado, is reported to have destroyed in a single 



