BULLETIN No. 36 73 



Editorial. 



The next number will appear about the first of December. 

 It will be a Special Bulletin on the birds of Berwyn, Penna., a 

 bird census of a section one square mile in extent. The 

 promised stretch of an interesting episode in the life of Alex- 

 ander Wilson, has not been lost sight of; it will appear later. 

 Enough special and co-operative study matter has accumulated 

 to make several Special Bulletins a probability, and the Officers 

 and Committees of the W. O. C. will continue to collect data 

 with this object in view. Doubtless other schemes of co-op- 

 erative observation will unfold before the advent of another 

 season, as the interest seems commensurate to the outlay. We 

 would call the attention of our Active Members to the Presi- 

 dent's notice on another page. 



It should be a matter of congratulation to ornithologists 

 of moderate means, that a new edition of Audubon's Birds of 

 America is now contemplated, by Messrs. Haughton, Mifflin 

 & Co., the well known publishers of Boston. It is proposed 

 to produce a facsimile of the entire text of the rare and expen- 

 sive edition of 1840-44, by photographic process. We learn 

 that the encouragement received has not been all that had been 

 anticipated and that further interest must be shown in order to 

 insure the successful publication of this edition. It is to be 

 hoped that enough advance subscriptions will be received, and 

 instead of Audubon's being one of the most inaccessible of 

 works, the low price place it within the reach of all. 



Tne sale of the splendid collection of birds' eggs, nests and 

 skins, owned by Miss Jean Bell, Ridley Park, Penna., to Hon. 

 John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., removes from the 

 neighborhood the largest and finest private collection of North 

 American bird eggs in the world. 



868 species and subspecies are represented in the 30,000 

 eggs and 1000 nests. In thefoiming of this magniflcient collec- 

 tion, the following were purchased and absorbed intact; the collec- 

 tions of Josiah Hoopes, Isaac Reiff, Harry R. Jamison, Harry 

 G. Parker, and 1000 selected sets from Samuel B, Ladd, all of 



