CONTENTS 



Purple Martins at St, Marks, Florida .... By John Williams 71 



Twenty-four Hours in a Black Skimmer Colony 



By B. R. Bales, M.D. 83 



New Subspecies of Lanius Ludovicianus . By Harry C. Oberholzer 87 



Birds From a Sick Man's Window . . . By W. Elmer Eckblaw 91 



The Lure of the Godwit By Gerard Alan Abbott 97 



A Nesting Place of American Long-Eared Owl . By Sidney E. Eckblaw 99 



Obituary 100 



Annual Meeting 101 



THE WILSON BULLETIN 



Published quarterly, March, June, September, December, as the organ 

 of the Wilson Ornithological Club and the Nebraska Ornithologists Union, 

 is edited by Dr. Lynds Jones. 



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The Officers of the Wilson Ornithological Club for the year 1917 are: 

 President — Prof. Myron H. Swenk, 1410 37th St., Lincoln, Neb. 

 Vice-President — George L. Fordyce, Youngstown, O. 

 Secretary — Albert F. Ganier, 1221 17th Ave. So., Nashville, Tenn. 

 Treasurer— Frank M. Phelps, 212 East 4th St., Elyria, O. 

 Business Manager — George L. Fordyce, Youngstown, O. 

 Editor Wilson Bulletin — Lynds Jones, Spear Laboratory, Oberlin, O. 



Entered as Second-class Matter, July 13, 1916, at the Post Office at Oberlin, 

 Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



