THE WILSON BULLETIN. 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Living Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilaon Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERLIX, OHIO. 



Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, 50 cents a year, 15 cents a number, postpaid 

 Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, 65 cents a year, 20 cents a number. 

 Subscriptions may be sent to Lynds Jones Oberlin, Ohio, or to Mr. Frank L. Burns, Ber- 

 wyn, Penn., or to Mr. John \V. Daniel, Jr., Washington, D. C. 



EDITORIAL. 



More and more local lists of birds are being called for by teach- 

 ers and others who are either trying to interest others in bird 

 study, or who are beginning that study themselves. The Wilson 

 Bulletin always welcomes local lists which have the marks of care- 

 ful preparation. If authors of such lists desire separates of their 

 lists, arrangements for such separates should be arranged for be- 

 fore the type is thrown down. 



For a summer "All Day" we suggest Saturday, July 1st. Such 

 a day will be well within the summer season when no southward 

 movement will likely have begun anywhere within the United 

 States, and will avoid the objection which has been felt to the 

 4th, when some people wish to celebrate in the good old fashion. 

 It will also give a glimpse of the summer population of your re- 

 gion. All such lists which are sent to the editor will be put into 

 tabular arrangement for the September Bulletin. 



The half tones which appear in this number are from photo- 

 graphs taken in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Mass. 



To the many kindly inquiries regarding the line of the editor's 

 study while he was at the University of Chicago he wishes to say 

 that it was specifically a careful study of the development of the 

 first down and the relation of that down to the first feather, a 

 feather always following a down and pushing the down out upon 

 its tip. Some may be interested to know that the recall from Chi- 

 cago to take up the work of Professor Albert A. Wright, who died 

 suddenly on April 3, has not made necessary the complete cessa- 

 tion of the University work. The editor has reasonable hope of 

 being able to complete the work begun before the summer. 



