THE WILSON BULLETIN 



Published at Oberlin, Ohio, by the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club and the Nebraska Ornithological Un- 

 ion 1 jn affil.ation). 



Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $1 50 a year, 50c a number, post paid. 

 Price in all countries in the International Union, $2.00 a year, 60c a number. Subscriptions 

 should be sent to Geo. L. Fordyce, Youngstown, Ohio. 



Additional comment on the annual meeting after the reading 

 of the report of that meeting by the Secretary seems almost super- 

 fluous. But the writer has followed the course of the Club from its 

 beginning, and he may, therefore, be permitted to remark that this 

 meeting left him with the conviction that whatever of uncertainty 

 there may have been in the past about the continued functioning 

 of the Club its future is now secure. Such a spirit of good fellow- 

 ship, mutual understanding of differing points of view, and such 

 earnestness in the work of accumulating facts relating to our 

 particular field of endeavor can mean nothing else than increas- 

 ing value of the results of our work. And let us begin now to 

 plan to make the next meeting better than our best so far. 



The creation of a board of cooperating editors was one of the 

 most significant and valuable actions of the last meeting. This 

 first number of the new volume illustrates this point. It not 

 only lightens the task of editing but insures material of a higher 

 character to choose from, and adds a more personal touch to our 

 journal. Each of these cooperating editors would ask for your 

 cooperation in securing material for publication. This is prob 

 ably even more true of the Secretary, upon whom falls the task 

 of preparing the more personal material. You would be doing 

 him a service of you would not wait for him to ask you for items 

 of interest, but would keep him informed of trips or journeys 

 which you have planned, or any such which you know others have 

 in contemplation. You would also be doing the readers of the 

 "Wilson Bulletin a service, because everybody wants to know what 

 is going on in the way of bird study. 



It M^as voted to advance the subscription price of the Wilson 

 Bulletin to $1.50 a year to non-members. All members, whether 

 Associate or otherwise, receive it free, if their membership dues 

 are paid up. This action was necessary because the cost of four 

 numbers exceeds a dollar, and because there is no immediate 

 prospect of any material reduction in the manufacturing costs in 

 the printer's trade. It is true that there has been a small decline 



