THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERLIN, OHIO. 



Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, one dollar a year, 30 cents a number, post- 

 paid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, $1.25 a year, 40 cents 

 a number. Subscriptions may be sent to Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, or to Mr. Frank L. 

 Burns. Berwyn. Penn. 



Officers of the Wilson Ornithological Club for 1912 

 President — W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. 

 Vice-President — ^B. H. Swales, Grosse Isle, Mich. 

 Secretary— C. W. G. Eifrig, Addison, 111. 

 Treasurer — W. F. Henniuger, New Bremen, Ohio. 

 Members of the Executive Council — Lynds Jones, Oberlin, O., Frank 

 L. Burns, Berwyn. Pa :.J. H. Flemming, Toronto. Ont. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



Cassinia. — A Bird Annual. Proceedings of the Delaware Val- 

 ley Ornithological Club of Philadelphia. 1911. Issued February, 

 1912. 



This annual always brings to us the best that the Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club has done in the twelvemonth, accom- 

 panied by a bibliography of the region which the Club covers, 

 taken from other publications. This number opens with a por- 

 trait of Constantine S. Ratinesque and a paper on 'his life ; then 

 follow six papers dealing with local matters, and matters of gen- 

 eral interest, a short paper on Alexander Lawson, who was Alex- 

 ander Wilson's engraver, then the regular " Report of the Spring 

 Migration of 1911, compiled by Witmer Stone." "Cassinia" is 

 always warmly received. L. J. 



Bird-Lore. — The July-August number contains a colored front- 

 ispiece of Abert's and California Towhee, and the winter and 

 sunimer phases of the Canon Towhee, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 

 In line with the avowed office of this magazine, the first article 

 is "A List of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and Herbaceous Plants Native 

 to New England, Bearing Fruit or Seeds Attractive to birds," by 



