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a family reunion. We hope he has rested sufficiently from his ed- 

 itorial duties to take them up again with renewed vigor. 



Mr. George L. Fordyce of Young.stowu, O., reports the White- 

 winged Scoter and Whistling Swan, quite rare as Ohio Birds among 

 his list of 1909 spring migrants. . Mi-. Fordyce always finds a few 

 hours away from business to look up the rara avis. 



Any records of neAv winter birds in your region? Send them to 

 the Wilson Bulletin. 



Our Treasurer, Rev. W. F. Henninger, together with Professor 

 James S. Hine of the Ohio State University, is working up the 

 " Mammals of Ohio " under the auspices of the Ohio Academy of 

 Natural Science, to be imblished similar to Jones' Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Ohio. We hope our treasurer will not forget the birds al- 

 together. 



Norman A. Wood, our distinguished member, the discoverer of 

 the breeding haunts of Kirtland's Warbler, reports a splendid orni- 

 thological time in the fall of 1909 at Point Pelee, together with some 

 of our Michigan and Ontario men. The congenial taxidermist of 

 the U. of M. museum is always very much alive, careful and pains- 

 taking in all his work. 



How is THIS spring's migration of birds in your field of work? 

 Publish the results in the Wilson Bulletin! 



After the recent death of Mr. ('has. K. Worthen, of Warsaw, 111., 

 the well known ornithologist and dealer in mammal and bird skins 

 and eggs, the bird-skins, 7,000 in number, were bought up by two 

 members of our clul)* Dr. Jonathan L. Dwight, Jr., and James A. 

 Fleming. No doubt but that science will profit by this purchase. 



Did you know that of the nine General Articles in the January, 

 1910, "Auk" six were written by members of the Wilson Club? 

 And that of the thirty-four General Notes, ten were sent in by our 

 members? This shows the standing and work of our Club. 



Did you get any good photos of birds, nests and eggs in 1909? 

 If so, why not publish them in the Wilson Bulletin? w. f. h. 



Notes and News. 



Of his experiences among the coast islands of the lower Alaslian 

 Peninsula, during the spring, summer and early fall of 1909, in the 

 expedition so successfully conducted by himself, with the help of 

 one camp assistant, in the interests of the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology of- the University of California, Harry 'S. Swarth has this 

 to say, in part : Leaving Juneati on the morning of April 10, in a 

 28-foot launch of 7-foot beam, a long list of islands was visited in 

 addition to several points of interest on the mainland. And, al- 

 though working under the most unfavorable conditions, the net re- 

 sults were counted good, l)oth in the number and quality of 



