THE WILSON BULLETIN. 



A Quarterly Mag&zine Devoted to the Study of Living Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBI.ISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERLIN, OHIO. 



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

 paid. 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. 

 Bums, Berwyn, Penn. 



EDITORIAL. 



The editor desires to especially commend to you the calls which Mr. 

 Frank L. Burns makes for assistance elsewhere in this issue. No words 

 of mine are needed to add to the assurance that whatever aid may be given 

 to Mr. Burns will be properly credited and used in the most effective man- 

 ner, for the report on the Crow and the Monograph of the Flicker amply 

 attest what he can do with any material which may come into his hands. 

 I am certain that contributions for this cause will rebound to the credt 

 of the contributor. Don't delay. Get what notes you now have ready at 

 once and send them in, and plan for the collection of more and better 

 notes in the year that is before you. 



Letters from many places in the middle west indicate a marked 

 scarcity of many of the common winter birds. In Ohio this scarcity has 

 been so marked that usually unobservant editors of local papers have 

 remarked upon it n their columns. There appears to be no good reason 

 for this scarcity n ilocal conditions nor in the character of the season. 

 Food of nearly all kinds seems to be in the usual quantities. It would be 

 very interesting to gather notes upon the condition of the bird faunas of 

 the whole country for comparson to determine if there is any general 

 diminution of numbers, or if there are particularly favored and particularly 

 unfavored regions. The editor would be glad to receive such reports for 

 study, correlation, and report in the Bulletin. 



The editor's attention has ben called to his article in the last number of 

 the Bulletin regarding the list of Birds of Cleveland and his own ob- 

 servations in Erie County, Ohio, and he is glad to make corrections at 



