Editorial. 71 



tributors to that number. If copy can be made ready for the print- 

 ers before the departure of the Editor everything can be in readiness 

 for the final make-up immediately upon his return. 



Members of The Wilson Ornithological Club will please take no- 

 tice that the address of our Treasurer, to whom all membership dues 

 should be sent, has been changed to Grosse Isle. Mich. Members will 

 also please report promptly to both the Secretary, Benj. T. Gault, 

 Glen EUy, 111., and to the Editor, any change in their address. Many 

 copies of the Bulletin are lost because changes in address are not 

 promptly reported. 



The Executive Council of The Wilson Ornithological Club have de- 

 cided upon and are now acting upon a plan whereby candidates for 

 membership must apply for membership to the Secretary, who will 

 see that they are properly brought before the active members at the 

 annual election of members. Hereafter the names of the officers will 

 be printed at the head of the editorial page so that names and ad- 

 dresses may be generally known. 



It is expected that with the beginning of the volume for 1008 the 

 Wilson Bulletin will be enlarged to 48 pages for each number, 

 more illustrations introduced, the general tone of the matter printed 

 in it of a higher quality, and the price advanced to one dollar a 

 year to persons not members of The Wilson Ornithological Club. 

 Advance subscriptions for 1908, which have already been received, 

 and subscriptions at the fifty cent rate for the year 1908, which are 

 received before December, 1907, will be honored for the 1908 volume 

 only. Membership dues will not be changed, and although Associate 

 members pay only fifty cents a year they will receive the Bulletin 

 without further charge. The Editor has many times been asked by 

 many persons how the Bulletin could be made to pay for it- 

 self at that subscription price. The secret is that it has never paid. 

 It has been maintained at a loss for the good of the cause, and he 

 feels certain that it has been a paying investment, however incon- 

 venient at tinies. The enlargement and advance in price are made 

 at the demands of readers of its pages and therefore clearly repre- 

 sents growth in appreciation of the value of bird study. Do you ap- 

 prove of the plan? Write. 



FIELD NOTES. 



Dickcissel {Spiza anicricaiia). in Wayne county, Mich. — In the 

 Wilson Bulletin, Vol. XII, No. 2, p. 06, and Vol. XIV, No. 1, p. 33, 



