CONTENTS 



A Day with the Birds of a Hoosier Swamp 



By Barton Warren Evermann 169-174 



Keeping Field Records . . . By A. F. Gainer 175-177 



The Saving of a Pond, and the Resulting Bird List 



By Howard C. Brown 177-182 



Winter Birds About Washington, D. C. 



By W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble, and Alexander Wetmore 183-187 



Another Unusual Laying of the Flicker 



By B. R. Bales, M.D. 188-191 



General Notes 192-194- 



Bert Heald Bailey 195-197 



The Annual Meeting 198 



Index 199-208 



XHE \A/ILSOIN BULLEXIIN 



published quarterly, March, June, September, December, as the organ of 

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