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The Michigan Ornithological Club was organized in Detroit, 

 Feb. 13, 1903, to succeed an earlier similar organization which disbanded 

 about three years ago. The officers elected are : President, A. B. Covert, 

 Ann Arbor; Vice-President, Dr. Philip E. Moody, Detroit; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, Bradshaw H. Swales, Detroit. A bird protection Committee 

 was established, consisting of Edward Arnold, Chairman, Battle Creek ; 

 James B. Purdy, Plymouth ; and Prof. Walter B. Barrows, Agricultural 

 College; to act in conjunction with William Dutcher, Chairman of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union Bird Protection Committee. The Club 

 will publish a journal to be called the ' Bulletin of the Michigan Ornitho- 

 logical Club,' with A. W. Blain, Jr., as editor. It will be an illustrated 

 quarterly, devoted to the ornithology of the Great Lakes Region. One 

 of the purposes of the Club will be to secure more effective legal protec- 

 tion for the birds of Michigan. The Club has already about fifty mem- 

 bers, scattered throughout this and the adjoining States. Monthly 

 meetings will be held at Detroit, and an annual meeting at the same time 

 and place as the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Sciences. 



The second annual meeting of the Vermont Bird Club was held in 

 the Williams Science Hall in Burlington, January 16 and 17. Papers were 

 read by Mrs. E. B. Davenport on 'Birds of Mount Mansfield observed 

 between June 6 and July 31, 1902,' mentioning 75 species ; by Carleton D. 

 Howe, 'Some suggestions to the Vermont Bird Club'; by G. H.Ross, 

 ' Nesting of the Golden-crowned Kinglet,' an account of ten nests found 

 in Rutland County; by Miss M. M. Tuttle, 'Nesting of the Prairie 

 Horned Lark,' in Poultney, in March, 1902. Mrs. Davenport gave an 

 account of the last meeting of the A. O. U. ; Mr. Ross reported the 

 taking of a Barn Owl in Danby ; Prof. Votey reported the Red Phalarope 

 from Greenboro, and Mrs. Horton an albino Cuckoo from Brattleboro. 

 Twenty new members were added, increasing the membership to nearly 

 one hundred. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, Prof. G. H. Perkins, Burlington; Vice-President, C. D. Howe, 

 Essex Junction ; Secretary and Treasurer, G. H. Ross, Rvitland. Steps 

 are to be taken to secure an accurate list of the birds known to occur 

 in the State, with the object of publication. 



We regret to learn from the publishers (Dana Estes and Company, 

 Boston) that the publication of the new edition of Dr. Coues's ' Key to 

 North American Birds,' announced to appear in the spring of 1903 (see 

 Auk, XX, p. 97), is unavoidably deferred till the coming fall. 



'The Warbler' is the title of a new ornithological magazine, of which 

 the initial number (Vol. I, No. i) has just appeared. It is of royal octavo 

 size, and will be published bi-monthly, by the Mayflower Publishing 

 Company (John Lewis Childs, president), at Floral Park, N. Y., under the 

 editorship of the Rev. H. C Munson. ("Subscription price, 30 cents for 3 



