downy woodpecker ; hairy woodpecker, scarce ; yellow- 

 bellied sapsucker ; belted kingfisher ; black-billed cuckoo, 

 scarce ; screech owl, rare ; barred owl, rare ; American osprey, 

 scarce ; sparrow hawk, rare ; pigeon hawk, rare ; broad-winged 

 hawk, rare ; red-shouldered hawk ; sharp-shinned hawk ; marsh 

 hawk; ruffed grouse; spotted sandpiper; solitary sandpiper, 

 scarce ; greater yellowlegs, rare, September 23-25, 1909 ; least 

 sandpiper, rare, August 23, 1904; Wilson's snipe, rare, Sep- 

 tember 14, 1910; American woodcock, rare; little green 

 heron, rare, May 16, 1900; great blue heron; black-crowned 

 night heron, rare ; American bittern, rare ; American golden- 

 eye ; wood duck, rare ; dusky duck ; hooded merganser, rare ; 

 American merganser, rare; Leach's petrel, rare, October 15, 

 1903 ; loon, rare. 



AS THE EDITOR SEES IT 



The bulletin is very late in appearing for financial reasons. 

 It should be published as soon as possible after the winter 

 meeting, but this is not possible unless the condition of the 

 treasury warrants the expenditure. The treasury condition 

 depends on whether you and I and all the rest pay our dues 

 promptly, and each year get a few new members to take the 

 places of those who drop out of the club through removal or 

 lack of interest. The publication of the bulletin would be sim- 

 plified if, at the annual meeting, the club should make a defi- 

 nite appropriation for that purpose, basing the appropriation 

 on the condition of the treasury at that time. If the funds are 

 inadequate the publication of the bulletin should be dispensed 

 with that year. Such a course would be regrettable, as the 

 bulletin is the only point of contact between the club and many 

 of its members, and its absence would result in an even greater 

 lack of interest. Far better would it be if each one of us 

 showed our loyalty by stimulating interest in the club and 

 keeping its active membership up to a level where there would 

 be no question of finance to delay or prevent the publication of 

 the bulletin. 



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