THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson Ornithological Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERLIN, OHIO. 



Price in the United States, Canada and Mexico, one dollar a year, 30 cents a number, post- 

 paid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, $1.25 a year, 40 cents 

 a number. Subscriptions may be sent to Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, or to Mr. Frank L. 

 Burns. Berwyn. Penn. 



Officers of the Wilson Ornithological Club for 1912 

 President — W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. 

 Vice-President — ^B. H. Swales, Grosse Isle, Mich. 

 Secretary— C. W. G. Eifrig, Addison, 111. 

 Treasurer — W. F. Henninger, New Bremen, Ohio. 

 Members of the Executive Council — Lynds Jones, Oberlin, O., Frank 

 L. Burns, Berwyn, Pa. ; .J. II. Fleming. Toronto, Ont. 



Editorial 



The editor will be away from 01)erlin from the last week in .June to 

 the middle of September. His address during that time will be Kelleys 

 Island, Ohio. He hopes that any important communications may reach 

 him before his departure for the summer work, and that commu- 

 nications addressed to him during his absence will bear the new 

 address. His work during the summer will be studies of the sum- 

 mer birds of the region, in which previous work has been done on 

 the migrations, followed by a further .study of the migrations. In 

 this work he will be assisted by students. 



We have received an interesting letter from our vice-president, 

 Mr. Bradshaw H. Swales, who is spending some time among the 

 islands off from Tampa Bay, Florida. Readers of the Bulletin 

 may expect to share with Mr. Swales the interesting experiences 

 of which his letter speaks. Our president, ]Mr. W. E. Saunders, is 

 also in the South Atlantic states on ornithological business. There 

 has lieen all too little work done in the south-eastern part of our 



