THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds. 

 Official Organ of the Wilson OrnithologiciLl Club. 



Edited by LYNDS JONES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, AT OBERUN, OHIO. 



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

 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 fob 191.3 

 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. H. Fleming, Toronto, Ont. 



Editorial 



Because the summer work of the editor extended into the mid- 

 dle of September, and he was where it was not possible to pre- 

 pare copy for the present number of the Bulletin, there is this 

 delay in publication. 



The protracted illness of Mr. Swales and the absence from home 

 of most of the officers of the Club during the summer has pre- 

 vented the completion of arrangements for the proposed annual 

 meeting. The plan has not been abandoned, however, and will be 

 carried to completion in due time. Mean^^hile let there be expres- 

 sions of opinion a« to the best time and place from those who are 

 interested. 



The Thirty-first Annual Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union will be held at the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York City, November 11-13, 1913. At these Congresses 

 there are gathered many of the foremost ornithologists of Amer- 

 ica as well as many of those who do not consider themselves as 

 mudh more than interested spectators. It is worth while for 



