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 

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

 Burns. Berwyn, Penn. 



Officers of the Wilson ORNiTHOLOGicAii Club foe 1913 

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

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

 Secretary — C. "W. G. Eifrig, Addison, III. 

 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 



The increasing interest shown in the nesting behavior of birds 

 and the considerable attention given to studies of this sort are 

 indications of a rapid increase in our knowledge of the birds in 

 this important field of inquiry. As the data accumulate and gen- 

 eralizations from them become more and more reliable we predict 

 that lig'ht will be thrown on a number of problems which now seem 

 all but hopeless of solution. We hope that the number of compe- 

 tent students of nesting activities will greatly increase the coming 

 summer. 







The editor enjoyed the thirty-first stated meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union which was held in New York City No- 

 vember 11-14, at the American Museum of Natural History. In 

 some respects it was the best meeting whidh he has been privileged 

 to attend. A larger number of Fellows were in attendance than 

 ever before and the attendance of out-of-town members was grati- 

 fying. We were pleased to welcome several, for whom this was 

 their first meeting. There should be a much larger attendance 

 every year. Toward this end it is proposed to hold the 1914 meet- 



