THE WILSON BULLETIN 



A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study of Birds. Official Or- 

 gan of the Wilson Ornithological Club 



Edited by LYNDS JONES 



PUBLISHED BY THE WILSON ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB, AT CHICAGO, ILL. 



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. P. B. 

 Coffin, 32.32 Groveland Avenue, Chicago, III. 



OFFICERS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR 



President : Dr. T. €. Stephens, Morningside, Sioux City, Iowa. 



Vice-president : Geo. L. Fordyce, Youngstown, Ohio. 



Secretary : Thos. L. Hanliinson, Charleston, 111. 



Treasurer : P. B. Coffin, 3232 Groveland Ave., Chicago, 111. 



Editor " The Wilson Bulletin " : Lynds Jones, Spear Laboratory, 

 Oberlin, Ohio. 



Business Manager: Gerard Alan Abbott, 1543 East 61st St., 

 Chicago, 111. 



EDITORIAL 



The lateness of the present number of the Wilson Bulletin is 

 due to the editor's absence from home from the 20th of June to the 

 14th of September. He was conducting a party of sixteen from 

 Chicago to Seattle, and from there up through Admiralty Inlet, 

 and out through the Straight of Juan de Fuca to Neah Bay, and 

 ^rom there out on the Pacific and down among the islands and on 

 the coast to Moclips. It was a camping trip, conducted as a sum- 

 mer class from Oberlin College. The sea life of the tide flats was 

 studied as well as the life of the primeval spruce, cedar and hem- 

 lock forests. The trip proved so successful, so enjoyable, and so 

 profitable that he proposes to organize a party for the same trip 

 next summer, to occupy the time between June 19 and July 29. 



The Bluebird, edited and published by Dr. Eugene Swope, Cin- 

 cinnati, is publishing a series of color plates of the eggs of North 

 American Water Birds in connection with articles from the pen of 

 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. The ten plates which are ready show the eggs 

 natural size, and the colors and markings reproduced with fidelity. 

 It is a valuable feature of this enterprising publication. 



