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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 dollara year, 30 cents a number. post- 
paid. Price in all countries in the International Postal Union, $1.25 a year, 40 cents 
anumber. Subscriptions may be sent to Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, or to Mr. Frank L. 
i Burns, Berwyn, Penn. 
Officers of the Wilson Ornithological Club for 1911: 
President—Frank L. Burns, Berwyn, Pa. 
Vice-President—W. EH. Saunders, London, Ont. 
Secretary—Benj. T. Gault, Glenn Ellyn, Ill. 
Treasurer—W. IF. Henninger, New Bremen, Ohio. 
Members of the Dxecutive Council—Lynds Jones, Oberlin, O.; H. 
C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C.; B. H. Swales. Grosse Isle, Mich. 
Editorial 
Before the next issue of the Bulletin finds its way into the 
mails there will have passed the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
founding of the organization out of which our Club grew. On 
May 30, 1886, there was drawn up by one L. Otley Pinder, a con- 
stitution of the Young Ornithologists Association. Whatever of 
publication was done in the first years of the organization ap- 
peared in the pages of the old “Oologist.” Then “The Curlew ” 
spread its pinions—and died. Next the “Ornithologists and Oolo- 
gists Semi-Annual” mothered the infant \organization under a 
changed name. Next the organization essayed two numbers of 
a quarterly (The Wilson Quarterly), found the burden too heavy, 
and the following year published two abbreviated numbers of a 
“Journal.” This was neap tide. Thus ended the “Old” order. 
Accomplishment—five yolumes of varying character—a rising and 
a falling tide. The “ New’ order was ushered in with three small, 
largely business, “ Bulletins,” followed the next year (1895) with 
