Bulletin No. 16. 65 



In another place members will find the announcement for the annual 

 election of officers for the coming year, and a list of names presented 

 for membership. Let it be the duty of every active member to cast 

 his vote in this election. The encouragement you will thus give to 

 the officers will result in great good to the Chapter. 



There is great need of a larger list of associate members. If you 

 have a friend, acquaintance or correspondent who is not now a member, 

 but whose interest in the birds is more than transient, invite him to 

 become a member. We need his help, and we may be of service to him. 



The roosting habits of birds deserve more' notice in print than they 

 have received. It must be true that many birds have been noticed 

 going to roost, or have been flushed from their roosting places at twilight 

 or during the night, perchance even seen to leave their nocturnal retreat 

 at dawn, yet how few even casual references can be found in current 

 literature. Can we not have a symposium of roosting habits in which each 

 member shall briefly give whatever he may have noticed, even casually, 

 about this subject ? The editor would be delighted to receive brief notes 

 about the roosting habits of any and all species. Notes like these are 

 interesting: "A company of fifty or more Meadowlarks was seen to 

 enter a clover meadow and disappear under the clover, at twilight." 

 " Frightened a dozen Flickers from a thicket of prickley ash, half an 

 hour after sunset." "Watched a solitary Tufted Tit go to bed under a 

 huge leaf." Such notes show what the birds do at night. Will you not 

 send the editor at once a few such short notes ? They may be longer if 

 you can spare the time to make them so. 



One of the most encouraging "signs of the times" is ihe general 

 awakening of the public to the pleasures and profits of bird study. Is 

 it because that interloper, the English Sparrow, everywhere and at all 

 times obtrudes himself upon the people's notice, or is it the intrinsic 

 value of the birds in leading us to see more in life than material wealth ? 

 With only a little knowledge of nature, how much more the short walk 

 for exercise, or the run into the country, or the daily drive, means to us 

 and brings to us. Even though we may never wish to touch the deeper 

 problems of the bird's life, we are led to an appreciation of all nature 

 through them that will make our lives fuller and more pleasant. Blind 

 eyes and deaf ears, among a race as active as ours in the ways of trade, 

 may well be made to see and hear what there is for them in the world's 

 wide range of natural objects which cannot be turned into gold, but 

 which will lift the race to a higher plane of living and striving. 



