Bulletin No. 17. 77 



A close vote for members of the Executive Council makes it necessary 

 to defer announcement of that result. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Members of the Chapter : 



If you will look up the official reports for the last year you will find 

 that Mr. Jones had to contribute about twenty-three dollars toward the 

 expenses of publishing the Bulletin. In a personal letter Mr. Jones 

 informs me the deficit this year will be about forty dollars. We all 

 realize that it would be impossible for the Chapter to keep in existence 

 without some means of communication. The Bulletin furnishes the 

 means needed. As the membership dues are not enough to meet the 

 expense of publication, let us each contribute a little to make up the 

 present deficit, so as not to put the burden too much on one. Are we 

 not willing to blot from our account book this item ; " Contributed by the 

 editor of the Bulletin — forty dollars " ? Let us also try to secure a large 

 enough subscription list to make the Bulletin self-supporting. 



Fraternally, 



Milton Junction, Wis. G. M. Burdick. 



[Note. — The reason why this year's deficit will be larger than last 

 year's is, first, because we began last year with a little over seventeen 

 dollars on hand and, second, because this year a special Bulletin 

 has been issued, costing about ten dollars more than an ordinary 

 number. — Ed.] 



ERRATA. 



The following corrections should be made in the note on the breeding 

 of Ruby-throated Hummingbird, p. 62. In line two read "May 29, 

 1896," and in line eight read "May 29, 1887." 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Some Common Birds, by P. M. Silloway. The Editor Publishing 

 Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. In this volume, without the formality of a 



