Michigan Ornithological Club 77 



Bulletin 



OF 1 THE 



fBMcbigan ©rnitbological Club 



A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE ORNITHOLOGY 

 OF THE GREAT LAKE REGION. 



ALEXANDER W. BLAIN, Jr. 



EDITOR, 



131 Elmwood Avenue, - Detroit, Mich. 



associates : 

 J. Claire Wood, - - - Detroit, Mich. 



Adolphe B. Covert, - - - Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Detroit, Mich., September, 1903. 



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editorial 



The papers on the Kirtland's Warbler promised to appear in this number 

 have been deferred to a later issue. Mr. Wood has since made a second trip 

 to Oscoda county in company with Prof. Reighard. 



The article on the Wild Pigeon, published in this issue, is one which 

 will be read with wide-spread interest. In a letter accompanying the Mms. 

 Mr. Purdy writes : "Some of this may sound strange to the younger ornith- 

 ologists, but I have only told too true a story as I saw it in those by-gone 

 clays." Dr. Moody's record, published elsewhere in this issue, probably 

 records one of the last specimens of this species which shall ever fly over the 

 Wolverine state. 



We regret to learn of the sudden death of Wilbur Clinton Knight of 

 the University of Wyoming on July 28, 1903, at the age of forty-five. Dr. 

 Knight was active in various branches of science, and will be remembered 

 by ornithologists as the author of "The Birds of Wyoming." 



On page 42 of the June issue we published a photo of two heron nests in 

 an ash tree at the "Clarkston Herony" — but we failed to note that the 

 picture also represented Mr. Bert Stowcll, of Pontiac, ninety-two feet from 

 tcrra-firma. The lower nest contained five eggs. 



