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Members of the Michigan Ornithological Club : 



With the present issue of the Bulletin the re-organized Michigan 

 Ornithological Club completes the first year of its existence. From the 

 many letters of congratulation received from prominent ornithologists 

 we feel that the Club has come to stay and likewise its official organ 

 and moreover that the efforts of its members during the past year 

 have not been spent in vain. 



Michigan being a great state and its members scattered over a large 

 area, it is impossible for all but a comparative few to attend the meet- 

 ing and receive the benefits for which the Club was organized. The 

 Bulletin is thus a necessity for the Club's existence and its function there- 

 fore to form a common means of communication and to publish original 

 ornithological matter pertaining to the region about the Great Lakes. 

 It is the hope of the editor that during the coming year the Bulletin will 

 more successfully fulfill its mission and that members will contribute 

 more freely. 



The prospects for 1904 are brighter than ever before, and we hope 

 that members will start in with renewed spirit to make the Club a 

 greater success — thus further extending our knowledge of our friends, 

 the birds. 



Washing you a happy and successful ornithological year, I am. 



Yours fraternally, 



(JUUJ^^^ 



NOTES FROM THE FIELD AND MUSEUM. 



ANOTHER PARASITIC JAEGER FROM MICHIGAN. 



A fine specimen of the Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), 

 female, was shot at Point Mouille, Mich., on November 27th, 1903, and 

 later received by Louis J. Eppinger, the Detroit taxidermist. This 

 makes the second authentic record of this wandering species for the 

 state. The first authentic specimen was taken at Otter Lake, Lapeer 

 county on Sept. 28th, 1897, and recorded by Prof. Walter B. Barrows 

 in this journal (Vol. I, No. 4, p. 47). 



Mr. Eppinger has mounted the former specimen and will present 

 it to the ornithological collection of the Detroit Museum of Art. 



Alexander W. Blain, Jr. 



Detroit, Mich. 



NESTING OF THE CARDINAL CROSBEAK IN INGHAM COUNTY, 



MICHIGAN. 



Each winter since 1899 onc or more Cardinals (C. cardinalis) have 

 wintered on the campus of the Agricultural College (in Lansing town- 

 ship. Ingham Co.), and have lingered until late spring. In the early 

 summer of 1902 one was seen several times, and during the winter fol- 



