Bulletin 



OF THE 



flDicbigan ©rnitbological Club 



A QUARTERI^Y MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE ORNITHOLOGY 

 OF THE GREAT LAKE REGION. 



ALEXANDER W. BLAIN, Jr. 



EDITOR. 



131 Elmwood Avenue, - Detroit, Mich. 



ASSOCIATES : 



Walter B. Barrows, - Agricultural College, Mich. 

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



Detroit, Mich., December, 1904. 



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editorial 



Friends, the work of another year is finished, completing the fifth volume 

 of the Bulletin. Little need be said lof the past. More ornithological work 

 has probably been accomplished during 3 904 than has ever been done in the 

 state before in the same length of time. The publication of the work of 

 Wood, Arnold and Frothingham in Oscoda and surrounding counties deserves 

 special notice. Barrows' work on the Birds of Michigan has been prepared 

 for the press. The Michigan Audubon Society has sprung into existence and 

 is doing much for the protection of our birds. The results of the U. of M. 

 northern expedition will soon be published. Taverner and Swales secured 

 several important additional records to our fauna and other students have 

 T)een working long various lines. The meetings have all been successful, 

 especially the annual meeting, an event every member should try to attend in 

 the future. We have thus reason to congratulate ourselves as a society. 



Of the future we can expect still greater advance and improvement. 

 During 1905 the Bulletin will contain many interesting papers on our birds. 

 The original drawings and photographs of birds, their nests and eggs, will 

 be of no less interest. Let us as members strive to make 1905 a more eventful 

 year than ever before. 



Married: Mr. Ed\vard Arnold, of Battle Creek, was married to Miss 

 Alta Simons, of that city, on November 29, 1904. Mr. Arnold is Lost Freight 

 Agent for the Grand Trunk, and is well known to Michigan students for 

 his fine oological collection. We have already published many of Mr. 

 Arnold's notes on his rarer "takes," and wish to congratulate him on hi 

 latest one. 



