Bulletin of the Michigan Oknithological Club. 



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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



/IDicbtgan ©rnitboloaical Club* 



Published Quarterly. 



L. WHITNEY WATKINS, Manchester, Mich., 

 Editor-in-Chief. 



Associates : 

 W. A. Davidson, 383 Morrell St., Detroit, Mich. 



T. L. Hankinson, Agricultural College, Mich. 

 Norman A. Wood, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Managing Editors, 



W. EARLE MULLIKEN, ] 

 LEON J. COLE, j 



191 First Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



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We are pleased to present to you the second issue 

 of our official publication in behalf of the birds, with 

 hearty springtime greetings in whistle, song and 

 chirrup from the birds themselves. We greet 

 through them their friends, for such are also ours. 



From the universial encouragement and letters of 

 praise from scores of our members for Bulletin No 1, 

 we are led to believe that our efforts in behalf of this 

 publication have not been entirely in vain and the 

 many annoyances and difficulties, born of inexpe- 

 rience and caused by a scattered editorial board, are 

 cheerfully met in our determination to make this ven- 

 ture of the Michigan Ornithological Club a success. 



The Michigan Academy of Science held its third 

 annual meeting in Ann Arbor on March 31st, April 

 1st and 2nd. This enthusiastic association of workers 

 is doing active work in nearly all the departments 

 of scientific research and has undertaken a biological 

 survey of the State. In this work every member of 

 the Michigan Ornithological Club should give all 

 possible aid, and we would advise that as many of 

 our members as possible become members of the 



Section of Zoology. Prof. Barrows is secretary of the 

 Academy; enquire of him. Many of our best workers 

 are now members. 



Did you ever chance to notice that it is not the 

 farmer, who is most concerned, who makes the mo 

 tion, at the annual town-meeting, to have the 

 bounty of fifteen or twenty-five cents placed upon 

 the heads of hawks and owls? Nine times out of ten 

 it is the village loafer and pot hunter or some shift- 

 less, worthless individual who is the author of this 

 motion, carried by this same class, and the farmers 

 who do not care because — they do not know better. 



And their good friends among the birds of prey 

 suffer at their expense and to their loss. It is doubt- 

 ful if we have a native bird of any species, which 

 we could not afford to keep even if wardens had to 

 be paid to protect it. 



We are pleased to present to our readers, in this 

 issue, a cut of Dr. Elliot Coues of Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Coues is kown to all through the invaluable 

 teachings, which serve as an inspiration to beginners, 

 in his Key to North American birds. We are pleased 

 also to note that he has associated himself with 

 the editor of "The Osprey" in the publication of one 

 of the prettiest and most practical ornithological 

 journals which America has yet seen. It has de- 

 served success. 



Two very amusing opinions have come to our no- 

 tice since last going to press. 1st. That the Michigan 

 Ornithological Club was organized to run out the 

 Michigan Academy of Science — this from a man of 

 science. 2nd. From a brother editor who says he can- 

 not possible see how the Michigan Ornithological 

 Club can get money enough to publish a paper. 



The first statement is too amazingly absurd and 

 childish to call for any further notice or space from us. 



In answer to the second: It is, Mr. Editor, a case 

 of we publish our paper with our own money and we are 

 in no way engaged in a financial venture. The Bul- 

 letin of the Michigan Ornithological Club wishes the 

 editor in question all success. 



"The Story of the Farallones", by C. Barlow and 

 H. R. Taylor, is out aud is replete with illustrations 

 of that rocky breeding place of thousands of sea birds. 



It is published by "The Nidologist", and is for 

 sale by them at fifty cents. 



"Birds", the new publication of Chicago, is now 

 added to our exchange list and will be gladly wel- 

 comed by our members with the many others in our 

 Club Library. It is beautiful with its colored pict- 

 ures of our native birds, and will serve as an able 



