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Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



/IDicbtgan ©rnitbological 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. 



W. EARLE MULLIKEN, ) 



>- Managing Editors, 

 LEON J. COLE, j 



191 First Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Subscription: In North America, fifty cents a year, strictly 

 in advance. Single copies, fifteen cents. 



Foreign Subscription: Seventy-five cents a year to all 

 countries in the Universal Postal Union. 



Free to Honorary Members, and to Active and Associate 

 Members of the Club not in arrears for dues. 



Advertising rates sent on application to Managing Editors. 



Entered at Grand Rapids, Michigan, as second class matter. 



Exchanges and books for review should be sent to the 

 Editor-in-chief. 



Articles for publication should be sent to one of the editors. 



All advertisements, subcriptions, or business communica- 

 tions should be sent to the Managing Editors. 



Author's separates can be furnished at a very reasonable rate 

 if application is made when the article is sent. 



A few copies of this paper are being sent as 

 samples to active onrithologists, whom we think 

 will prove good subscribers and fellow workers. As 

 a 'record of sample copies is being kept, you will not 

 receive another, so might as well subscribe at once 

 and help the Bulletin to the extent of fifty cents. 

 If you can pursuade your ornithological friend to 

 subscribe with you, your kindness will be appre- 

 ciated by those who have the financial end of the 

 paper on their shoulders. But it is not only your 

 money that we want; we need your assistance: as 

 critics, contributes, and workers. One half the 

 pleasure in the study of ornithology is in meeting 

 kindred spirits; and what better place can you find 

 to become known, and to know others, than through 

 an informal club paper? If you have a question to 

 ask, ask it. If we can't answer it we will try and 

 find someone who can. Haven't you something of 

 interest in those note books that have been packed 

 away since June? If you have studied birds one 

 month and haven't found at least one item of interest, 

 you must have had the "cap" on your field-glasses 

 — figuratively speaking. Perchance we can help 

 you to get rid of this "cap. " Give us an opportu- 

 nity. 



Owing to the nonpayment of mone3 7 s due the 

 Bulletin, we were unable to publish No. 3 in its 

 quarter. This will not occur again, and subscribers 

 will receive as many issues as they bargained for. 

 We have raised the standard of our paper in this 

 number and wish to announce it as permanent. We 

 believe that we can make our little paper of value to 

 our members, and it is possible that we may do 

 some good to ornithologists who are not members. 

 We need your support. 



Owing to the absence of Mr. Watkins, he being 

 engaged in the Northern Peninsula as Deputy Game 

 Warden, the work of editing this number fell to the 

 lot of Mr. Hankinson. 



The Cooper Ornithological Club, of California, is 

 compiling data concerning the breeding habits, food, 

 and migration of the members of the genus 

 Carpodacus. Information is especially wanted as 

 regards their injuring trees by eating the buds. 

 Farther information and blanks can be secured by 

 addressing Mr. Horace A. Gaylord, Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia. Our members should assist in this work. 



The photograph of the Downy Woodpecker, pub- 

 lished on page 34 of this issue, was taken by Mr. E. 

 W. Shufeldt, of Washington, D. C. Through an over- 

 sight of the publisher it was not credited to him. 



We are glad to see the stand that ornithologists 

 are beginning to take against the custom of the use 

 of birds in adorning ladies' hats; and we hope that 

 with the spreading interest in the study of ornith- 

 ology, that the intelligent women of our land will 

 soon be informed of the great drain they are making 

 upon the feathered population, which is fairly exter- 

 minating some of our most beautiful birds. 



Owing to the growing demand and the very small 

 supply of back issues of this paper remaining in our 

 hands, we cannot supply them at the original price, 

 or allow subscriptions to begin before this issue. 

 A limited number of copies of No. 1 can be supplied 

 at thirty cents; No. 2, twenty-five cents. Not over 

 ten complete volumes (Nos. 1, 2, 3-4) can be supplied 

 at seventy five cents each. 



We were sorry to hear this summer that our 

 esteemed contemporary, The Nidologist, had dis- 

 continued publication. Amateur ornithology has 

 lost a good friend, and one that will not soon be 

 replaced. Mr. Taylor deserves much credit for first 

 introducing an illustrated bird paper to an American 

 audience; and for this fact, and for the inspiration 

 that lingered in some of the "Nid." articles, the 

 American ornithological world must acknowledge 

 its indebtedness. 



