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Bulletin of the Michigan Oenithological Club. 



Webster is 18 miles N. E. of Portsmouth) and look for 

 Bachmann's Sparrow again. 



Rev. W. F. Henninger, 

 Waverly, Ohio. 



[We are very glad to give space to Mr. Henninger's 

 interesting paper. Moral. — Never throw away any 

 specimen (however poor) of which you are not well in- 

 formed. We need accurate, earnest work, such as this, 

 from all. — Ed.] 



A Belated Heron. 



On December 23, 1897, about daybreak, a Great Blue 

 Hei"on (Ardea herodius) was killed by a policeman in 

 the street on Washington Ave., Lansing, near the 

 Hotel Downey. The bird was so stupid that the police- 

 man easily approached and killed it with his club. 



The specimen was given to Mayor Charles A. Davis, 

 who mounted it for his collection. It seems indeed a 

 peculiar incident to find this large bird, which we see 

 but occasionally about our swamps, marshes and lakes in 

 summer, in the unnatural environment of a city street, 

 and on a cold day of this coldest season of the year. 



T. L. Hankinson. 



Agricultural College. 



Mr. O. Widmann, active member of the A. O. U., 

 says in Orange Judd Farmer of recent date that the 

 pigeon is about the only bird that does not rear its 

 young almost exclusively upon an insect diet. 



Popular Science News, under the head of "Brain 

 Food," says : "The Skylark and Woodlark are al- 

 most the only birds which sing as they fly." What 

 is the matter with the Bobolink? 



James B. Purdy. 

 Plymouth. 



[I am glad to have attention called to the inexcus- 

 able nonsense in the "news" columns of some of our 

 best periodicals. — Ed.] 



Mr. Dewey A. Seeley of Lansing has been elected 

 president of the senior class, Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 



Mr. S W. Harris has recently returned to his home 

 in Hillsdale from Belvidere, 111. 



Mr. W. E. Mulliken is now the chairman of the 

 Migration Committee. Please send all communications 

 in regard to this work to himand not to Mr. L. Whitney 

 Watkins, who has his full share of correspondence as 

 editor in-chief of this bulletin. 



Mr. Charles L. Cass of Hillsdale has gone to New 

 Orleans, La., on business. While there he expects to 

 spend some time in collecting and studying birds. 



The first annual banquet of the Grand Rapids Game, 

 Fish and Dog Protective Association was held m Sweet's 

 Hotel, in that city, on January 20, 1898. This staunch 

 organization, of which Messrs. Osborn and Watkins of 

 our Club are members, offers $25 00 reward to anyone 

 outside the association inembership who will furnish 

 evidence to convict any person of violation of the game 

 and fish laws in Kent Co. Good for Grand Rapids ! 

 Why not Detroit, Saginaw, Lansing, etc., too? 



The Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of 

 Science for the presentation of scientific papers and for 

 other purposes, will be held in Ann Arbor, at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, March 31 and April 1 and 2, 1898. 

 The Michigan Schoolmasters' Club holds its meeting at 

 the same time and place, and it is probable that one -or 

 more joint sessions may be arranged. 



Owing to the illness of his mother, Dr. Gibbs was 

 unable to take his contemplated trip to California. 



From Mr. T. L. Hankinson's notebook: "Saw three 

 muskrats and a couple ducks fly over." 



On February 7, 1898, in Chicago, 111., representatives 

 from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota 

 and Illinois will meet to try and agree upon uniform 

 game and fish laws for these States. Such an effort must 

 be productive of much good and we sincerely wish and 

 hope that an agreement may be possible. Mr. Ruthven 

 Deane, of Chicago, member of the A. O. U. Committee 

 on Bird Protection, will appear before this meeting to 

 personally urge a carefully prepared list from the A. O. 

 U. Committee, as worthy of consideration for a uniform 

 bird law. 



Hon. Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie will sail for 

 Eui^ope soon. 



Miss Mabel Bates of Traverse City is society editor of 

 the "Herald," published at that place, and she does not 

 wear (un)"made" birds upon her hats either. 



Mr. Edmund Van Winkle of Vans Harbor has moved 

 to Warsaw, Indiana. 



Dr. Harry C. Watkins of Ann Arbor has resigned 

 from his position at the U. of M., and has opened an of- 

 fice in Saginaw, E. S. We understand that Dr. Watkins 

 is married. Will his wife wear birds upon her hat ? 



The editor-in-chief (who, by the way, has returned from 

 the Upper Peninsula and is in charge of our Bulletin 

 again) found Judge Joseph H. Steere in the front win- 

 dow of the Park Hotel at Sault Ste. Marie reading "The 

 Osprey," and one of the first things he did was to show 

 the editor through the dining-room and kitchen, to a 

 store-room, where an magnificent Snowy Owl was wink- 

 ing and blinking in the light. Does the judge love 

 birds? 



Mr. Mark B. Mills writes from Adrian, Michigan, that 

 he saw a Belted Kingfisher on January 14th. 



Chief Pokagon is now engaged in the preparation of an 

 exhaustive article for the Forum upon "Indian Super- 

 stition." 



At the Michigan Agricultural College any of our mem- 

 bers who may visit that busy and energetic institution of 

 practical common sense (and any who visit Lansing must 

 not fail to do so) will find us represented by the follow- 

 ing members : Walter B. Barrows, Rufus H. Pettit, 

 Thos. L. Hankinson, Wm. A. Ilayden, C. W. Loomis, 

 D. A. Seeley, Burton O. Longyear and Leon J. Cole. 



Mr. E. E. Brewster of Iron Mountain, the well-know^^ 

 ornithologist of the Upper Peninsula, is chemist of th^ 

 Pewabic mines at that place. Mr. Brewster is a graduate 

 of Yale. 



Messrs. C. S. Osborn and L. D. Watkins have been 

 commissioned by Governor Pingree as members of the 

 Cuban Relief Committee of Michigan. 



