Bulletin of the Michigan Oknithological Club. 



9 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



/nMcbi^an ©rnttbological Club. 



Published Quarterly. 



L. WHITNEY WATKINS, Manchester, Mich., 

 Editor-in-Chief. 

 Associates : 

 T. L. Hankinson, Agricultural College, Mich. 

 Percy Selous, Greenville, Mich. 



Miss Frances Margaret Fox, Bay City, Mich. 



Managing Editors, 



W. EARI,E MULLIKEN, ) 

 LEON J. COLE, ) 



191 First Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



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The Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Clnb 

 enters npou the mission of its second volume with 

 doubled energy and faith from the experiences of the 

 past year. We have in the meantime seen one small, 

 enthusiastic band of w^orkers, typical of the advance- 

 ment of all Michigan organizations, grow^ into an 

 association more than one hundred strong and with 

 its usefulness but begun. We congratulate our 

 Club, our friends, and all who share with us the love 

 of birds, upon the apparent possibilities of develop- 

 ment among the work and workers in that most de- 

 lightful branch of Natural History — Ornithology. 



Our board of associate editors is somewhat changed 

 since the publication of Vol. I. We trust that those 

 who now take the places of the former board, in the 

 important duties before them, may prove as efficient 

 and as willing in their work as have their pre- 

 decessors. 



Since the publication of the report for Michigan 

 by Mr. Watkins, your editor-in-chief, upon the 

 status of work along the line of bird protection in 

 this State, (Report of the A. O. U. Committee on 

 Bird Protection.— The Auk, Vol. XV, No. 1, Jan., 



1898,) we have received two letters, both from 

 ladies, regarding this work. 



Miss Edna Loomis, Jackson, Mich , speaks of the 

 wanton shooting of gulls and other water fowl "for 

 fun" by resorters and summer travelers in the 

 vicinity of Petoskey, en route, from the boats plying 

 to and from the resort cities of this region. Her let- 

 ter has been referred to the State Game and Fish 

 Warden of Michigan, and Mr. Osborn, in his usual 

 prompt and emphatic manner, announces that it 

 must cease. Miss Loomis sets a practical example 

 to all. Let us not only think and write upon this 

 subject, but acL 



Miss J. E. Hammand, Schaller, Iowa, Secretary 

 of the Schaller x\udubon Society, has written of the 

 earnest work of that thrifty local organization for the 

 protection of birds She enclosed a copy of the 

 leaflet they have issued and asked for suggestions 

 along that line. The editer at once ordered a suffi- 

 cient number of copies of this little leaflet to be sent 

 out to you with the issue of A"ol. II, No. 1, which 

 we hope you have now before you. They show un- 

 selfish work and devotion to principle in the Schaller 

 Society and are so thought-inspiring that w^e ask you 

 to ponder well upon the simple words therein. 

 Now, dear friends, while the spirit moves, read and 

 re-read the beautiful plea of the Bluebird's heart, 

 from the pen of Miss Fox, of your editorial board, in 

 this issue. Then again turn back, if you have it, to 

 Vol. I, No. 2, and read the article from our venerable 

 and honored friend, and Chief of the Pottawattamie 

 Indians, Simon Pokagon. It is entitled, ''To the 



Michigan Ornithological Club." 



Ponder upon what yon can do for the birds. 



Please send notes and news, and questions and 

 answers — anything of interest to you — to your paper, 

 this bulletin. Some may not find their way into 

 print at first, perhaps not at all, but all will be 

 thankfully received, and will receive the careful 

 consideration and attention of your editors. We 

 wish to make our pages of the very most value in 

 the limited space at our disposal 



Is it necessary for us to ask you to kiudly bear in 

 mind the necessity of promptly sending in your dues 

 to the Club ? We believe this year that none will 

 Avithhold, from the good work of the organization, 

 the little money required to run this Bulletin. But 

 it does take money and we must have it, in order to 

 make the most of its value to you in return. Re- 

 member, not a member of the Club receives one cent 

 of pay for services rendered, and it is simply 

 thoughtlessness that makes a few of our members 

 delinquent. As stated in our last issue, this number 

 will go to none who are in arrears for Club dues ibr 

 1897. Mrs. F. A. Kelsey, 140 Woodward Ave., 

 Detroit, Mich., is Treasurer. 



