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Vol. II. No. 2. 



APRIL, 1898 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



6IUD. 



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Puftlisned in ttie Interests ot OrnitHoIoau In MicHiQan. 



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Grand Rapids, Michigan, 







CONTENTS. 



Dr. Manly Miles, W. B. Barrows, 13 



A Few Hints on Taking and Keeping Notes, 



Dr. Robt. H. Wolcott, 14 



Van Buren County Notes, F. S. Shuver, 15 



An Ideal Spot, N. A. Eddy, 17 



Bird-plumes, Percy Selous, 17 



The Marsh Wren a Destroyer of Other Birds' 



Eggs, T. L. Hankinson, 18 ' 



General Notes, 19 



American Goshawk in Boone Co , Illinois. 



Albino Grackle. 



Some Notes on Colorado Birds. 



Notes from Ann Arbor. 



Occasional Bird Notes. 



Migration Notes from Old Orchard, Missouri. 



Editorials. 21 



Recent Literature, 22 



Michigan Academy of Science, 23 



Dewitt J. Oakley, 23 



Resolutions, 24 



A Suggestion, 24 



