Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. 



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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



/iDtcbtGan ©rnitboloGtcal Club. 



Published Quarterly. 



T. L. HANKINSON, Agricultural College, Mich., 

 Editor-in-Chief. 

 Associates : 

 Percy Selous, Greenville, Mich, 



Miss Frances Margaret Fox, Bay City, Mich. 



W. EARI.E MULLIKEN, 



I 



Managing Editors, 



LEON J. COLE, [ 



191 First Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 



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Owiug to other and imperative duties, Editor-in- 

 Chief, L. AVhitney Watkins, has been obliged to 

 resign his position as literary head of the Bulletin. 

 Mr. Watkins took hold of the Bulletin in its very 

 start, and has aided largely in making it what it is. 

 If in future years it is the lot of the Bulletin to be 

 of material benefit to Michigan bird students, they 

 will have to thank Mr. Watkins for taking hold of it 

 when its success was even more than doubtful. Mr. 

 Thos. L. Hankinson, the First Associate Editor, will 

 succeed Mr. Watkins in this position. 



We would call the attention of our readers to the 

 "League of American Sportsmen, " recently inaugu- 

 rated in New York City. If for no other reason than 

 the stand it takes against the killing of innocent 

 birds and animals, not game, in the name of sport, 

 in wantonness and for commercial purposes, the 

 Michigan Ornithological Club should be in sympathy 

 with this praiseworthy undertaking. On its execu- 

 tive are the names of some of the first sports- 

 men and naturalists in America. The secretary 

 is Arthur F. Rice, of 19 west 24th St., New York. 

 The official organ is "Recreation," the editor of 

 which is president in conjunction with Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, of WasMngton, D. C, W. T. Hornaday, 



director of the New York "Zoo," and others. The 

 membership fee is one dollar, and those joining 

 before June 1st, will be enrolled charter members. 



Mr. Percy Selous, of Greenville, will be glad to 

 forward copies of the constitution and blank mem- 

 bership forms, to any who may desire to join. 



On another page, we present a half-tone, represent- 

 ing Mr. Leon J. Cole, in the act of taking a set of 

 two eggs of the Red-tailed Hawk. This nest, thirty- 

 five feet up in an oak tree was, in our experience, in 

 a rather strange place, being in one of a few 

 trees growing on a point of land extending into 

 Chandler's marsh. We have always found tliis 

 hawk nesting in rather dense woods and to find this 

 large, bulky nest, in comparatively open country, 

 was a novel experience to us. Several other views 

 of this same nest, were secured by Mr. Hankinson. 

 — W. E. M. 



As we go to press news reaches us that Senator 

 Hoar has introduced a bill into Congress prohibiting 

 the importation of feathers and portions of birds 

 designed for ornamental purposes. The bill also 

 prohibits inter-state trade in these articles. This 

 bill has already passed the Senate, and is soon to 

 be brought up in the House ; we would urge 

 every person interested in bird protection, to bring 

 all the pressure possible to bear upon his representa- 

 tive to secure his cooperation in passing this measure. 

 A strong lobby has been formed for the purpose of 

 defeating the bill, and it will take all the efibrts of 

 bird lovers to get it through. 



It is reported that the Avifauna^ a monthly maga- 

 zine on Birds, published by Mr. W. H. Hoffman, of 

 Santa Barbara, California, has again appeared, after 

 a long suspense of publication. We wish Mr. Hoff- 

 man the best of success in this second attempt to 

 establish his magazine as a regularly appearing 

 ornithological paper. 



The Auk for April, 1898, contains a valuable 

 article on "The Economic Value of the White-bellied 

 Nuthatch and Black-capped Chickadee," by E. D. 

 Sanderson, of Cornell University. Mr. Sanderson 

 graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College last 

 year with the class of '97. This article was the 

 thesis he presented for graduation. 



Mr. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago, 111., has a note in 

 the April Auk on the "Passenger Pigeon in W^iscon- 

 sin and Nebraska." He mentions several flocks of 

 these birds that have been seen in these states, of late. 



Dr. Gibbs writes, under date of April 30: "My 

 little girl, 13 years old, found nest and four eggs of 

 Prairie Horned Lark, April 24 ; on the 26th, eggs 

 hatched. On April 15, 1869, I found my first nest 

 of this species — same number of eggs, and I was 13 

 years old. Odd, 29 years later." 



