BULLETIN 
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A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
PROSPECTUS. 
The need in this country of a periodical devoted exclusively to Orni- . 
thology lias long been apparent. To meet this want will be the object 
of the Bulletin. While its contents will consist mainly of communi- 
cations from the resident and corresponding members of the Club, it 
will embrace occasionally selected articles of special interest or value. 
It will also include reviews of recent ornithological publications, digests 
of papers read before scientific societies, announcements of works in 
progress, notices of ornithological explorations, and a department of 
general notes and miscellany, thereby assuming the character of a gen- 
eral magazine of Ornithology. 
Each number will consist of not less than twenty-four pages, to be 
increased as soon as the receipts from subscriptions shall warrant the 
additional expense. Two more numbers will be issued during the pres- 
ent year, in order that the second volume may begin with January, 
1877. 
The membership of the Club already includes all the leading orni- 
thologists of the country, who have generously oftered to give the Bul- 
letin in every way their hearty support. The Publishing Committee 
hence feel confident of being able to make the Bulletin worthy of the 
patronage of all interested in the branch of science it represents. Con- 
tributions to the present volume have been promised by Professor S. F. 
Baird, Mr. George N. Lawrence, Dr. Elliott Coues, Mr. Robert Ridgway, 
and others already well known to the public. Professor Baird and Dr. 
Coues have also kindly consented to act as Associate Editors. Its 
chief editorial management will be under the direction of Mr. J. A. 
Allen, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., to 
whom all communications intended for publication should be sent. 
Terms. — Subscriptions, $1.00 a year; single numbers, 30 cents. 
Subscriptions should be forwarded to Mr. H. B. Bailey, No. 13 Exchange 
Place, Boston, Mass. 
