BULLETIN 
OF THE 
ESSEX COUNTY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 
OF MASSACHUSETTS 
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. 
ISSUED ANNUALLY. 
Charles E. Chase 
Walter G. Fanning 
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 
Arthur P. Stubbs 
Eodman A. Nichols 
S. G. Emtlio 
Albert B. Fowler 
Balph Lawson 
DECEMBEB, 1922 
SALEM, MASS. 
VOLUME IV, No. 1 
FOREWORD 
The past year has been one of accomplishment, possibly 
not of all we had planned, but enough to be gratifying. 
Enthusiasm and club spirit have not waned, our member¬ 
ship has continued at the maximum limit, and attendance 
at scheduled meetings has been large. The communications 
and papers have been of exceptional interest and educa¬ 
tional value. 
The regular club trips have been held successfully, but a 
number of special field meetings planned at the beginning 
of the year did not materialize. This has been largely due 
to business pressure on the bulk of our membership during 
the period of industrial readjustment. 
Unusual weather conditions interfered with the seasonal 
movement of many birds, resulting in comparatively poor 
lists of land birds, but seeming to favor the stay with us in 
season, and in some cases out of season, of many water 
birds. 
During the past year the Editor of the Salem Evening 
News, a daily paper of wide circulation in the county, re¬ 
quested us to furnish him, for publication, the lists of birds 
reported at each regular meeting, together with items of 
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