iBirti lore 



July - August, 1910 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece. — Pine Siskin, Goldfinch Louis Agassiz Fueries . . 



The Black-billed Cuckoo AT Home. Illustrated Edmund J . Sawyer . . 131 



Some Bird Orphans. Illustrated L. H. Schroeder .. 13s 



Cliff Swallows. Illustrated Frank A. Brown. . 137 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Fifth Paper. Illustrated by 



Louis Agassiz Fueries W. IV. Cooke .. 139 



Notes on the Plumage of North America.m Sparrows. Fourth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman.. 142 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 14.^ 



A Trait of the English Sparrow, Edwin W. Humphrey;; Replacing a Fallen 

 Swift's Nest, Illustrated, L. P. Emerson; Curios in Nests, L.S. K:yser; Some 

 Rare Ducks Wintering Near Boston, Illustrated, \V . Charlesivorth Levey; 

 lv\RLY .Appearance of Gulls on Cohalt Lake, Ont., Arthur A. Cole; Great 

 Crests Nesting in a Box, Egbert T. Bush; I'iki'le Martins Increasing, 

 Ferdinand Schreiman; Notes on Swainsox's Hwvk, John McB. Robertson; 

 Late Stay of the Evening Grosbeak, R. K. Scrber: The Least Flycatcher, 

 Illustrated, J. M. Schreck; The Cat Question, Emily G. Hunt; The Destruc- 

 ttveness of Cats, Mrs. Oscar Oldberg; .\ Hummingbird Guest, Mrs. M. L. 

 Stephenson; Tufted Titmouse in Northern New Jersey, Isabel MrC. Lemmon; 

 A Late Pine Siskin, L. Henry Potter; Do Birds Water Their Young? 

 Illustrated, .Mrs. S. Louise Patteson. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 15? 



Thayer's Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom; Beebes' 'Our 

 Search for a Wilderness'; Townsend's 'A Labrador Spring'; Macoun's 

 Catalogue of Canadian Birds; The New A. O. U. Check Lists; Palmer on 

 (iAME Preserves; McAtee on Plants .Attractive to Birds; Thi; 

 Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL ' 5S 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS 150 



KniTOKiAL, .1/. O. W.; The Mary AI. Emery Bird Reserve, //. .1/. Benedict. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 45. The Black-headed Grosbeak. Illustrated with 



Cnlored Plate by Allen Brooks If. L. Finlcy .. 163 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 167 



The (;ift of Mrs. Russell Sage; Fifth International Ornithological Con- 

 gress; Some Reasons Why International Bird Protection Is Necessary; 

 The Mary Dutcher Memorial Fund: Bird Legislation in England; Notes 

 FROM Wardens; Destroying Cats. 



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