Mtt} lore 



September - October, 1910 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece. — Arkansas, Green-backed, and Lawrence's Goldfinches .... 



Loui'i Agassiz Fuerles. . 



Notes on Attracting Birds. Illustrated John C. Phillips. . 175 



Wing-Bars as Field-Marks. Illustrated Edmund J. Sawyer . . 17S 



Must Wrens Be Taught Nest-Building. Illustrated Craig S. Thorns.. 181 



A Record of the Outcome of Seventy-five Birds' NE=;rs 



Raymond H. Wheeler. . 183 



A Day with the Birds in Southern Arizona. Illustrated 



Stephen Sargent Visher. . 186 



Notes on Birds in the Florida Keys Mrs. Lucas Broodhead . . i8g 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists igi 



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



Louis Agassiz Fuerles W. W. Cooke . . 106 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Fifth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman., \q^ 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 198 



Bird's-eye View of a Paris Park, /. T. Nichols; The Bobolink in Montana, 

 Nelson Lundwall; Lunch-Counter Notes, Nettie T. Fairbanks; Pied-billed 

 Grebe Nesting in Connecticut, Norman DeW . Belts; Ta.x the Cat, Robert 

 T. Morris; An Albino Blue Jay, Henry W. Osgood. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIE'WS 201 



Pycraft's History of Birds; Wayne's Birds of South Carolina; Grinnell's 

 The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum; The Abridged A. O. U. 

 Check-List. 



EDITORIAL 203 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS 204 



Some Pros and Cons of Winter Feeding, M. O. W.; Announcement to South- 

 ern Teachers, T. G. P. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 46. The Robin. With a colored plate by E. J. 



Sawyer T. Gilbert Pearson . . 206 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 210 



.\nnial Meeting of the National .\ssociation ; International Humane Con- 

 ference; A New Committee; Bird - box Experiences; Some Audubon 

 Workers, No. i, Capt. M. B. Davis; State Societies News; A New Bird 

 Preserve; Reasons for International Bird Protection ; Foreign Bird 

 News; Delegates to International Ornithological Convention; Methods 

 of .Attracting Birds; National Conservation Congress. 



it:* if Manuscripts intended jor publication, hooks, etc., /or review and exchanges, should be 

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City, N. Y. 



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Special Notice 



\TfE take the liberty of sending this number of BIRD-LORE to subscribers 

 whose subscriptions expired August i, 1910, in the belief that the matter of 

 renewal has been overlooked. 



On renewal, a copy of the Remarkable Bird Plate, mentioned in the December 

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