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Bird-Lore for 1900 



Bird-Lore for igoo will, we think, 

 reach a standard of excellence not before 

 attained by a journal of popular orni- 

 thology. No effort has been spared to 

 secure authoritative articles of interest 

 to the general reader, as well as those of 

 practical value to the teacher and stu- 

 dent. 



There will be papers by John Bur- 

 roughs, recording the rarer birds he has 

 observed about his home ; by Bradford 

 Torrey, describing his methods of at- 

 tracting winter birds ; by Robert Ridg- 

 way, on song birds in Europe and 

 America ; by Otto Widmann, on a visit 

 to Audubon's birthplace ; and also con- 

 tributions from William Brewster, E. A. 

 Mearns, C. Hart Merriam, T. S. Roberts, 

 and other well-known ornithologists. 



A VALUABLE Contribution to the study 

 of bird migration will be a paper by 

 Captain Reynaud, in charge of the 

 Homing Pigeon Service of the French 

 Army, who will write of his experiments 

 in this branch of the service. 



Attention will be paid to the bird-life 

 of countries made prominent by recent 

 events : L. M. McCormick, who has 

 lately returned from the Philippines, 

 writing of the birds of Luzon; H. W. 

 Henshaw, of the birds of Hawaii, where 

 he has long been a resident ; Tappan 

 Adney, who passed a year in the Klon- 

 dike, of the birds of that region ; and 

 F. M. Chapman, of the birds of Cuba. 



A. J. Campbell, the authority on Aus- 

 tralian birds, will also contribute a paper 

 on foreign birds, describing the remarka- 

 ble habits of the Bovver Birds, with pho- 

 tographs of their bowers from nature. 



For teachers there will be a series of 

 suggestive articles on methods of teach- 



ing ornithology, by Olive Thorne Miller ; 

 Florence A. Merriam ; Marion C. Hub- 

 bard, of Wellesley ; Lynds Jones, of Ober- 

 lin, and others, who have made a spe- 

 cialty of instruction in this branch of 

 nature study. 



Students will be glad to avail them- 

 selves of the assistance offered by Bird- 

 Lore's Advisory Council, a new idea in 

 self-educational work, the details of 

 which are announced on another page. 

 Among papers designed more especially 

 for students will be Ernest Seton-Thomp- 

 son's ' How to Know the Hawks and 

 Owls,' illustrated by the author, F. A. 

 Lucas' ' Tongues of Birds,' also illustrated 

 by the author, and Professor Pinchot's 

 'A Method of Recording Observations. ' 



A PAPER of unusual value to those who 

 study birds with the aid of a camera 

 will be by John Rowley, of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, who 

 will describe a recently invented camera 

 which opens new fields in bird pho- 

 tography. 



For ' Young Observers ' there will be 

 articles by other young observers, and 

 poems and jingles all designed to arouse 

 and stimulate the child's interest in birds. 



The illustrations will, if possible, be of 

 even higher quality than those for which 

 already Bird-Lore has become distin- 

 guished. 



The Audubon Department, under Mrs. 

 Wright's care, will, as heretofore, print 

 reports of the great work which is being 

 done in the interests of bird study and 

 bird protection, and the series of helpful 

 articles by its Editor will be continued. 



This outline of the leading features of 

 Bird-Lore for the coming year will, 

 we trust, be deemed sufficient warrant 

 for the belief expressed in our opening 

 sentence. It will be seen that our diffi- 

 culty is not lack of material, but lack of 

 space, and this difficulty we hope our 

 subscribers will help us to overcome by 

 seconding our efiorts in their behalf. 



