i&irli lore 



March - April, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Dickcissel, Lark and Vesper Sparrows. .Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 

 Birds and Seasons in My Garden. II — April and May. With photographs 



by the author Mabel Osgood Wright 67 



A Device for Looking into Birds' Nests. Illustrated William Brewster. . 76 



An April Snowstorm. With photographs by the author. .William D. Carpenter . . 76 

 Boxes for Birds That Provide No Nesting Material. With photographs by 



the autlaor Frank C Pellett . . 79 



An Artificial Swallows' Nest 82 



The Migr.ation of North American Sparrows. Ninth Paper. With colored 



plate by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke. . 83 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Eighth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 89 

 Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 90 



NOTES PROM FIELD AND STUDY 92 



The Evening Grosbeaks at Rochester, N. Y., C. A. Dewey, N. Hudson Moore; 

 Lyons, N. Y., 5. B. Gavill; Ithaca, N. Y., Louis Agassiz Fuertes; Greenwich, 

 N. Y., D. W. Mandell; Naples, Maine, Adeline Willis; Fall River, Mass., 

 Ellen M. Shore; Woonsocket. R, L, Alice Hall Walter; Taftville. Conn., 

 F. J. Werking; Canaan. Conn., Sarah W. .Adams; Hartford, Conn., Edward 

 Porter St. John; Portchester, N. Y., Cecil Spofford and Samuel Conly; 

 Andover, N. J., Blanche Hill; Newton, N. J., Mary F. Kanouse. Stephen D. 

 Inslee; Plainfiei.d, N. J., W. DeW. Miller; Brooklyn, N. Y., Alary W. Peckham. 

 Winter Notes from Northern New Jersey, John Dryden Kiiser; Brooklyn 

 Birds, Edward Fleisher, Secretary; Mockingbird Wintering in West Hart- 

 ford, Conn., Edward P. St. John; A Fire Station Martin Box, Charles A. 

 Stockbridge; Starling Imit.\ting Notes of the Wood Pewee, J. T. Nichols; 

 Song Season of the Nighting.^le, Mariana Hopkinson; The History of a 

 Ruffed Groltse's Nest, E. P. Warner; A Rare Warbler, Edward S. Dingle; 

 The Notes of the Hermit Thrush, W. DeW. Miller. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 100 



Tr.\cy on The Significance of White Markings,- thf Vertebrates of Cayuga 

 Lake Basin; Carriker on Costa Rica Birds. The Ornithological 

 Mag.\zines. 



EDITORIAL 103 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 104 



Conservation of Home Resources, A. H. W.; Suggestions for Bird and 

 Arbor Day, .4. H. W.; A Bird and Arbor Day Program, A. H. W. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 49. Chimney Swift. With colored plate by fi ./. Sawyer 



T Gilbert Pearson . . 115 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 119 



President Dutcher; Ch.^nge of Office; Attack on the Plumage Law; Cold 

 Storage of Game; Elk Starving in Wyoming; New Members; Notes; 

 Destruction of Meadowlark in Georgia; A Statement in Support of 

 the Present L.\w Regarding Wild-Fowl. 



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