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May - June, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Ipswich, Savannah, Belding's and Large-billed Sparrows . 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 



Ceremonials of Courtship Practiced by the American Merganser 



William Brewster . ■ 125 

 Birds and Seasons in My Garden. Ill — The Nesting-time. With photographs 



by the author Mabel Osgood Wright . . 128 



The Friendly House Wrens. With photographs by the author. .Wilbur F.Smith. . 135 



The Story of Two House Wrens Lidian E. Bridge. . 141 



Carolina Wrens in a Blacksmith "Shop. Illustrated Clara Calhoun. . 142 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Tenth Paper. With colored 

 plate by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke. 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Ninth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . 



144 



147 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 149 



Record of Evening Grosbe.\k at Branchport, N. Y., Verdi Burtch; Nesting of 

 the Carolina Wren, Miss Emma van Gilluwe; Notes from Gardiner's 

 Island, Ludlow Griscom; Some Nesting Notes, John McB. Robertson; Notes 

 FROM Illinois, George E. Ekblau; A Dove's Nest in Sphagnum, Robert Griggs; 

 Photographing a Kingfisher Interior, T. J. Moon. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS iSS 



Birds and Mammals of the 1909 Alexander Alaska Expedition; Grinnell on 

 the Linnet of the Hawaiian Islands; Faxon on Brewster's Warbler; 

 The Ornithological Magazines. 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 158 



Ways and Means, A. H. W.; Migration Afterthoughts, A. H. W.; The 

 Story of a Hummingbird, A. H. W.; A Spring Migration Record; A 

 Catbird's Revenge. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 50. The Carolina Wren. With colored plate by 



E. J. Smvyer Witmer Stone . . 167 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 171 



President Dutcher ; Levy Plumage Bill ; Save the White Herons ; 

 Maine Legislation; Some Audubon Workers; New Members; Notes from 

 THE Field. 



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