j&irli lore 



July -August, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Indigo Bunting and Blue Grosbeak .. Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



Birds and Seasons in My Garden. IV. July and August. With photographs 

 by the author Mabel Osgood Wright ..179 



The Breeding of the Pine Warbler in Rhode Island. With photographs 

 by the author Robert Cushman Murphy . . 187 



Disabled Birds. Illustrated William Cogswell Clarke. . 191 



A Yellow-throat Family. Illustrated by the author Alfred C. Rcdfield . . 195 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Eleventh Paper. With col- 

 ored plate by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W . Cooke . . 198 



Notes on Plumage of North American Sparrows. Tenth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 202 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 203 



The Keeping of Notes, Althea R. Sherman; A Balloon Bird, R. F. O'Neal; 

 A Bit of Siskin Courtship, May R. Thayer; A Vireo Tragedy, AUhea R. 

 Sherman; A Confiding Red-eyed Vireo, Anne E. Perkins; Bell's Viiuco 

 (illustrated), Walter W. Bennett; An Inexpensive Bird's Bath, Francis H. 

 Allen; Shovelers in Massachusetts, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Massa- 

 chusetts; Archie Hagar; Additional Evening Grosbeak Records. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 210 



Bull's Under the Roof of the Jungle; Beetham's Photography fo". Bird- 

 lovers; Sharp's Face of the Fields; Kikkham's East and West; 

 Recent Publications of the Biological Survey. 



EDITORIAL 212 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 213 



A Practical Demonstration of Protected Home Resources; A. H. W. for 

 Teachers, A. H. W. Correspondence; from Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 51. The Spotted Sandpiper. With colored plate 

 by Bruce Horsjall ff- K- Job. . 221 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 225 



President Dutcher; The Payne Bill; Saving the White Herons; New 

 Members, Junior Audubon Societies; Manufacturers' Offer Declined; 

 Notes from the Field; Levy Plumage Bill. 



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