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January - February, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Crested, Arizona Crested, Ash-throated and Oli\'a- 



CEOUS Flycatchers Bruce Horsjall . . 



The Hollow Tree. Illustrated, Ernest Thompson Seton. . i 



Loon. Illustration J- S. Perry . . 3 



The Feud of the Crows and the Owl. Illustrated. .. .fraw^ M. Chapman. . 4 



Birds Seen in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, During iqo8 



Kale P. and E. W. Vietor . . 7 



The Comradeship of Redpolls. Illustrated E.J.Sawyer.. 8 



Notes on Pacific Coast Shore Birds. Illustrated. . .7o/»h Treadwell Nichols . . 10 

 Thk Migration of Flycatchers. Eighth and concluding paper. Illustrated by 



Louis A gassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsjall W . W . Cooke . . 12 



THE NINTH CHRISTMAS BIRD CENSUS 15 



EDITORIAL 37 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Mabel Osgood Wright . . 38 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 36. The Mallard, with colored plates by Allen Brooks 



Edward Howe Forbush . . 40 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 48 



National Conservation Commission; State Audubon Reports; Audubon 

 Warden Murdered; Third Audubon Warden Murdered; Mosquito 

 Inlet Reservation; Foreign Relations; Legislation; A Reason for 

 Decrease of Bob-White; Bird Bulletins; Bird-boxes; Cats; A Valu- 

 able Experiment; Willow Island Fund; The Agassiz Association. 



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