-V 



March - April, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES ?age 



Frontispiecf. in Color. Philadelphia, Warbling, Red- Eyed, and Black 



WiiisKERKD ViREOS Louis Agasstz Fuertes . . 



Chickadee All the Year Round. Illustrated Mary C. Dickerson.. . 60 



A Second Season of Bluebird Tenants. Illustrated Marian E. Hubbard.. 63 



A Special Bird-blind. Illustrated E.J.Sawyer.. 71 



Eggs of a Flicker Found in a Strange Place William Brcwsier.. 73 



Where Does the Male Horned Lark Stay at Night? 111us...7?. W . Hegne-.. 75 



The Red-winged Blackbird. Verse Domild Babcock . . 76 



Drumming Ruffed Grouse. Illustration C. F. Hodgi . . 



The Migration of Vireos. First paper. lUuslmWd ]>v L:iiiis .4 gassiz Fuertes . . 



\V. II'. Cooke. 78 



BIRD-LORE'S ADVISORY COUNCIL 83 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 85 



i;\i;xiN(; Grosbi AK at Willi amstown, Mass., Caroline R. Leake; Evening Gros- 

 beak AT Rut LAND, Vr., .Mary B. Coan; .\ Wintering Ruby-crowned King- 

 let AND CowBiRD, Mauiisell S. Cr;)sby ; The St.arling at Ger.mantown, 

 Pa., George Lear; The Carolina Wren in Massachusetts, Frank A. 

 Brown; The Color of Male Purple Martins, .1 . F. Poage ; .\ Martiv 

 Colony, Jas. S. Becker; Boxes for Purple Martins, Jasper Blines ; Tin 

 Cans as Homi:s for BLUEBiRns, Angus McKinnon. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS .S8 



I'rkbi.k's Rioi.ocic.ai. Iwf.stigation of the .\thabaska-Mackenzi!c Region ; 

 Salndek's 'My Pets'; Chapman's Camps and Cruises; The Ornithologi- 

 cal Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 01 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES SCHOOL DEPARTMENT .92 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 37. Siiarp-siiixned Hawk, with colored plate by Bruce 



Hors/iill Edward Howe Forbush . . 04 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 98 



Legislation ; The Cat Que.stion ; A Correction. 



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