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May -June, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Coior Black-Capped, Hutton's, White-eyed, Least, and 



Bell's Vikeos Louis Afiussiz Fueries . . 



A Bird Photographer's Outfit. Illustrated A.C.Ben/.. lor 



Two Interesting Photographs from Alberta Sidney S. S. Stansell . . loS 



A Tragedv of Migration F. M. Bennett, Commander U. S. Navy., no 



Bobolink: His Prelude. Verse Mary J . Jacques . . 113 



A Crow Study. Illustrated Alfred C. Redfiild. . 114 



Blue-headed ViREO on nest. Illustration Ansel B. Miller . . 117 



The Migration of Vireos. Second paper. Illustrated by Lnuis Agassiz Fuerles.. 



11'. ]V. Cooke.. 118 



F L- K Ti 1 1; R N'dTK OX- Aimxu Flickers Loren C. Petry . . 120 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 121 



A Redpoll Invasion, Richard C. Harlow: Redpolls and \VHiTE-\\^.>GF.n Cross- 

 bills IN New Hampshire, Bessie Scribner Davis ; Redpolls i/"NEvr Jersey, 

 Chas. D. Lippincott, Pine Siskins in Vermont, E. F. Miller; The Wood- 

 cock's Song, Robert T. Morris : Observations on the Life History of the 

 Bobolink, P. L. Buttirick ; Evening Grosbeaks in Massachusetts, Anne H. 

 Whiting, The Evening Grosbeak IN Wisconsin, Gertrude M. Tii:is ; The 

 Ipswich Cardinal, illustrated, Frank A. Brown; .\ Bobolink Tragedy, illus- 

 trated, R. H. Beehe ; .\ Course in Bird Study; A Devoted PAl^,:,^^T, Jean 

 Martin; Stormbound Birds, Fanny S. Watrous ; More Central »«iRK (New 

 York City) Notes, Ludlow Griscom; Nesting Notes From Califo .nia, /o/ju 

 McB. Ro'birtson. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 131 



'In .\merican Fields and Forests;' Grinnell's 'The Biota of th .^.Un Ber- 

 ARDiNo Mountains;' Knovvlton's ' Birds of the World;' Chapman's 

 'Camps and Cruises;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 134 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 135 



Educ:ational Leaflet No. 38. The Bobolink, with colored plate by Bruce 

 Horsjall Frank M. Chapman 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 141 



Legislation; Good Rksults of .Anti Spring Shooting in N-ivv York ; Second 

 .Vnmal Rii'okt from Forest and Field Club of Belmont, Mass. 



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