I&irli lore 



November - December, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontisi'ifxe. — Chipping Tree, Field, Brewer's and Clay-coiored Sp\rro\vs 



Louis Agassiz Fucrtes. . 



A Day With the Birds on a Guiana Savanna. Illustrated. . C. William Beebe. . 235 



To A Collection of Brazilian Hummingbtrds. Verse Edith M. Thomas. . 240 



Notes on Alberta Grebes. Illustrated John M. Schreck. . 241 



A Heath Hen Quest. Illustrated Katharine B. Tippetts. . 244 



A Ruffed Grouse's Lodging. Illustrated Richard S. Eustis . . 248 



The Ways of Bob-White. Iljustrated by George Shiras, jd . .Frances M. A. Roe. . 24Q 



An Aerial Gymnast Charles Stuart Moody. . 252 



Bird-Lore's Tenth Christmas Bird Census. Announcement 253 



The Migration of Sparrows. First Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



W. W . Cooke. . 254 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 261 



Kinglets Captured by Burdocks. Illustrated James A. Ncedham: Some 



Interesting Reminiscences of .\udubon, Ale.xander Robert Chisholm: Bird 

 Battles, Robert Page Lincoln; Are the Birds Growing Less Abundant? 

 R. P. Sharpies: A Horned Owl Record, George H. Sellcck: Saw-whet Owl 

 IN Central Park. Anne A. Crolius; The Goshawk as an Enemy of 

 Poultry, Edward H. Perkins; Nesting of the Chimney Swift, A. W. 

 Honyu'ill, Jr.; Where are the Swallows? Isabella McC. Lemmon; A Be- 

 numbed Evening Grosbeak, Mrs. G. F. Clapp; Early Arrival of Evening 

 Grosbeaks in Southern Wisconsin, W. L. McAtee: Ruby -crowned King- 

 let Wintering in Southern Wisconsin, E. C. Gillette. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 268 



Dawson & Bowles' 'Birds of Washington'; Lodge's 'Wild Europe'; Job's 

 'Sport of Bird-Study'; Whymper's 'Egyptian Birds'; The Massachusetts 

 Society Calendar; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 271 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 272 



Editorial, M. O. W.; Redpoll Feeding, Clifford H. Pangbum. 



Educational Leaflet Xo 41. The Mockingbird T Gilbert Pearson. . 274 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 278 



DiKij HiKN ; .\nviai. .\I kfti.vg or THF. N'ationai. Association-. 



ANNUAL REPORT ON THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES 2S0 



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