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July -August, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 Frontispiece in Color. Gray, Plumbeous, Yellow - Green, Yellow- 

 throated AND Blue-headed Vireos Louis Agassis Fuertes . . 



A Cow-bird's Nursery. Illustrated Clinton G. Abbott. . 149 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Marion Murdoch. . 153 



Some Nesting Habits of the Wood Pewee. Illustrated Amanda Elliott. . 154 



The Towhee. Illustrated Clias. E. Ileil. . 158 



Black Tern. Illustration J . M. Schreck. . 160 



Remarks on the Habits of the Kingfisher on the New Hampshire Coast 



Illustrated Henry R. Carey . . 161 



The Migratio.n of Vireos. Concluding paper. Illustrated by Louis Af^assiz Fuertes . . 



U . W . Cooke. . 165 



House Wrens. Illustration J . C. Elson . . 168 



The iMassachusetts .A.udubon Society Bird Lists 169 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 174 



The Dovekie Near Buffalo, Everett P. Wheeler, I J; Retribution, Illustrated, 

 W IV Arnold; A Young Oriole's Experience, Mell Rice: Red-wings Going 

 to Roost, Leander S. Kcyscr; Benumbed Grosbeaks, Isabella McC. Lemmon; 

 Nest-.moving, Harold Russell; Records of Kirtland's Warbler, Luren C. 

 Petty; Blue-Winged and Prairie Warblers Near Chicago, Lucy V . Ba.xter 

 Coffin; A Persiste.nt Robin, Mrs. E. J . Walker 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 1 78 



Watson's 'Behavior of the Noddy and Sooty Terns'; Wright's, 'Birds of 

 THE Boston Public Garden'; Grinnell's 'Bibliography'; Kaeding's Inde.x 

 to 'The Condor'; John's 'Birds in Their Haunts'; Crummer's 'Mig Robin'; 

 Waterton's Wanderings; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 1S2 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 183 



Educational Leaflet No. 39. The House Wre.n, with colored plate by Bruce 



Horsjall Mabel Osgood Wright 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 187 



Tin: Trade i.v .Aigrettes; The Brown Tail Moth; Law Enforcement in 

 Oregon; Report of Klamath Lake Warden; News from Texas; Mosquito 

 Inlet Reservation; A Plea for the Sharp-Shinned Hawk; .\ Resolution; 

 Our Duty to Our Bird Tenants. 



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