ISirli lore 



September - October, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispieck. The Black Duck's Courtship Flight E.J.Sawyr.. 



The Courtship of Black Ducks E. J . Sawyer.. 195 



Woodpeckers AND June-Bugs A. V. Goodpasture. . 196 



A Successful Failure. Illustrated Norman McClintock .. 198 



Hawk's Challenge. Verse Dora Read Goodalc. 204 



II.wvKS Hunting William Cogswell Clarke . . 205 



Two Warbler Photographs. Illustrated Albert Morgan.. 206 



The Hanging Home in the Oak Tree. Illustrated.. ..Harriet Williams Myers.. 20Q 



Blue Jay Boarders. Illustrated Puiila J . Rittcr . . 212 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 214 



.\ Word for the Cowbird, R. J . O'Neal; City Bird-Life, Mary F. Day; Birds 

 AT Mount St. Gabriel, Peekskill, N. Y., Sister Superior, St. Gabriel's School: 

 Save the Underbrush, Samuel Dowse Robbins; The English Sparrow and 

 Bird Boxes, Atthea R. Sherman; Sheltering Wings, M. L. Davis. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 21S 



Cory's 'Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin'; 'Dorothy Brooke's Schooldays'; 

 The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 222 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 223 



How Onk School M adk Bird IIousks lolni D. Honey . . 223 



Educational Leaflet Xo 40. The Bush-Tit, with colored plate by Bruce Hors- 



jall William Finley . . 225 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— ^EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 22c) 



AxxuAL .Mt-!;tin(; OF TiiK X ai ion ai. .\ssoci,\tio\ ; How to Attract Birds; Indi- 

 ana News; A Friend of the Farmer; Old Man Island Reservation; How 

 to .\ttract Martins; About the .-\igrette ; The 'Millinery Trade Re- 

 view'; Tin; SiiAkP-SiiiNNED Hawk Again; Legislation in New England. 



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