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January-February, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES PA ge 



Frontispiece in Color. Ground Dove. To illustrate Educational Leaflet which will 



appear in the succeeding issue of Bird-Lore Bruce H or s fall. . 



Tiik Ring-Necked Pheasant. Illustrated Verdi Burtch. . i 



Black Dick. Illustration Frank Levy. 4 



Bobbie Yank. Illustrated Katrine Blackinlon . . 5 



The Staghorn Sumac. Illustrated E. A. Doolittk. . S 



Clay-Colored Sparrow. Illustration II. ^ S. Pittman. . 10 



Red-Poll. Great Horned Owl. Illustration H. & S. Pittman. . 1 1 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council ! 2 



BIRD-LORE'S TWENTIETH CHRISTMAS CENSUS Edited by J. 7. Nichols. . 14 



THE SEASON. XVII. October 15 to December 15, 1919 i<, 





BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 



Annual Report Biological Survey; Hudson's 'Book or the Naturalist'; Taver- 

 ner's 'Birds of Eastern Canada'; Burns' 'Birds of Chester County.' 



EDITORIAL 55 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 56 



Cooperation; How ro Build Bird-Houses. Illustrated. 



A. A. Allen; Feathered Allies. How We Becaio Junior Naturalists. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 7, 



The Klamath Lake Siti ition; Politics i\ Oregon; Bird Lectures; Charles Henry 



Davis (lllusj; Bird-Work vnd the Children; \iv, l. mi vnd Sustaining Members. 



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