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March-April, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Arizona, California, Florida, and Santa Cruz Jays 



Louis Agassiz Fucrlcs. . 



A Bird Watcher in France Herbert R. Mills. . 77 



Fdzld Sparrows. Illustrated F.N. Whitman. . 81 



A Surprised Crow. Illustrated Verdi Burtch. . 84 



An Unusual Horned Lark Family. Illustrated Frank Lay. . 85 



Migration Group Chart. Illustrated S. A . llausman . . 86 



Winter Feeding-Stations at Highland Park, Rochester. Illustrated 



II'. L. G. Edson and R. E. Horsey. . 88 

 The Migration of North American Birds. XH. Arizona and California Jays and 



Their Allies Harry C. Oberholser. . 90 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fifty-sixth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 91 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 93 



A Western Bird Table, Leslie L. Haskin; What Has Become of the Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet? Gordon Wilson; Scarcity of Golden-crowned Kinglets, E. A. Doolittle; 

 Evening Grosbeak in Connecticut, II'. E. Fuller; White-winged Crossbill in 

 Brooklyn, Ralph Friedmann; Prairie Horned Larks and Lapland Longspurs at 

 Ithaca, N. Y., C. II'. Leister; American Crossbill at Pittsburgh, Milo II . Miller; 

 Notes from London, Ont., C. G. Watson, Secy ; A Pennsylvania Mocker, Mrs. C. C. 

 Peter; Evening Grosbeak in New Jersey, A. P. Richardson; Winter Notes from 

 Ames, Iowa, //. E. Ewing; Unusual December Birds at Branchport, N. Y., Clarence 

 F. Stone; Golden-crowned Kinglet, B. J . Blincoe; Prairie Chickens in Northern 

 Indiana, IF. A. Squires; Bohemian Waxwing in Stetjben County. X. Y., Clarence F. 

 Stone; King Rail in Winter, James R. Webb; Nonpareil Wintering in Florida, 

 Mary C. Dodge; Purple Grackles Steal Thelr Suppers, G. Gill; A Rendezvous of 

 Red-winged Blackbirds, Dayton Stoner. 



THE SEASON. XVIII. December 15, 1919, to February 15, 1920 103 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Harry Harris; 

 Thos. S. Roberts, W. II. Bergtold, Amelia S. Allen. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS m 



Bulletin Essex County Ornithological Club; Bailey's 'Raptorial Birds of Iowa'; 

 Forbush's 'Bird-Houses and Nesting-Boxes, and Outdoor Blrd-Study'; Taverner's 

 'Birds of Red Deer River and Birds of Shoal Lake'; The Ornithological 

 Magazines. 

 EDITORIAL 114 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 115 



Keeping Track of the Birds; The Return of the Birds, A. A . Allen; An Interesting 

 Record, Theodore R. Beard. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 101. The Ground Dove. See colored plate by Bruce 



Horsfall in January-lVbruary Bird-Lore T. Gilbert Pearson. . 126 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 130 



Summer Recreation Schools and Nature-Study; Egrj t Protection in the Southern 

 States; An Interestinc Letter; Biological Survey News Bulletin; New Treaties 

 Proposed; 'Bluebird' a Live Pi blication; Report from Bangor; National Park 

 Association; Save the Redwood League; New Members and Contributors. 



*** Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

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