JBtrfc * lore 



May-June, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pace 

 Frontispiece in Color. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. (See Educational Leaflet, p. 188.) 



Edmund J. Sawyer. . 



Spring Thunder. Illustrated //. E. Tu'ttlc. . 139 



Short-eared Owl. Illustrated J.J/. McClelland. . 142 



Cedar Farm and Two Wrens ! una Rogers Roberts. . 143 



Two Portraits of a Sitting Woodcock Ward B. Perley, Jr.. . 14(1 



Some Robins' Xests. Illustrated Wilbur F. Smith. . 147 



Crested Flycatcher. Illustrated Jesse L. Smith. . 150 



A Mich-used Robin's Nest. Illustrated A. P. DuBois. . 151 



Two Fox Sparrow Photographs Verdi Burtch and A . A . Jeffrey. . 154 



The Way of the Wren Katrine Blaekinton . . 155 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 157 



Bird-banding by the Biological Survey, E. W. Nelson; Winter Notes from West 

 Medford, Mass., Lidian E. Bridge; Evening Grosbeaks at Boston, F. C. Powell; 

 Evening Grosbeaks at Nyack, X. Y.. Mary L. Emery; Winter Birds at Ridgewood, 

 X* J., F. de la M. Bunce; Migration of Dicks and Geese at Winthrop. Iowa.. F. J. 

 1'ieree; Purple Gallintle in Connecticut, C. W. Packard. M.D.; An Odd Note of 

 the Blue Jay, Winsor M. Tyler; Blle Jays vs. Mouse, G. Gill; Mouse and Blue Jay, 

 Lizzie N. Douglas; Twenty-one Warblers in a Day. Richard M. Chase; What Killed 

 Cock Robin? Lilian Rea McCormick; Mrs. Wren Pits Her Family to Bid in a Robin's 

 Nest, Mrs. J. Elsworth Jackson; Bluebirds vs. Wrens. Mrs. Arthur F. Gardner; A CON- 

 FUSION of Instincts, Mrs. Arthur F . Gardner; A Clever Robin, Mary T. Barrett; Wrens 

 Drive Away English Sparrows, Xcttic Randall. 



THE SEASON. XX. February 15 to April 15 165 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 174 



Hudson's Birds in Town and Village' and 'Adventure's Among Birds'; Ornithological 

 Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 176 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 177 



Learning Riki^' Songs (Illustrated), .1. .1. Allen; House to Let, Kathryn Quarles; \ 

 Pur of Robins. ('. H. Fish: An Experience with Cardinals, Roy Marnier; Bluebirds 

 Drive Away Sparrows, /•.'. /•'. Dana and ('. P. Emerson. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 102. Yellow bellied Sapsucker. Colored Frontispiece 



by Edmund J. Sawyer T. Gilbert Pearson 188 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 192 



Migratory Bird Treaty Safe; Text op Suprem Com i Opinion; Bird Treaties with 

 Other Countries; Audubon Feather Exhibits; Taming Wild Birds (Mustrati 

 Etta S. Wilson; Mertden Bird Club; Birds Poisoned; New Audubon s<>, nins 

 Audubon's Collection; New Members. 



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 to the Editor, allhc A mcrican Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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