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March- April, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pagk 



Frontispiece in Color. Mkadoulakks; Yellow -iieadeu Blackhiiu) 



Louis Anassiz FuerUs. . 



Winter Bird Life in Los Angeles. Illustrated Harriet Williams Myers. . 71 



The Bird-House for Purple Martins Thomas L. McConnell. . 75 



Green Heron and Nest. Illustration .1 . .-1. Allen. . 77 



Migration of North American Birds. .Second Series. XV. Yellow-headed Blackbird 



AND Meadowlarks Harry C. Oberholser. . 78 



Notes on the Plumage of North AmeriC/VN Birds, l-'iftj-ninth Paper 



Frank M. Cliapman. . 8j 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 85 



A YicLLow Kail in a Stki:et, Gladys Fouler; .\ Flicker's Food, Garrelt Ncd-kirk; Saw- 

 whet Owl (Illus.), Lawrence Zeleny; A Friendly Bh;e Jay, 'Henry Marquand; Ex'ening 

 (iROSBEAK Nesting in Wisconsin, O. IV. Smith; The .Vdventures of a Sparrow TR.-tP, 

 IF. B. Perley, Jr.; Sparrow Meets Sparrow, Mabel R. Ulxnins; A Catihrd F'oundation, 

 R. J. Middlelon; Mockingbird Winters in Iowa, Mrs. F. L. Baltell; A Tufted Tit- 

 mouse Story, Albert P. Grcim; Notes from Collins, N. Y., Dr. Ainie E. Perkins; 

 Bluebirds at Home (Illus.), Lester Morlock; Hanging the Bird-House, Emily A. 

 Corning; Birds and Salt, Fred J . Pierce. 



THE SEASON. XXIV. December 15, 1920 to February 15, 1921 91 



Winsor M . Tyler, J . T. Nichols, Harry C. Obcrljolscr, Thomas S. Roberts, Colin Campbell 

 Sanborn, Harry Harris, 11'. //. Bergtold, Amelia S. Allen, Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS yy 



Townsend's Supplement to 'The Birds of P-ssex County;' Bulletin of the Esse.x 

 County Ornithological Club; The Ornithological Mag.vzines. 



EDITORIAL loi 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 102 



Structure and IIaiut; Implements of Birds. .1. .1. Allm; From Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 11 1 



RiCPORT ON THE NATIONAL PaRKS SiTIATION; FEDERAL GaME LEGISLATION; TO PrO\ IDE 



FOR A Duty on Imported Caged Birds; State Legislative Matters; Audubon 

 Exhibit in Tennessee; New Members. 



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 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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