^'■i'''i VI.'. \:i :i 



iSirli lore 



July- August, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pace 



Frontispiece in Color. Purple and Bronzed Grackles Louis Agassiz Fucrtes. . 



Yellow-breasted Chat and Cowbird. Illustrated Wilbur F. Smilh. . 175 



A Hat and Three Screech Owls. Illustration J. B. Pardoc. . 177 



Mourning Dove and Young. Illustration ll^'. J. Hamilton, Jr.. . 178 



The Mockingbird of the Arnold Arboretum C. //. Early. . 179 



English Sparrow and Nest. Illustration Arthur A. Jeffrey. . 181 



The Bird-Bath in Molting-time. Illustrated Craig S. Thorns. . 182 



The Cow bird: A Parasite Harry A . Elder. . 185 



Migration of North American Birds, Second Series X\T. Purple Grackles and 



Bronzed Gr.vckles Harry C. Oberholscr. . 192 



Notes on the Ph'mage of North American Birds. Si.xticth Vapcr. Frank M. Chapman. . 195 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 197 



Birds and Salt, J. E. //. Kelso; .Scarcity of Nichthawks, Fred. J. Pierce; Birds' Love 

 for Color, Rosalce M . Fee; A Kingbird's Nest, Don H. Robinson; Starling and Hens- 

 low's Sparrow in ONTAifio. E. M. S. Dale; Louisiana Tanager in Massachusetts, 

 Ethel M. Smith; Yellow-throated Warbler on Lake George, N. Y., Adelaide L. 

 Denton; An Albino Redstart, S. R Ingcrsoll. 



THE SEASON. XXVI. April IS to June 15, 1921 200 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Harry C. Oberholser; Lynds Jones; Colin Campbell Sanborn; 

 Thomas S. Roberts; Harry Harris; W . H. Bergtold; Amelia S. Allen; Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 211 



Instructions for Bird Ban-ding; Bird Stories; The Ornithological Mag.vzines; 

 Book News. 



EDITORIAL 2,4 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 215 



(ii;o(;k M'liv i)K BiKi)>: Yellow Wakiu.lrs Tai.e, .1. A. .Mien; From Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 222 



Annual Report of Junior Societies; Junior Societies and the Press; The Legal 

 Killing of Robins; Abbott H. Thayer's Contribution to Bird-Protection, T. S. 

 Palmer; Hiking for Birds; Thumbs Down for Florida Bird Protection; New 

 Me vibe Rs. 



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