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September-October, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Canada Goose Allan Brooks. . 



\\'hy Birds Interest Me Eugene Swope. . 231 



Three Weeks in the Boat Blind Illustrated. Guy A . Bailey. . 233 



Red-headed Woodpecker, Bronzed Crackle. Illustrated George Roberts, Jr.. . 238 



With the Birds in Alaska. Illustrated Mrs. G. \V. Gasser. . 239 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 243 



A Bird Battle, Sydney Richmond Tuber; Cardinal and Other Birds .at Kellogg, Minn., 

 Ou'en D. Flccner; Two Rare Kentucky .Songsters, Ben. J. Blincoe; White Egrets 

 AT .Smithtown, N. v., Ilamillon F. Potter; White Egret in Connecticut, Blair S. 

 Williams; A Flicker's Bed, Edna Hope Ashenhurst; Chimney Swifts in Fall .\n'd 

 Spring, F. B. Robinson; An Unusual .Accident, Ralph E. Danforth; A Gr.ackle's 

 Intelligence. G. A. Ilinnen; Redwings and Caterpillars, .1/. /. Compton; Gold- 

 finches Xest in Thistles, Clarence II. Bush; A Song Sparrow F.amily (Illustrated), 

 Thomas A. Taper; The Migration of the Martin, Blanche D. Sanborn; A Redst.art 

 Tragedy. Harry A. Sleeper; Wken Att.\cks Soi'IRREL. Mrs. Arthur IF. Britnall; A 

 A\'iscoNsiN Mockingbird, Lloyd Coble; Robin's Xest on a Trolley Wire (Illustrated), 

 //. P. Seierson. 



THE SEASON. XXVII. June 15 to August 15, 1921 249 



Winsor .1/. Tyler: J. T. Nichols; Harry C. Oberholscr; Colin Campbell Sanborn; Thomas 

 S. Roberts; Harry Harris; Amelia Sanborn Allen; Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 257 



Howard's Territory in Bird Life; Economic X'alue of the Starlinc;; The Or- 

 nithological Mag.-uines; Bird-Lores Wanted; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 259 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 260 



The Coloration of Birds (Illu-trated), .1. .1. Allen; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 106. C.\n.\da Goose. (See Frontispiece.) 



T. Gilbert Pearson 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 274 



Joel .\s,vph Allen; New Audubon Reser%'.\tion; Activities of the Bird Club of Long 

 Isl/VNd; Annual Meeting; The Wyoming Antelope Episode. 



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 tothe Editor, atthe American Museutn i\i Natural History, y^th St. and 8lh Ave., Ne7c York City. 



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