IBirti I^ore 



May -June, 1912 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Black-headed and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



An Eighteen-year Retrospect Frank M. Chapman. 141 



The Wood Thrush. Verse Jane S. Davis . . 144 



The Golden-winged Warbler. Illustrated by the Author. .Maunsell S. Crosby. . 145 

 One Little Hummer and I. Illustrated by the Author. . Winifred Holway Palmer. . 147 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Henry Lear. . 149 



Notes on Cliff Swallows. Illustrated by the Authors . . Kale P. and E. W. Vietor . . 150 

 Making the Acquaintance of a White- eyed Vireo. Illustrated by the Author. . 



Alfred C. Redfield. . 153 



Ezekiel Maud Jamison Selby . . 154 



\'eery on Nest. Illustration J. M. Schreck. . 157 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Sixteenth Paper. Illustrated 



by Louis Agassiz Fuerles W. W. Cooke. . 158 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Fifteenth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 162 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 163 



Pine Siskin in Trenton, N. J., William M. Palmer; Where Are the Blue- 

 birds? J. Warren Jacobs: A Woodcock's nest, Merriam G. Lewis; Pine 

 Grosbeaks in August, H. H. Curtis; Florida Notes, Wm. M. Stillman; 

 Wrens in Our Garden, Lizzie A.Lyle: Winter Robins in Wisconsin, I. N. 

 Mitchell; Records from London, Ont., C. G. Watson and Melville Dale; Notes 

 ON the Pine Warbler and House Wren, Edward H. Perkins: Blue-Gray 

 Gnatcatcher Near New Rochelle, N. Y., Richard L. Burdsall and Others; 

 1911 Bird Notes from Long Beach, L. L, Ludlow Gr is coin; The Birds of 

 Little Elk Canon, Alice Dav Pratt; A Day's Waterfowl Migration in 

 South Dakota, Stephen Sargent Visher; Leucostictes Making Cliff 

 Swallows' Nests Their Night Abode. Sanford Mills; Wilson's Snipe and 

 list^-EST.Aretas A.Saimders; Birds in Prospect Park, K. P. andE. W. Vietor; 

 Abundance of Goldfinches, F. M. Chapman. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 172 



The Revised Edition of Chapman's 'Handbook;' Sclater's 'Birds of Colo- 

 rado;' Blatchley's 'Woodland Idyls;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 17s 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 176 



A Time Suggestion: For Teachers and Pupils; Exercise III, Summer Neigh- 

 bors; From Young Observers. 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET, NO. 56. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird. With col- 

 ored plate bv R. L Brasher Mabel Osgood Wright. . 186 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 190 



Massachusetts Legislation; Oregon; Florida. (Ills.) ; New Members; Fund 

 for Egret Protection; Notes on Junior Audubon Classes; New York 

 Bird and Game Laws; Notes from the Field. 

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 New York City, N. Y. 



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