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July - August. 1912 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Canon, California, and Abert's Towhees 



Louis Agassis Fucrtes . . 

 A List of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and Herbaceous Plants Native to New 



England, Bearing Fruit or Seeds Attractive to Birds 



Frederic H. Kennard . . 201 



Observations in a Laughing Gull Colony. Illustrated by the author 



Francis Harper. . 204 



A Great Blue Heron at Sea. Illustration Edward Harold Pounds. . 209 



One of Our Neighbors Lillian Lambert . . 210 



Some Nesting Habits of the Oregon Junco. Illustrated by the author 



May R. Thayer. . 212 

 Red-headed Woodpecker at C.a,mden, N. J. Illustrated by G. A. Bailey and the 



author 216 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Seventeenth Paper. Illustrated 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W . W . Cooke . . 218 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Sixteenth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 218 

 The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists 220 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 225 



From the Maine Coast, Tertius van Dyke; Birb Notes from Collins, N. Y., 

 Anne E. Perkins, M.D.; Unusual Visitors in Massachusetts, John B. May, 

 M.D.; A Long Island Brown Pelican, Julius M. Johnson; How the Gulls 

 Won the Vote, Annie Chase; The Semipalmated Sandpiper as a Marsh 

 Bird, (illustrated), John Treadwell Nichols; An Eagle Story, Wilbur F. Smith; 

 A Screech Owl Incident, Adrian Larsen; Note on the White-throated 

 Sparrow, A. F. Ha^ar; A Vireo Courtship, Winsor M. Tyler, M.D.; Hooded 

 Warbler at Hartford, Conn., Everett D. Dow; Notes on the Bluebird 

 AND RoniN, Eliza F. Miller; Janltary Bluebirds, Wm. Fuller; Kildeer in 

 New Hampshire, ir. E. Cram; Note on the Screech Owl, IF. F. Cady. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 232 



Clarke's 'Studies in Bird Migration'; First Report of the Meriden Bird 

 Club; Bird Classes of the .\udubon Society of the District of Colitmbia; 

 Headley's 'The Flight of Birds', 'Cassinia'; Mills' 'Spell of the Rock- 

 ies'; Kuser's 'Birds of Somerset Hills'; McAtee and Beal on 'Common 

 Game, Aquatic, and Rapacious Birds'; Wright's 'Birds of the Jefferson 

 Region'; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 2i7 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 238 



The Vacation Spirit; For Teachers and Pupils. Exercise IV, Summer Neigh- 

 bors (continued).; From Young Obserners (illustrated). 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET, NO. 57. The Yellow-headed Blackbird. With colored 



plate by Allan Brooks Thomas S. Roberts . . 250 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 254 



Audubon Work in Alaska; The Late Capt. Da\is (illustrated), Junior Audubon 

 Work (illustrated); The Florida .\udubon Society (illustrated); Indiana 

 Audubon Society; Jefferson Butler's Field Work; New Jersey Fish and 

 Game Commission; New Members; White Egret Protection, (illustrated); 

 Letters from Teachers (illustrated). 



i^*ifManuscripls intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be 

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Atenue, 

 New York City, N. Y. 



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