

iBirli - lore 



January-February, 1917 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pace 



Frontispiece in Color — Crissal, California and Leconte's Thrashers 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Birds in the War-Zone Major Allan Brooks. . i 



A Condor's Quill. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman. . 5 



An Effective Feeding Device John C. Lee. . 8 



Me.adowlark. Photograph Arthur A. Allen. . lo 



Bird-Lore's Seventeenth Christmas Census 11 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Forty-second Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 39 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



(Postponed to next issue, to make room for Christmas Census.) 



WINTER NOTES 42 



Evening Grosbeak in Pittsfield, Mass., Charlotte M. Barrows; Evening Grosbeaks in 

 Fall River, Mass., Ellen M Shove; The Evening Grosbeak in New York City, 

 R. S. Williams; Evening Grosbeak in Pennsylvania, Harriet E. Wallace; Pine Gros- 

 beak in Illinois, Mrs. Robert Lathrop; A Practical Solution of the Sparrow Prob- 

 lem, Mrs. Edith H. Smith; Ac.\dian Chickadee at Branchport, N. Y., Clarence S. 

 Stone. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 45 



Trafton's 'Bird Friends;' Alice E. Ball's 'A Year with the Birds;' Audubon Pocket 

 Bird Collection; Ornithological Magazines; A Winter Feeding Poster. 



EDITORIAL 47 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 48 



One Way To Begin the New Year; For Teachers and Pupils; For and from Adult 

 and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 90. The English Sparrow. With Colored Plate by 



Bruce Horsf all T. Gilbert Pearson . . 60 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 64 



Motion-Pictures of Wild Bird-Life Now Available; The Educ.-^tion of a Robin; 

 New Members and Contributors; Notes on Altdubon Work. 



* it* Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

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



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