ISirli - lore 



March-April, 1917 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Bewick's, House, Winter, Alaska, Long -billed Marsh, 



Short-billed Marsh Wrens Louis Agassiz Fuertcs . . 



The Great Blue Herons of Honeoye. Illustrated Verdi Burlrh. . 7,; 



Two Baby Hummers. Illustrated Margarets. Hitchcock. . 70 



Redwing Elsie Elouise Wheeler. . 81 



The Purple Martin at Wichita, Kansas Richard H. Sullivan. . S^ 



Evening Grosbeaks. Photograph Mrs. W. F. Barrows. . 85 



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



Frank M. Chapman. . 86 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 88 



An Unexpected Visitor (Ills.), //. 6'. Shau\ Jr.; A Long-eareu Owl Koost, C U . Viberl and 

 G. T. Griswold; Notes from Southern Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; The Wellesley 

 Bird-Box (Ills.), John C. Lee; The Starling in Baltimore, J. Holloivell Parker; Lark 

 Sparrows ne.vr Gr.vfton, W. Va., A. J. Dadisman; Bohemian Waxwings in Seattle, 

 Wash., J. Dean and F. D. Terry; Prairie Horned Lark in Maryland, Edward Harris, 

 Sr.; Smoke Trees and Purple Finches, Mrs. Cuthbert Hall; Is the Cape May Warbler 

 Increasing in Numbers, R. E. Robbins; Evening Grosbeak in Ontario, R. B. Chelton; 

 Evening Grosbeaks at Morristown, N. J., R. C. Caskey; Cardinal in Rhode Island, 

 //. L. Madison; Pickerel Catching Swallow, Constance Humphrey; A Wren's Nesting- 

 Place, Blanche A. Turner; Helpful Young Bluebirds, Mrs. George A. Harter. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS gs 



Thorburn's 'British Birds'; Scudder's 'Conservation of Wild Birds'; Forbush's 'The 

 Natural Enemies of Birds'; Ingersoll's 'Index to Bird-Lore'; The Ornitholog- 

 ical Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL gS 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 99 



A Suggestion for Bird and Arbor Day; For Teachers and 1'upils; For and From 

 Adult and Yoitng Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 91. The Sage Grouse. With Colored Plate by Bruce 



Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson. . 112 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 116 



The Migratory Bird Treaty Bill; Hosts of Water-Fowl in Louisiana; The Amsion 

 Experiment Station; New Members and Contributors; Notes from the Field. 



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

 to the Editor, atthe A merican Museum of Natural History, yyth St. and 8th A-ce., New York City. 



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