JSirli - lore 



May-June, 1917 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Least Bittern. Photograph Verii Burlch. . 1 2(> 



Our Neighbors of the Grape-Vine. Illustrated by the author Theodore Macklin. . 127 



Bird Gardening on Cape Ann Frank G. Speck. . 132 



A School-Sustained Bird Reservation Ralph E. Wager. . 135 



Two Bluebird Tenants. Photographs Avis Criss and W . R. Bonlton, Jr.. . 138 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 130 



A Remarkable Nesting-Site, William I. Morgan; A Substitute for a Hollow Limb, 

 Fred Gallup; Mockingbird in Cleveland, S. Louise Patteson; A Successful Bird- 

 Bath, Mrs. Arthur F. Gardner; A Boston Wood-Duck, R. P. Bigelow; Cedar Waxwings 

 at the Pool, John B. May, M.D.; A Wren's Nest Inside a Hornet's Nest, F. 

 Schtverdifeger; Bird Notes for 1916, from Orient, L. L, Roy Latham; Bird-Life on the 

 Border, as seen by a National Guardsman, Private Lawrence L Grinnell; A Stone 

 Bird-Bath, Margaret S. Hitchcock; The Tenant of a Back Yard Brush-Heap, W. B. 

 Mallory; The History of a Martin-House, R. W. McDowell; Bird-Boxes and Sign- 

 Boards, A. J. Anderson; Starlings at Providence, R. I., Mrs. A. C. A. Brown; 

 Starlings at Carlisle, Pa., Emelin Know Parker; Evening Grosbeak Records, 

 Editor; Interesting Winter Bird Records in Northern New Jersey, B. S. Bowdish; 

 Yellow-throated Warbler in Brooklyn, N. Y., Edward Fleischer; Bird-Protection 

 in the War-Countries, Alice W. Wilcox. 



THE SEASON 151 



Boston Region, Winsor M. Tyler; New York City Region, Charles H. Rogers; Phila- 

 delphia Region, Julian K. Potter; Washington Region, Harry C. Oberholser; Oberlin 

 Region, Lynds Jones; Kansas City Region, Albert E. Shirling. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS i55 



Pearson's 'The Bird Study Book'; Davis's 'Bird Poems'; Forbush's 'Ninth Annual 

 Report of the State Ornithologist'; Hard enkergh's 'Bird Playmates'; The 

 Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 157 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 15S 



The Need of the Nations, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work; For and from Adult 

 and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 92. The White-Throated Sparrow. With Colored 



Plate by Bruce Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson. . 172 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 176 



Recruits for Conservation; An Appeal from Russia; Comment on Current 

 Events; New Members and Contributors; Notes on Audubon Work. 



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

 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 7~th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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