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Bird -Lore 



traits," Pearson's 'Stories from Bird-Life,' 

 and a new cheap colored edition of 'Bird- 

 Life.' 



l^nexampled activity has been shown by 

 the Protection Committee of the A. O. U. 

 and by the Audubon Societies in securing 

 desirable legislation for the better protection 

 of birds, new laws being passed, or old laws 

 amended, in Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, 

 New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, 

 Florida, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Mr. 

 Dutcher, in expending the Thayer Fund, 

 has extended the field covered by wardens 

 and it may be said with certainty that at no 

 time since they were first subjected to the 

 attack of millinery collectors, have the birds 

 of our coast been so well protected. 



Four new Audubon Societies have been 

 organized, bringing the total number up 

 to twenty-five, and the influence of these 

 societies is constantly increasing, as, through 

 the use of circulating lectures, libraries and 

 other means, they become important factors 

 in educating the people to realize the beauty 

 and value of bird-life. 



In the schools bird study continues to 

 claim increasing attention and all along the 

 line, therefore, where one be systematist, 

 ecologist, economist, protectionist, or educa- 

 tor, there is every reason to be more than sat- 

 isfied with the year's progress and promise. 



Bird-Lore for 1902 



The following outline of Bird-Lore's 

 plans for the coming year is submitted as 

 an evidence of our continued desire not only 

 to interest and instruct students of birds, 

 but to arouse in them a desire for original 

 investigation by suggesting lines of work 

 and by keeping them in touch with the re- 

 sults of the work of others. 



In the death of Elliott Coues ornithology 

 lost a leader whose place will never be filled 

 but the story of whose achievements will 

 ever prove a stimulus to all earnest work- 

 ers. In the next number of Bird-Lore D. 

 G. Elliot and Capt. C. A. Curtis, the first 

 a life-long friend, the second a messmate 

 of Dr. Coues at Fort Whipple, Arizona, 



his first post in the west, will write of tlieir 

 recollections of Dr. Coues at the time when, 

 as a young man of twenty-one, he entered 

 the army, and their accounts will be accom- 

 panied by a before unpublished photograph 

 of Dr. Coues taken at this period and by 

 extracts from the journal of his western trip. 



The general reader will also be interested 

 in Richard Kearton's ' The English Spar- 

 row in England,' F. A. Lucas' 'Weapons 

 of Birds,' Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's ' In the 

 Maine Woods,' and William Brewster's 

 ' Bird Voices of New England Swamps and 

 Marshes.' 



The last named paper will be of practi- 

 cal value to field students, to whom Dr. J. 

 Dwight's 'The Molt of Birds,' Ernest 

 Seton-Thompson's 'The Art of Journal 

 Keeping,' and a series of papers on the 

 families of Passerine birds will appeal. 



Students will also be helped, it is hoped, 

 by a series of papers on ' Bird Clubs in 

 America,' telling of their organization and 

 methods with the object of encouraging the 

 formation of similar societies elsewhere. 

 F. H. Allen will write of the Nuttall Club 

 in the next issue of Bird-Lore, and his 

 article will be followed by papers on the 

 Delaware Valley Club by S. N. Rhoads, 

 ' The Princeton Club,' by W. E. D. Scott, 

 'The Spencer F. Baird Club,' by Mrs. 

 Julia Stockton Robins, and these by others 

 to be announced later. 



The bird photographer will find that 

 Francis H. Herrick's 'The Chebec's First 

 Brood ' contains practical suggestions on the 

 study of nest-life from a tent, while A. Rad- 

 clyfiFe Dugmore will describe his method of 

 becoming intimately acquainted with wild 

 birds, and there will be some truly remark- 

 able moonlight pictures of roosting Crows 

 by C. D. Kellogg. 



In concluding this outline, we may add 

 that Bird-Lore is offered at least ten times 

 as much material as it can publish. Many 

 desirable contributions are rejected solely 

 for lack of space, and we sincerely hope that 

 circumstances over which our subscribers 

 have control will so adjust themselves that 

 1902 will witness a further increase in the 

 magazine's size. 



