j&trli * lore 



July-August, 1922 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pagu 



Frontispiece in Color. Boat-tailed Grackles Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



A Bird Sanctuary in a Small Residential Garden. Illustrated. George. S. Foster, M. D.. . i8g 



A Hummingbird Waif. Illustrated Mabel Osgood Wright. . iqs 



In the Nesting Season Katharine Upham Hunter. . 196 



Three Views of the Yellow Warbler. Photographs Albert D. McGrew. . 199 



My Neighbors, the Nighthawks. Illustrated S. R. Mills. . 200 



Two Scenes in the Home-Life of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Photographs. Joseph Pollak. . 203 

 The Migration of North American Birds. Second Series. XIX. Boat-tailed Grackles 



Harry C. Oberholser. . 204 

 Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Illustrated. Sixty-fourth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 204 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 205 



Birds Across the Continent, 77. N. Henderson; Are Squirrels Bird Enemies? (Illus- 

 trated), Craig S. Thorns; An Unexpected Bird-Concentration, Charles L. Whittle; 

 A Window-Sill Aviary (Illustrated), Eleonora S. Morgan; Egrets on Long Island, 

 James W. Lane, Jr.; An American Egret in Eastern Massachusetts, Henry Curtis Ahl; 

 A Bird in the Hand (lUustrated), 'Wallace II. Robb; A Chimney Swift Invasion; Magpie 

 in Iowa, Laura Brady; The Story of a Young Blue Jay, Almcda A. Collan; Starling 

 Nesting in South Carolina, Gabriel Cannon; Home Life of the Purple Finch, Henry 

 H. Covell; A Junco Wave, Charles J. Spiker; Cardinals Nesting in Collins, N. Y., 

 Anne E. Perkins, M.D.; A Two-Story Nest (Illustrated), Craig S. Thorns; Resourceful 

 Cliff Swallows, Charles L. Whittle; A Thrasher's Bath, Frank Aikin; Titmouse and 

 Squirrel, Prewitt Roberts; An Odd Place for a Nest. 



THE SEASON. XXXII. April 15 to June 15, 1922 216 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; S. Charles Kendeigh; 

 Thos. S. Roberts; Colin Campbell Sanborn; Harry Harris; W . II. Bcrgtold; Ira N . Gabrielson; 

 Amelia S. Allen; Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 229 



McGregor's 'Philippine Birds for Boys and Girls'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 23 1 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 232 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT : . . . 247 



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