iBirti ' lore 



January-February, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in color — Snow Buntings Louis Agassis Fuertes . . 



The Duck Hawks of Taugitannock Gorge. Illustrated by H. K. Knight and G. 



A. Bailey A. A. Allen and H. K. Knight. . i 



Local Decrease in Bluebirds Wells W. Cook . . g 



JuNco Photograph Guy A . Bailey . . lo 



Notes from Labrador. Illustrated A. C. Bent . . ii 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twentieth Paper. Illustrated. . . 



Louis Agas^iz Fuertes. . i6 

 Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows . Nineteenth Paper. . 



Frank M. Chapman.. i8 



Cardinal and Ground Doves. Photograph George Shiras, 3d . . 19 



Bird-Lore's Thirteenth Christmas Bird Census 20 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



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



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 46 



Forbush's 'History of Game Birds;' A 'Hand-List of British Birds;' Peabody 

 and Hunt's 'Elementary Biology.' Book News. 



Gannets on Bonaventure Island. Illustration F. M. Chapman. . 48 



A Sitting Ptarmigan. Illustration Evans Lewis. . 49 



EDITORIAL 50 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 51 



Mktiiods of Work; For Teachers and Pupils; For You.ng Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLETS 



No. 61. Hudsonian Curlew. With colored plate by Allen Brooks 59 



A . C. Bent . . 



No. 62. Ruffed Grouse. With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall 63 



George Bird Grinnell. 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 67 



The Do.mmerich Fund; Feed the Birds; The McLean Bill; Contributions 

 to the Egret Protection Fund for 1912; New Members; Ju.nior Audu- 

 bon Classes; From a Tennessee Audubon Worker; General News; 

 The Audubon Plumage Law in New York and New Jersey. 



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