Sirti lore 



May-June, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in color — Pyrrhcloxia and Cardie az. . Louis Agassiz Fuerles . . 

 A Bird Apartment House. With photographs by the author. .. .4 /6er; if or^aw. . 155 



.\ Purple Martin Colony Winsor M. Tyler. . 158 



B.A.RN Swallows in Springtime. With photographs by the author 



/. W. Lippincott. . i6i 



TowHEE NEAR Nest. Illustration G. A. Bailey. . 164 



The Gray Kingbird at Home. With photographs by the author 



Henry Thurston.. 165 



Cedar Waxwing with Young. Illustration '. . . .G. A. Bailey. . 168 



A Pet Blue Jay Mrs. H. E. Merrill. . i6g 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-second Paper. Illus- 

 trated by Louis Agassiz Fuerles W. W. Cooke . . 171 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-first Paper.. 



ir. DeW. Miller.. 172 



HOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 173 



Our Winter Boarders, Vanchie A. Ringwalt; The Evening Grosbeak in Nova 

 Scotia, Harrison F. Lewis; The Evening Grosbeak in Vermont, Eliza F. 

 Miller; Evening Grosbeaks in the White Mountains, Charles H. Rogers; 

 The Evening Grosbeak in New Jersey, Isabel D. Martin; A Baltimore 

 Oriole in Winter, Geo. L. Fordyce; A Freak Downy Woodpecker, Howard 

 Hopkins; The Worm-eating Warbler in April, John Treadwell Nichols; 

 Notes on the Song of the Carolina Wren, Merriam G. Lewis; A February 

 Kingfisher in Wisconsin, Geo. E. Baldwin; The Tufted Titmouse in 

 Wisconsin, /. A^. Mitchell; The Starling, American Robin and Bluebird 

 IN England, /. Rudge Harding; The Same Old Story, Ralph W. Jackson; 

 House Sparrow and Starling, Henry Thurston; A Solution of the Eng- 

 lish Sparrow Problem, Newton Miller; The Purple ]Martin, Dr. Ferdinand 

 Schreiman; Notes on the Shrike and the Chickadee. Eliza F. Miller; The 

 Predicament of a Pied-billed Grebe, Edwin D. Hull; The Holbcell's 

 Grebe .\t Bedford, Mass.^chusetts, Winifred Thorndike Simonds. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 181 



Torrey's 'Field Days in California;' Henderson's 'The Practical Value of 

 Birds;' 'Second Report of the Meriden Bird Club;' Chapman's 'Color 

 Key to North .\merican Birds;' ■17TH .\nnual Report of the New York 

 Zoological Society;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 184 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 1S5 



The Value of Co-operation; Junior Audubon Work; From Young Observers; 

 From Adult Observers. Meadowlark, photograph by G. ^. Bailey. 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLETS 



No. 66. The Green Heron. With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . ig8 



No. 67. The Alaska Longspur. With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall 



E. W . Nelson. . 202 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 206 



.\. Great Year for the Birds; New York and Florida; List of Contribu- 

 tors to the Egret Fund; New Members; New Contributors; General 

 Notes. 

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