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July -August, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in color — Swamp, Lincoln's, Black-throated, Sage and Bell's 



Sparrows I^ouis Agassiz Fucrles . . 



The "Old Man," A Maine Coast Bird Study. With photographs by the author. . 



Frank A. Brown. . 213 



Five Little Waxwings and How They Grew George G. PhiUips. . 218 



The Woodcock and Its Nest. With photograph by iht- author. Francis M. Root. . 220 



The Carolina Wren in Beverly, Mass Viola E. Crittenden . . 222 



Tragedies of Sandpipers' Nests. With pho^j,?raph hy C trl !!. Morrill 



Paul E. Gray . . 223 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists 225 



Proposed Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds. Reprint of 



Circular No. 92 of the Bureau of Biological Survey 230 



Long-eared Owl. Illustration Julian K. Potter. . 235 



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

 trated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W . Cooke . . 236 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-second paper. . 



ir. DeW. Miller. . 241 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 243 



An Unusual Site for a Che wink's Nest, Anne E. Perkins; Hawk and Snake, 

 Wm. E. Herron; The Mockingbird at Boston, Mass., Haskell B. Curry; Our 

 Friend the House Wren, Raymond B. Bcckwith; Moving a Robin's Nest, 

 Edward J. F. Marx; The Barn Owl's Scrap-pile, Thomas H. Jackson; 

 House Sparrow vs. Robin, J. II. Rohrback. 



BOOK NE'WS AND REVIE'WS 247 



Spruce's 'Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes;' Hornaday's 'Our 

 Vanishing Wild Life, Its Extermination and Preservation;' Riley's 

 'Birds Collected or Observed on the Expedition of the Alpine Club 

 of Canada to Jasper Park, Yellowhead Pass, and Mount Robson Region :' 

 'Abstract of the Proceeding.s of the Ltnn^ean Society of New York;' 

 'Field, Forest and Stream in Oklahoma;' 'Cassinia, Proceedings of the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club;' 'Buchanan's Life and .\dven- 

 tures of Audubon, the Naturalist;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL : 251 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 252 



The Value of Co-operation, continued; Junior Audubon Work; From 



Young Observers. Kingbird at Nest 



photograph by Guy A. Bailey. . 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLETS 



No. 68. The Brown Thrasher. With colored plate by Bruce Ilorsfall 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . 264 



No. 69. The Tufted Puffin. With colored plate by Allan Brooks 



William Leon Dawson.. 268 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 272 



The Feather Proviso; Regulations Under Weeks-McLean Law; New 

 England Legislation Preliminary Report; Great "Work in California; 

 Plume-Hunters Arrested; Starlings and Sparrows; Junior Work in 

 THE South; Junior Work in the North; List of Contributors to the 

 Egret Fund; New Members; Notes from Field and Study. 

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