IBirti lore 



November - December, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Aleutian, Gray-crowned, Hepburn's, Black and 



Brown-capped Rosy Finches Louis Agassiz Fuerles. . . 



Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Illustrated by the author. 



Louis Agassiz Fuerles.. 341 



A Hermit Thrush in Winter. Verse George Lear. . . 344 



The Tropic-Birds of Bermuda. Illustrated by the author Karl Plath.. 345 



The "Old Maid" Gull Will 0. Doolillle. . 349 



The Present Status of the Heath Hen. Illustrated by the author George W. Field. . 352 



My Bird Neighbors Mrs. L H. Toussaint. . 358 



How to Make a Thrashery Mabel Osgood Wright. . 362 



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

 trated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke. . 364 



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



Frank M. Chapman.. 366 

 Bird-Lore's Fourteenth Christmas Bird Census 367 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 368 



The Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker in Illinois, Robert Redfield, Jr.; Notes 

 ON THE Whip-poor-will in Missouri, Edgar Boyer; Horned Owl Killing 

 A Skunk, A. Norman Wilkinson; Bl.\ck Tern at Martha's Vineyard, 

 Charles L. Phillips; Hooded Warbler in Boston, Edith M. Hale; A Late 

 Goldfinch, Delos E. Culver; A Broken Wing and a Friendship, L. W. 

 Stephenson; A Roasting-Pan Full of Hot Birds, Lucy B. Stone; Notes on the 

 Robin, P. M. Foshey; A Tanager in Washington Co., Maine, IF. //. Palmer; 

 A Friendly Chickadee, John Woodcock; Rall Winter Birds in Massachu- 

 setts, E. H. Alherton; Henslow and Savanna Sparrows on Long Island, /. 

 T. Nichols; An Albino Pewee in Montclair, N. J., K. R. Hegenian; Thirty- 

 first Annual Congress of the A. O. U. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 378 



Kirkham's 'North and South;' Townsend's 'Sand Dune and Salt Marshes; 

 Taber's 'Stowe Notes;' Stone's 'Phylogenetic Value of Color Charac- 

 ters IN Birds.' The Ornithological Journals; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 381 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 382 



The Home, the School and the .\udl-bon Society, .1. //. W; Exercise XII, How 

 Birds are Fitted to Get their Food, A. H. W.; From Adult Observers; 

 From Young Observers. 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 71. The Tufted Titmouse. With colored plate by 



Louis Agassiz Fuerles Florence Merriam Bailey . . 394 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 398 



Directory of State Audubon Societies; Annual Meeting, T. G. P.; President 

 William Butcher, T. G. P.; The New Feather Law; Letters from .\broad 

 The Benighted Italian; List of Contributors to the Egret Fund 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIE- 

 TIES FOR 1913 404 



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