iSirli ^^ lore 



November-December, 1919 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES ^^^^ 



1-KONTlSPIECE IN COLOR. CANADA JaY, OrEGON JaY, PinON JaY. ClaRKE's NUTCRACKER 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 

 XoTES FROM A TRAVELER IN THE Tropics. V. Chile Illustrated 



Frank M. Chapman. . 333 



How Birds Can Take Their Own Pictures. Illustrated Dr. E. Bade. . 34-' 



One Family of Flickers Anna Rogers Roberts. . 347 



Bikd-Loue's Twentieth Christmas Bird Census John T. Nichols. . 350 



A W inter Feeding-Place for Birds. Illustrated Verdi Burtch. . 351 



The Migration of North American Birds. XI. C.vn.vda J.\y, Oregon Jay, Clarke's 



Nutcracker, a.nd Pinon Jay Harry C. Oberholser. . 354 



XoTKS ON THE Plimage OF NoRTH .\merican Birds. Fifty-fifth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 356 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 357 



Notes from Conway, Mass., Florence Mabel Pease; U-Boat Methods in N..^tut?e, H. J. 

 LaDiie; A Surprised Ruddy Duck, Harry C. Oberholser; From Near the Arctic 

 Circle, Mrs. G. W. Gasser; American Egret in Connecticut, Bessie L. Crane; 

 Harris's Sp.vrrow at La\\-rence, K.^vns., Charles E. Johnson; Nuth.a.tch Acrobats, 

 Geo. M. Marckrcs; The Scarcity of Golden-crowned Kinglets, Francis H. Allen; 

 A Brood of Young Robins, Olga Marie Morgan; An Unusual Nesting-Site, Albert 

 E. Lownes. 



THE SEASON. XVL August 15 to October 15, 1919 364 



Winsor M. Tyler, M.D.; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Thomas S. 

 Roberts; Harry Harris; ]]'. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 371 



Bent's 'Life Histories of North American Diving Birds'; Coker's 'Habits and 

 Economic Relations of the Guano Birds of Peru'; Roberts's 'W.wer Birds 

 of Minnesota, Past .and Present;' S.a.unders's 'Golden Dicky, The Story of a 

 Canary .\nd His Friends'; Pe.^rson .\nd Brimley's 'Birds of North Carolina'; 

 Chapman's 'Our Winter Birds, How to Know and How to Attract Them'; Far- 

 well's 'Bird Observations near Chicago'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 37S 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 379 



Christmas with the Birds, A. A. A.; My First Experience with a Redst.art, Frances 

 Redjield Hallinan; A R.\re Pet, Mary Camara; A Pet Robin, Gabrielle LePcrrier; 

 October in Chicago, Elizabeth P. Bowers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 392 



.•\x.N'UAL Meeting; Two Boys, a Gun .and .v Knife. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON 



SOCIETIES FOR 1919 395 



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