Mx\} - lore 



January - February, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Chickadees Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Some Canadian Grouse. Illustrated by the author H. II. Pitlman . . i 



That Mockingbird. Illustrated John V. Frederick . . 7 



California Brown Pelicans. Illustrated by the author. . M^-i. F. T. Bicknell . . 9 



Homeward Bound. Photograph E. Niebergall . . 11 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 12 



The Migration of North American Birds. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



W. W. Cooke. 14 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Thirty-sixth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . i6 



Bird-Lore's Sixteenth Christmas Census 18 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



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



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 43 



Thorburn's 'British Birds'; Ladd's 'How to Attract Wild Birds Around the 

 Home'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 45 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 46 



A Practical Garden Class; For Teachers and Pupils; For and From Adult 

 AND Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 84. The Shoveller. With Colored Plate by Allan 



Brooks T. Gilbert Pearson . . 56 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 60 



Florida Still Asleep; The Egret Situation in South Florida; The 

 McIlhenny Project; Notes from Many Fields; Belated State Reports; 

 New Members and Contributors. 



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 lo the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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