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May -June, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Sage Thrasher, Mockingbird, Catbird, Thrasher. 



Louis Agassiz Fuerles. . 



The Chipping Sparrow. Illustrated by the author Newton Miller . . 151 



Veery Brooding. Photograph Arthur A . Allen . . 15s 



Two Marsh Wrens. Photographs Francis Harper and Arthur A. Allen. . 156 



Pete: The Story of an Adopted Robin W. H. Munson. . 157 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Ernest Howard Crosby. . 159 



A Domestic Tragedy. Illustrated by A. A. Allen Julia Moesel. . 160 



Crow About to Feed Young. Photograph Guy A. Bailey . . 163 



Snapping the Back-yard Birds. Illustrated by the author . .Pa«/ F. Dow/iwg. . 164 

 Some Experiences in Attracting Birds — The Nesting of a Red-breasted 



Nuthatch. Illustrated Henry S. Shaw, Jr. . . 166 



Mourning Dove. Photograph Elton Perry . . 171 



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



Frank M. Chapman., it 2 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 173 



Notes from Phillipston, Mass., Mrs. Myra Dunn; Winter Notes from 

 Southern Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; A Nest Census, Samuel G. 

 Meigs; Spotted Sandpipers, Alice Sage Allyn; Occurrence of Starlings in 

 Dorchester County, Md., Ralph \V. Jackson; Can the Starling Rule 

 Bird-land? Joseph W. Lippincott; A Singing Blue Jay, R. E. Robbins; Notes 

 on Warblers, W. J. Cartwright; Bohemian Waxwings in Southern Wis- 

 consin, Ethel Allis Nott; Do Cliff Swallows Ever Build on Painted 

 Barns? Mauley B. Townsend; An Unusually Colored Chickadee, C. F. 

 Stone; Nesting-habits of the Tufted Titmouse, Freda L. Hood; A Winter 

 Ruby-crown, Ida L. Reveley; Robins at Home, Drury L. Fish; Evening 

 Grosbeak in Northern New England, Manley B. Townsend; Evening 

 Grosbeak in Maine, Carrie Ella Miller; Evening Grosbeak in New 

 Brunswick, Helen V. Burnett; Evening Grosbeak in Vermont, Mabel A. 

 Shields; Evening Grosbeak at Exeter, N. H., George H. Selleck; Even- 

 ing Grosbeak at Meriden, N. H., W. M. Buswell; The Evening Gros- 

 beak AT WiLLiAMSTOWN, Mass., W. J. Cartwright; Evening Grosbeak 

 AT Ashland, N. H., John B. May; Evening Grosbeak at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., George W . Gray; Evening Grosbeak in Rhode Island, Harry B. 

 Agard; The Evening Grosbeak at Clinton, N. Y., John Thompson; 

 Evening Grosbeak at Newburyport, Mass., Marion H. Bayley; Evening 

 Grosbeak in New York City and Utica, N. Y., Lee S. Crandall; The 

 Evening Grosbeak in Greater New York City, Waldron DeWitt Miller. 



Photographs of Pheasants Arthur A. Allen. . 184 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 185 



Finley's 'Little Bird Blue;' Roberts' 'The Winter Bird-Life of Minne- 

 sota;' Egerton-Warburton's 'In a Cheshire Garden;' Wetmore's 

 'Birds of Porto Rico;' Prueser's 'Our Dooryard Friends;' The Orni- 

 thological Magazines. 

 EDITORIAL 189 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 190 



Taking a Robin Census, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work; For and From 

 Adult and Young Observers. 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 86. The Redstart. Illustration. . T. Gilbert Pearson. . 202 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 206 



Honor to William Dutcher; A General Index to Bird-Lore; Control of 

 Cats in Montclair; Omaha's Cemetery-Sanctuaries; Some Prize Photo- 

 graphs; New Members and Contributors; Contributors to Egret 

 Fund; A Request; Notes from Many Fields. 

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