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July-August, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 Frontispiece in Color — American Pipit, Sprague's Pipit, Alaskan Yellow 



Wagtail, American Dipper Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



The Birds of Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 



Illustrated Edward R. Warren. . 217 



A Home in the Forest Florence Merriam Bailey . . 229 



A Merganser Family , May D. Lewis . . 233 



A Successful Bird Exhibit. Illustrated Frederick Greenwood . . 235 



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



Frank M. Chapman. . 240 



Louisiana Water-Thrush. Photograph A. A. Allen. . 241 



A Hummingbird Family and How It Was Fed. Photographs..^. A. Allen.. 242 



Proposed Regulations for the Protection of Migratory Birds 243 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 246 



Mouse-Catching by Birds, Joseph W . Lippincott; A Maine Pelican, John B. 

 May; Our New Neighbors, Mrs. Lena Waite; A Record Bird Census, 

 /. R. Whitaker; Evening Grosbeak at Portland, Maine, Sara Chandler 

 Eastman; Evening Grosbeak at Lancaster, N. H., Martha W. Burchell; 

 Evening Grosbeak at Topsfield, Mass., Mrs. W. H. Herrick; Evening 

 Grosbeak at Intervale, N. H., and Longwood, Mass., R. E. Robbins; Even- 

 ing Grosbeak at Pittsfield, Mass., Lucy F. Friday; Evening Grosbeak at 

 Worcester, Mass., Helen A. Ball; Evening Grosbeak at Winsted, Conn., 

 Mrs. Mary E. Hulbert; Evening Grosbeak at Oswego, N. Y., D. D. Stone; 

 Evening Grosbeak at Troy, N. Y., Mrs. Arthur F. Gardner; The First 

 Evening Grosbeak Record for New York City; also a Prothonotary 

 Warbler, Mary W. Peckham; A Visit from the Horned Larks, Mrs. 

 Arthur F. Gardner; A Curious Bluebird's Nest, Manley B. Townsend; Was 

 it the Mother Bird, Jeannette K. Finnemore. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 253 



Gregory's 'Theories of the Origin of Birds'; Pullen's 'Some Bird 

 Friends'; Manchester's 'The Trail of the Indoor Outer'; The 

 Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 255 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 256 



Bird-Study in Shakespeare's Time, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work; For 

 AND From Adult and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 87. The Veery. With Colored Plate by E. J. 



Sawyer T. Gilbert Pearson . . 270 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 274 



The Year's Junior Audubon Results; Photograph of William Butcher; 

 The Education of the Sharp-Eyes; Wide-Awake in Kansas City; 

 Exhibit of the Brooklyn Bird-Lovers' Club; Safety for Birds about 

 THE Liberty Statue; New Members and Contributors. 



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