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September-October, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES p^he 



Frontispiece in Color— Sennet's Thrasher, San Lucas Thrasher, Bendire's 



Thrasher, Curve-billed Thrasher? Loui.s Afiussiz Fucrlcs. . 



Cardinals Through the Year Mrs Robert G. Steele . . 289 



•Howell's' Nighthawk Sitting on Its Eggs. Photograph Klton Perry.. 293 



Protection of Migrating Birds in England. Illustrated W. W.Grant.. 294 



An Ancient Bird Census in Asphaltic Petroleum. Illustrated 



M. C. Frederick. . 296 



Oregon Notes Sarah Grace Pickins . . 299 



Winter Feeding-Stations at Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., 1915-1916. 



Illustrated \Vm. L. G. Edson and R. E. Horsey. . 302 



Screech Owl Johnnie Florence Merriam Bailey. . 306 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fortieth Paper 



Prank M. Chapman. . 311 

 Rough-legged Hawk. Photograph //. and E. Pittman . . 312 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



Feeding- Habits of the Downy, R. Eldred Boschert; Observations on Some 

 Winter Birds at Sigourney, Iowa E. D. Nauman; A Sparrow-Proof Indi- 

 vidual Feeding-Device, James F. Hall; A Distinguished Guest, Eunenia 

 Gillette; Bird Notes from Southern Wisconsin, Ethel A. Nett; Wheat-Wheat, 

 a True Story, Mrs. Lena Waiie; Quick Lunch, Margaret S. Hitchcock; A 

 Minnesota Feeding-Station, G. H. Luedtke, M.D.; A Golden Eagle in 

 Virginia, Mrs. B. F. Shaver; House Sparrows Destroy Crocuses, Geo. T. 

 Welch; Evening Grosbeaks and Other Rarities at Bethel, Vt., Eliza F. 

 Miller; A Chimeny Swift's Care of Its Young, Susan M. Williamson; Even- 

 ing Grosbeaks at Smyrna, N. Y., Mrs. W. L. Chapman; A Late Record for 

 the Evening Grosbeak, Stewart U. Burnham; Chased by a Great Horned 

 Owl, Charles H. Rogers. 



BOOK NE"WS AND REVIEWS 323 



Sawyer's 'Land Birds of Northern New York;' Scudder's 'Conservation 

 or Our Wild Birds;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



313 



EDITORIAL. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 327 



A Justified Criticism? A. //. W .; Junior Audubon Work; The Inner Har- 

 bor; For and from Adult and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 88. The Avocet. With Colored Plate by R. Bruce 



Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson . . 34-' 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 346 



The Treaty Wins; New Members and Contributors; News of Oitr Aux- 

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