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March-April, 1918 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pacf. 



Frontisimix K IN Coi.OR. SuMMER AND Hepatic Tanagers Louis Agassis Fufrtcs . . 



Why Not Kstablisu a Purple Martin Colony This Year? Grace ReShore. . 125 



Some Town Martins. lUus R. F. O'Neal. . 127 



The Size of Rooms in Martin Boxes /. /. Sheridan. . 130 



High Mortality among the Purple Martins in April, 1917 . ..Titos. L. McConnell. . 130 



A Collapsible Martin-House. IUus G. Ililler. . 131 



Notes on the Tree Swallow, lllus Verdi Burtch. . 13,3 



To the Song Sparrow. Verse. lllus Edmund J. Sawyer. . 136 



How to Make and Erect Bird-Houses. IUus Hubert Prescotl. . 138 



Photography .\t Feeding-Stations. IUus C Breder, Jr.. . 140 



Holbcell's Grebe in Connecticut. IUus Wilbur F. Smith. . 143 



The Migration of North .\merican Birds. III. The Summer and Hepatic Tanagers, 



Martins and Barn Swallow Harry C. Oberhohcr. . 145 



Notes on the Plumage of North Americ.\n Birds Frank M . Chapman. . 153 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 154 



A Census from Fr.vnce, E. W. Calbert; The Warbler Wave of the Spring of 1917, 

 Verdi Burtch; Spring Notes from a New Hampshire Farm, Katharine U pham Hunter; 

 Our Back-Yard Visitors, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Wood; Robins Repeatedly Using 

 THE Same Nest, Horace W. Wright; Notes on Robins' Nests, Elizabeth Lawrence 

 Marshall; A Sanctuary within a Sanctuary, A'. Hollister; A Winter House Wren, 

 Conroy Evans; Three Winter Mockingbirds. Elisabeth P. Stycr, Annie B. McConnell, 

 Louise de F. Hayncs; Cardinal in Wisconsin, N. C. Otto; A Bl.\ckbird Chorus, 

 Jessie I. Carpenter; An Industry Awaits a Captain, //. .1/. Howe; Some Ruffed 

 Grouse Notes, John B. May. 



THE SEASON. VI. December 15 to February 15 163 



Winsor M. Tyler; Charles H. Rogers; Julian K. Potter; Harry C Oberholser; Thos. S. 

 Roberts; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 167 



Beebee. H.\rtley and Howes' 'Tropical Wild Life,'; Harper's 'Twelve Months with 

 THE Birds'; Henshaw's 'The Book of Birds'; Patteson's 'How to Have Bird 

 Neighbors'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 169 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 170 



Are You Doing Your Part? A.H.W.; Junior Audubon Work; Suggestions for Bird 

 and Arbor Day; F^or and from Adult and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 95. The R u-en. With Colored Plate by Bruce Horsfall 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . 190 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 194 



Death to the Pelican! F2gret Protection Threatened; New Life Members. 



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



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