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March -April, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES PAGK 



Frontispiece — Amkrican Robin Louis A^assiz Fuerles . 



The House Finch From an Ofkick Window Illustrated W. H Bftgtold 61 



VouNG Green Herons. Illustration R. 11^ Hegtier 64 



Bird Clubs in America. III. The Maink Ornithological Society. Illustrated . . 



J, Met toil Swam 6s 



Clay Bird-Houses and Bird-Baths. IllusLr.Ued . . . Robert IV Hegiier 69 



.•\ GdNTLK Criticism. Illustrated John Lyall Garretson . 7.5 



Kingfisher. Illustration .... . R. H. Beebe . 75 



The Migration of Thrushes Second I'aper. illustrated witli colored plates f 10m drawings 



by Louis Agassiz Fuerles and Bruce Horslall IV. IV. Cooke . 76 



'O610GY a Science' Correspondence P. A. Taverwr . :S 



Plu.mages ok the Robin . . . '^'^ 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 5i 



AHuMMiNG-BlKD THAT \V/..nti-d Lii-hl, lllustvaled, /•; A' Ifarre/,.- Tiik Fkki.ivi; Habits of 

 the Blue Jay, Jok>i HuIcIidis : Ihk Uhk .|a%' /-s a Ijl.si i- om-.k, i.emoe H. J-iall ; The 

 Blue Jay's Food, Geoige G. Blauchard; A Peksisikni Phokbe, L S. I'eai sou : An 

 Unusual Nesting-Sitk of the American LoNc^-EAki-n Owl, A. D hiiiker; The 

 I'.artramian Sandpiper, y. M. Bates ; Robins and Sparrows, C". M. Artiold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 85 



EDITORIAL S8 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT S9 



EmTOR\.\\.. \vv.\i., Mabel Osgood H'riglil \ Nature-Study Organizations, B. S. Boicdish ; 

 The Value of Blackbirds. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 25. The Red-winged Blackbird. With colored plate by 



Bruce Hoi sf all . Mabel Osgood ll'right . 93 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 97 



Legislation; Congress and the Biological Survey. 



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