IBirti = lore 



September - October, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES P^f~-E 



Frontispiece — ScLiTAiRE, Mountain Bi.ukbird Louis Agassiz fnertrs 



Bird Protection in Italy as it Impresses the Italian Francis H. Herrick 193 



Thk House Wren. Illustrated . Fifd L. Holts . iqS 



A Study of a House Wren f.lizabelh Fi inn a 11 Ten Eyck 2>/i 



An Attempt to EsTABf.iSH a Purple Martin Colony William C. Norton 2(4 



The Migration of Thrushes Fifth and Concluding: Paper. Illustrated with colored plates 



irom drawings hy Louis Aji-assiz F/tcrles ami Brncr //ors/all ... ly.ll.Cuoke 205 



Bird-Lork's Colored Plates 20=, 



The Starling in America ... 206 



Notes by Robert O. Morris, George P Ells, A. A. Saunders, Robert S. Judd, Clifford H. 



Panshnrii. Albert Morgan, P. I,. Buttriik, Frances M Graves James Chapin,Ruy Latham, 



R. C. Caskey, Isabel McC. Lemmon, W. DelV. Miller. 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY . 211 



1 KAipiNc; English Sparrows, Mrs. P. R Bonner; A Plea for thf Sparrow, M. Fioise 

 Rumnev; English Sparrow Notes, Leila E. Honsinger and Richard M. Hu7it; An 

 Attk ACTIVE \isitor. Mary Pierson Allen; 'Ihe Skylarks on Loni; Island, .ff ."> Bowdish; 

 Horned Lark Breeding in Connecticut, C. A. Pangbum; A Friendly Nuthatch, 

 Illustiated, Edjvin L. Bnwn. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS .... 220 



Anderson's 'Birds of Iowa"; 'Cassinia'; Townsknd and Allen's Birds of Labrador'; 

 Townsend's 'Aiong the Labrador Coast'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 223 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 221 



October and Pkepara itons for Winter 



EDUCVTIONAL LEAFLET NO. 28. Purple Finch With coloied plaie by Pi nre Mm s fall 



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AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



.Vnnual Meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies ; Wood Duck and 

 Summer Wood Cock Shooting Conde.mned; New Bird Reservations in the Gulf 

 OF Mexico with Executive Orders and Maps; Report of Exploration of Seabird 

 Colonies on the Coast of Louisiana, H. H. Kopman. 



,% Manuscripts intended for ftublication . books, etc., for reviezc and exchanges should be 

 sent to the Editor, at the Anteiican Museum of Natural History, jyth Street and Sth Avenue. 

 New York Cifv. N. V 



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To those whose subscriptions 

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 to discontinue their magazine, the 

 present number is sent in the belief 

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On receipt of your renewal we 

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Reduced facsimile of the reproduction of 

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