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CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1888. 



A Green Woodpecker (Another of the early drawings of Audubon) Frontispiece. 



Audubonian Sketches.— II. By R. w. Shufeldt 3 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— IX. By Florence A. Men-iam 6 



Slate-Colored Junco; Snowbird 6 



Bluejay 8 



Crossbills 11 



Charley's Wonderful Journeys.— VI. By C F. Amejy 12 



The English Sparrow Discussed 15 



Portrait of General F. E. Spinner 17 



A Family on My Hands. By Violet S. Williams 18 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 20 



Ornithologists vs. Collectors 20 



A Story of the Imagination 21 



A Young Ornithologist 21 



Eminent People on Bird Protection 22 



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A NaturaHst's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $i 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 



A. O. U. Check List of N. A. Birds 3 00 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut. . . i 00 



American Bird Fancier 50 John Burroughs' Works: Wake Robin; Win- • 



Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 ter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and 



Audubon's Journals: Compiled by his widow, Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each vol. i 50 



edited by J. G. Wilson (with steel plate en- Mammals of New York, paper $4 ; cloth 5 00 



gravingof the great naturalist after I nman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



painting) ; octavo 2 00 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan 2 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Minot's Land and Game Birds '..... 3 00 



Bird Notes, from Ernest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds and Wild Animals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds Nesting, IngersoU i 25 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 PracticalTaxidermyiS: Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton. ... 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i 00 



Coues' Check List of North American Birds. . 3 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus.. Brown 50 



Game Water Birds of Atlantic Coast, Roosevelt 2 00 Thoreau's Works: Excursions in Field and 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 00 Forest; Walden, or Life in the Woods; The 



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Insect W^orld, Figuier i 5° setts; Summer; each vol i 50 



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