Copyright, 1888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1888. 



Rusty Crackle ( Scokcophagus carolimis Mull) ). (After Audubon's Plate) Frontispiece. 



The Rusty Crackle 25 



Spencer F. Baird (With Portrait) 27 



Houses to Let. (illustrated.) By C. F. Amery , 3i 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— X. By Florence A. Mcn-iam 34 



Snow Bunting; Snowflake 34 



Hairy Woodpecker 35 



Downy Woodpecker 37 



White-Bellied Nuthatch; Devil Downhead 39 



The Cnatcatcher's Strategy. By w. s. Biatchiey 40 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 42 



The Dog and the Umbrella 42 



An Accomplished Bluejay 42 



Clouds of Birds 42 



Then and Now 43 



A Curious Floating Island 43 



Eminent People on Bird Protection 44 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMFNDED 7 



THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $i 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 400 



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 



graving of the great naturalist after Inman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard 125 



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 Forest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



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



Birds Nesting, IngersoU 125 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 Practical Taxidermy & Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 5° Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 5° 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, Rooseveh 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 



Holden's Book of Birds, paper 25 Maine Woods; Early Spring in Massachu- 



Insect World, Figuier i 50 setts; Summer; each vol i 50 



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