Copyright, l8S8, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1888. 



The Mockingbird ( Mi/ims polyglottos (Linn.) ). (After Audubon's Plate) Frontispiece. 



The Mockingbird 47 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— (Ai-pkndix.) By Florence A. Merriam 49 



Charley's Wonderful Journeys.— VII. (illustrated.) By c. F. Amery 53 



The Audubon Monument, (illustrated.) 56 



Two Little Captives, (illustrated.) By Fthcldred B. Barry 58 



Helpless Pets. By Helen r. Austin 60 



By Albatross Mail 61 



Bird Myths.— I. Corvus, the Crow. By Emily Timelier Bennett 62 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 64 



Saving the Tree 64 



A Crossbill in Mid-Ocean , 64 



The Sparrow Correspondence , 64 



Preservation of the Yellowstone Park 65 



Eminent People on Bird Protection 66 



Useful and Entertaining BoolvS. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 

 THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. %\ 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 $^ ; cloth 5 00 



graving of the great naturalist after Inman's IManual 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 Forest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



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



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll , . i 25 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 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 



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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