Copyright, j888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter 



CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1888. 



Fork-Tailed Flycatcher {Mih'ulus fyranuus (Linn.) ). (.Kfter .'Xudubon's Plate). . Frontispif.ce. 



The Fork-Tailed Flycatcher lyc) 



Alexander Wilson.— V iSi 



Charleys Wonderful Journeys.— X. (tiiustrated.) By c. f. Amery 184 



Man's Dependence on the Lower Animals, (illustrated.) 190 



The Song Sparrow iq3 



Bird Legends 196 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 197 



Notes from Pennsylvania 197 



A Duck in a Chimney 197 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED 7 

 THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott, .f r 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 on 



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 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 A,nimals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



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



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



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds i ^ 



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 1 i;<i 



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