j&irli - lore 



January - February, 1915 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



F-oNTispiECE IN Color — Pink-sided Junco, Gray-headed Junco, Arizona 



JuNco, Blaird's Junco and Guadalupe Junco Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



BiP.D-LiFE IN Southern Illinois. Part II. Illustrated by the author 



Robert Ridgway . . i 

 The Story of a Red-tailed Hawk. Part I. With photographs by Mr. and Mrs. 



A B. Morgan Mrs. A.B Morgan. . 8 



How Winter Thins Their Ranks. With photographs by the author 



Joseph W. Lippincott. . ii 



A Singing Swamp Sparrow. Illustration Arthur A. Allen. . 14 



An Early Bird. Illustrations Arthur T. Henrici. . 15 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 16 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Thirty-second and Concluding 



Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W ■ W . Cooke. . iS 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Thirty-first and Conclud- 

 ing Paper Frank M. Chapman . . 20 



Duck Hawk. Illustration 21 



Bird-Lore's Fifteenth Christmas Bird Census. Edited by Charles H. Rogers. . . 22 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 40 



Reichenow's 'Die Vogel.' Handbuch Der Systematischen Ornithologie. 

 ZwEi Bande; Roosevelt's 'Through the Brazilian Wilderness;' Florence 

 Merriam Bailey's 'Handbook of Birds of the Western United States.' 

 Fourth Edition; Report of Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey; The 

 Ornithological Magazines; Photograph of Lesser Yellow-Legs, by J. T. 

 Nichols, Jr. 



EDITORIAL 53 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 54 



A Question for Unprejudiced Consideration; Suggestive Methods of Bird- 

 Study; For Teachers and Pupils; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 78. The Loon. With colored plate by Allan Brooks 



Arthur H. Norton. . 68 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 72 



Ten Years of Progress; Mrs. Russell Sage (Illus.); The Lure of the Wild 

 Duck (Illus.); Proper Bird-Boxes (lllus.); Junior Audubon Classes; Eliza- 

 beth Drummond (Illus.); New Members and Contributors; General Notes: 

 John Muir; Support for the Migratory-Bird Law; The Mt. Meenahga 

 Bird-Sanctuary (Illus.); New Federal Bird-Reservations; The Coming 

 OF the Winter Guests (Illus.); The Brush Hill Bird Club; Bird-Calendars; 

 Alaskan Bird-Life; Feeding the Birds (Illus.); The Virginian School 

 Exhibit; Exhibits in South Carolina; (Illus.); New Arrangements in 

 North Carolina; Minnetonka Bird-Sanctuary; Good Work at a State Fair; 

 Birds in the Great War; A Law-Violator Fined. 



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 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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