JBirli - lore 



May -June, 1915 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



l''R()NTisi>nct'F. IN Color — Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Plumbeous Gnatcatcher, 



Bi.AcK-TAiL Gnatcatcher Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



Bird-Photography for Women. Illustrated by the author 



Miss E. L. Turner. . 175 



Bird-Life in Southern Illinois. Part IV Robert Ridgway. . 191 



A Blue Jay's Bath. Illustration Miss C. R. Seriven. . 19S 



The Migration of North American Birds. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



W . W . Cooke. . 190 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Thirty-third Paper 



Frank M . Chapman . . 203 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 204 



The Poetic Melancholy of the Birds, J. William Lloyd; A Few Interesting 

 Records From Chicago, III., and Vicinity, L. L. Mackenzie, W . W . Lyon; 

 A Prophecy from 'Punch,' Heyward Scudder; Terns at Orient, L. I., After 

 Twenty-five Years' Absence, and Notes on the Piping Plover, Roy 

 Latham; Egret at Bernardsville, N. J., John Dryden Kuser; Wilson's 

 Snipe Wintering in Nova Scotia, R. W. Tufts; Notes on the Red-headed 

 Woodpecker at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Maunsell S. Crosby; Red-headed 

 Woodpecker W^intering in Connecticut, Bessie L. Crane; Notes on 

 THE Starling at Hartford, Conn., Geo. T. Griswold; A Belated Parula, 

 Grace H. L. Deivitte; A Massachusetts Mockingbird, Mary Gibbs Hinds; 

 The Arrival of the Martins, Corabelle Cummings; The House Wren and 

 Dry Sticks, A. H. Goddard; Winter Robins, Robie \V . Tufts; Plaster for 

 the Robin's Nest, J . H. Rohrbach; Chronology of a Robin Family, Francis 

 A. Judson; Three of a Kind (Photograph), Annie M. Richards. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 214 



Recent Publications of the Biological Survey; The Ornithological Maga- 

 zines. 



EDITORIAL 216 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 217 



Lending a Hand. A. II. W.; Birds in Legend and Study; For Teachers and 

 Pupils; For and From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 80. The Chipping Sparrow. With Colored Plate 



by Bruce Uorsfall T. Gilbert Pearson . . 231 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 235 



Summer Courses in Bird Study; Legislating Backward; With the Field- 

 Agents, Bird-Friends in Arizona (Illus.), William L. and Irene Finley; 

 Two Civilized Sandhill Cranes, Minna Moore Willson (Illus.); Ephriam 

 Benjamin Repp, James William Bartlett; Which Would You Choose? 

 (Verse), T. Gilbert Pearson; The Heath Hen Reservation (Illus.); On the 

 Cat Question; An Appreciative Word; Aigrettes Seized; Two New 

 Federal Reservations; A Useful Teacher; From Philadelphia, Bessie 

 M. Markley; From West Virgini.a., D. W. Parsons; New Members and 

 Contributors. 



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