MxXi - lore 



July -August, 1915 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Fkontispikce — A View in Birdcraft Sanctuary Wilbur F. Smith. . 262 



(The preparation of the usual colored frontispiece was delayed by circumstances 

 beyond the publisher's control. It will appear in the next issue.) 

 The Making of Birdcraft Sanctuary. Illustrated with photographs by the 



author and Wilbur F. Smith Mabel Osgood Wright . . 263 



Chronicles of the Nest-Builders W. B. Mallory. . 274 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Painter of Bird Portraits. Illustrated 



Frank M. Chapman. . 277 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Winifred Holway Palmer . . 284 



Our Tree Swallows. Illustrated with photographs by the author 



M. Louise Brown. . 285 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 288 



The Bird-lists of the Massachusetts Audubon Society for 1914; Unusual 

 Bird Visitors Near Washington, D.C, Raymond W. Moore; An Inexpensive 

 Bird-Bath, W. E. Barnes; The Wild Pigeon in Minnesota, Francis Leseure 

 Palmer; Notes from Ohio, Ruskin S. Freer; The Starling in New Hampshire, 

 E. Gordon Bill; The Crow as a Murderer, /. W . Lippincott; A Reconstructed 

 Baltimore Oriole's Nest, Geo. F. Tatum; Lark Sparrow on Long Island, 

 Maynard A. Nichols; Red Birds and Blue, Ida V. Reed; Rough-winged Swal- 

 lows IN New Hampshire, Ellen E. Webster. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 294 



Ball's Biography of Baird; Thorburn's British Birds; The Ornithological 

 Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 297 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 29S 



A Practical Investment, A. H. W .; For Teachers and Pupils, A Bird's Tail; 

 For and From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 81. The Kingbird. With colored plate 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . 312 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 316 



The Growth of the Junior Work (Illus.); The Junior Competition (Illus.); 

 The Honorable George D. Pratt, with photograph; Birds of the Cactus 

 Country, with photographs by the authors, William L. and Irene Finley; Gen- 

 eral Notes. 



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