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November - December, 1915 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



I^KONTisi'iixE IN Color — Nuthatches Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



The Behavior of the Least Bittern. Illustrated by the author 



Arthur A. Allen. . 425 



A Family of North Dakota Marsh Hawks. Illustrated 



Florence Merriam Bailey . . 431 



Grouse Camp-Mates. Illustrated by the author Roy C. Andrews . . 439 



Pheasant. Photograph Guy A. Bailey. . 442 



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



W . W. Cooke . . 443 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds Frank M. Chapman. . 445 



Bird-Lore's Sixteenth Christmas Census 447 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 448 



Fruits for Birds, Wm. L. G. Edsoti; Pepper, Corabelle Cummings; The Old 

 Squaw in Jackson Park, Chicago, Edwin D. Hull; Gulls and Clams, R. F. 

 Engle; The Killdeer, A Winter Resident in Dorchester Co., Md. 1913-14, 

 Ralph W. Jackson; An Old Note Regarding the Breeding of the Red- 

 headed Woodpecker on Long Island, Robert Cushman Murphy; The Carolin v 

 Paroquet in Florida, W. F. J. McCormick; Meadowlarks Wintering in 

 Indiana, /. //. Gilllland; Meadowlarks Wintering in Iowa, Thos. W . Whit- 

 ney; The Camp Bird, W. H. Bergtold; The Evening Grosbeak in Central 

 Minnesota, J . P. Jensen; Smith's Longspur in Iowa, F. May Tuttle; Chest- 

 nut-sided Warbler Nesting near Baltimore, Chalmers S. Brumbaugh; Thrash- 

 ers and Thrushes, Sophia M. Newhouse; The Brown Thrasher and the 

 CowBiRD, Edward S. Daniels; A New Use for Birds' Nests, Laurence Snyder; 

 Unusual Winter Birds near New London, Connecticut, Frances Miner 

 Graves; Bird Notes from Cape Cod, Ethel L. Walker. 



BOOK NE-WS AND REVIEWS 462 



Watson and Lashley on Bird Migration; Laing's 'Out With the Birds'; 

 Recent Publications of the Biological Survey; Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 464 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 46s 



A Successful Venture; For Teachers and Pupils; For and from Adult 

 and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No, 83. The Surf Scoter. With Colored Plate by 



Allan Brooks T. Gilbert Pearson . . 476 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 480 



The Annual Meeting; William Dutcher Appreciated; The McLean Law 

 Before the Supreme Court; Prizes for Bird Photographs; The Spirit of 

 Audubon; With the Field Agents, Cruising the Klamath. 



Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon socities for 1915. . 493 



*^* Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

 to the Editor, at the A mcrican Museum oj Natural History, yyth St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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