HISTORICAL NOTE 



^7)IRD-LORE began publication on January 1, 1899, as "An 

 jD Illustrated Ri-Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Study 

 and Protection of Birds." 



The title-pages of the first five volumes show that it was 

 edited by Frank M. Chapman (its originator), assisted, as to 

 the Audubon Department, by Mabel Osgood Wright. On the 

 title-pages of Volumes VI to XII Mrs. Wright's name is ac- 

 companied by that of William Dutcher as co-editor. The title- 

 page of Volume XIII reads: "Edited by Frank M. Chapman. 

 Contributing Editor, Mabel Osgood Wright. Audubon Depart- 

 ment edited by Alice Hall Walter and William Dutcher. In 

 Volumes XIV and XV the name of T. Gilbert Pearson appears 

 in place of that of William Dutcher. 



From the beginning to the end of Volume XII the magazine 

 bore the imprint of the MacMillan Company of New York ; 

 since that time (1911) it has been published by D. Appleton & 

 Company of New York. It has always been printed, however, 

 at the Mount Pleasant Press in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 



The magazine has continued from the first to be published 

 only SIX times a year, and the price (one dollar a year, fifteen 

 cents a number) has remained the same, although the size of 

 the volumes has been increased from 206 pages in Volume I 

 to 498 pages in Volume XV. Its publication and popularity still 

 continue and are likely to do so for many years to come. 



The Editor. 

 New York, 

 July 1, 1916. 



