We are Full of Good Things This Month. 



VOLUME III. MARCH, 189?. NUMBER 7 





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EDITED BY 

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THEODORE 



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Origix.^i, .\rtk-i.es. 



Behind tlie Wedding Veil. Julia Stockion Bohlns 97 

 An Old Case of Skins and its Associations. W'il- 



iiier'Slone OS 



Snap Snots with Pen and Camera. Six Illustra- 

 tions. Euyene S. liolfi- 09 



The Gourdheads in the Cypress Swamp of Mis- 



sonri. Olio Widmurin 101 



Odd Actions of Birds Unexplained. ]]\ B. Daris. lOM 

 Some of Our Winter Birds. .V. A. Carriker, Jr. 104 

 Plate of Young ('ooper's Hawk. Louis Agassiz 

 Fiur(e.i 105 



Editorial Eykie 106 



Letter Box 



Looking Down Chimney. Illustrated — Another 

 Sample— A Lady's Indignation — A Conun- 

 drum — Buzzards as ^Scavengers — Nesting of 

 Hermit Warbler — The Art of Kicking Gently . 107 



Pigeon Hole*. 



Destruction of Birds by the Act of God— 

 Red-headed Woodpecker Far North in Win- 

 ter — Immaculate Egg of Barn Swallow — A 

 Useful Fgg Knife — Rare Birds in Rhode 

 Island — Biids Wintering in Rhode Island... . 10 



Ix THE Om'RKy's Ci..\ws. 



Bulletins of the New 'Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station— Journal of the Maine 

 Oinithokigical Society — Dearborn's Birds of 

 New Hampshire — Huntington's Brush, .'^edge 

 and Stubble — Forest and Stream — Sharpe's 

 Hand List of Birds Ill 



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