VOLUME IV. 



NUMBER 8. 



GONTGNTS. 



Frontispiece. 



Purple Finches and Snow Birds at the Feeding Grounds.., 



Origin. \L articles. 



Birds of the Road.— IV. By Paul Bartsch 



Nesting of Some Rare Birds. By \Vm. I^. Wells 



William Swainson and his Times.— II. By Theodore Gill. 



i==L,/ Comments. 



How Two Lions stopped the building of an African Rail- 

 road 



Birds and Women 



115 



118 



124 

 124 



Notes. 



How Two Lions stopped an African Railroad. Law for 

 the Protection of Birds in the District of Columbia. Sea- 

 Birds a Sanifarj- Necessity. The Death of Wilhelm 

 Engelhard. The Death of Canon John Christopher 

 Atkinson. The Death of Dr. Bernard Ahum. The 

 Death of St. George Mivart. The Death of George B. 

 Sennett 



Literature. 



Faune des Vertebres de La Suisse. Fur and Feather 

 Tales 



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