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Bird-Lore's special aim during the coming year will be to assist 

 teachers and students of birds by telling them just what to study and 

 just what to teach at the proper season. It will, therefore, publish a 

 series of articles, on the birds of a number of localities including the 

 vicinity of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco. 

 To these will be added 'Suggestions for the Month's Study' and 'Sug- 

 gestions for the Month's Reading'; such subjects as migration, mating, 

 singing, nesting, molting, etc., being considered in their due time. The 

 whole thus forms a definite plan of study which, it is believed, will be of 

 the utmost value to the instructor, to the independent observer, and to 

 bird-clubs and natural history societies. In this connection much assis- 

 tance will be rendered by Bird-Lore's Advisory Council composed of ov- 

 er fifty prominent ornithologists, residing throughout the United States 

 and Canada, who have consented to respond to requests for information 

 and advice. 



While a number of the more general articles for the year will bear 

 on the months' subject for study, as, for instance. Dr. Dwight's paper 

 on 'How Birds Molt,' there will also be contribtions of wide popular 

 interest, among the more important of which may be mentioned an ad- 

 dress on Audubon, by Dr. Elliott Coues; letters written by Audubon in 

 1827; John Burroughs' list of his rarer bird visitors; Frank M. Chap- 

 man's fully illustrated account of a bird-nesting expeditiori with this 

 genial naturalist; Ernest Sston-Thompson's 'How to Know the Hawks 

 and Owls' (illustrated); Tudor Jenks' 'From an Amateur's Point of 

 View;' T. S. Palmer's 'Ostrich Farming in America' (illustrated); F. A. 

 Lucas' 'Birds of Walrus Island,' with remarkable illustrations; H. W. 

 Henshaw's 'Impressions of Hawaiian Birds;' C. Will Beebe's illustrated 

 account of some of the birds under his charge at the New York Zoolog- 

 ical Garden, and an important paper on 'Bird Protection in Great Brit- 

 ain,' by Montagu Sharpe, chairman of the English Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Birds. 



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