l&irli lore 



March -April, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



I'"k()ntispiece in Color — House Finches Lotus Agassiz Fuerles . . 



The Electric Current in Bird-Photography. Illustrated. .. .Guy A. Bailey . . 85 



The Song of the Philadelphia Vireo Mr.i. Eliza F. Miller. . 03 



Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Third Paper. Orioles, Fly- 

 catchers, Finches, and Thrushes. Illustrated Louis Agassiz Fuerles. . 96 



The Song Sparrow. Verse Laura F. Beall . . loi 



Some Ways of the Oregon Towhee. Illustrated Mrs. Stephen E. Thayer.. 102 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-seventh Paper. Illus- 

 trated Wells W. Cooke . . 105 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-sixth Paper . . . 



Frank M. Chapman . . 107 



Bird-Lore's .\dvisory Council 108 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY no 



Red Bird Days, Dr. and Mrs. T. P. Hagerty, Mrs. and Mr. J. 11. Sprague, and 

 Dr. and Mrs. G. H. Luedlke; Bird Notes from Kennett Square, Pa., C 

 Aubrey Thomas; Notes from Ohio, E. A. Doolittle; Notes on the Black- 

 crowned Night Heron and other Birds at Orient, L. I., Roy Latham; 

 Problem in Food Supply and Distribution, Harrison F. Lewis; Evening 

 Grosbeaks and Other Winter Birds at Hartford, Conn., Geo. T. Gris- 

 wold; Wild Fowl at Sandusky Bay in 1756, Milo H. Miller; An Unsus- 

 picious Family of Great Horned Owls (Ills.), H. E. Anthony; Pileated 

 Woodpecker in Northern New Jersey, Edward G. Kent; The Diary of 

 a New Purple Martin Colony for the Season of 1913, Thomas L. Mc- 

 Connell; The Chickadee of Chevy Chase, 5. W. Mcllott; Winter Notes 

 FROM Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; A City Kept Awake by the Honking 

 OF Migrating Geese, L. B. Nice; Snowy Owl at Chillicothe, Missouri, Des- 

 mond Fopham; The Voice of the Tinamou, William Brewster. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 120 



Bryant's 'A Determination of the Economic Status of the Western Meadow- 

 lark (Sturnella neglecta) IN California;' Swarth's 'A Study of a Col- 

 lection OF Geese of the Branta canadensis Group from the San Joaquin 

 Valley, California;' Bulletin of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture No. 58; Five Important Wild Duck Foods, By W. L. McAtee; 

 Cuming's 'The Bodley Head Natural History;' Reichenow's 'Die Vogel 

 Handbuch der Systematischen Ornithologie; ' Comstock's 'Bird Note 

 Book;' Ornithological Magazines. 



A Cooperative Study of Bird Migration 123 



EDITORIAL 124 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 126 



Bird and Arbor Day; For Teachers and Pupils; from Adult and Yoltng 

 Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 73. The Whip-poor-will. With colored Plate by 



Brute Ilorsjall T. Gilbert Pearson . . 138 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 142 



Mr. Dutciier Honored; Feeding the Birds; Two Interesting Cases; Mr. 

 C. E. Brewster and Captured "Big Gun" (lllus.); Scaffold for Exe- 

 cuting Live Ducks in Virginia (lllus.); .'\lbert Willcox, Benefactor; 

 Mr. .\lbert Willcox (lllus.); F'lorence A. Howe: An Appreciation; A 

 Thank-Offering to Gulls; Mr. Ingersoll; Enforcing the New Federal 

 Law; Sea Gull Monument, Salt Lake City (lllus.); Plates of the Pedes- 

 tal, Gull Monument (lllus.): New Members; Letters from Correspond- 

 ents; Long Island Ducks Losing Fear of Man in Quest of Food, Dur- 

 ing Blizzard of February, 1914 (lllus.); Brush Hill (Mass.) Bird Club 

 Exhibit (lllus.). 

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