Mvo - lore 



September -October, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES Page 

 Frontispiece in Color — Worthen's Sparrow, Texas Sparrow, Green- 

 tailed TowHEE Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



Some Observations on Bird Protection in Germany. Illustrated 



William P. Wharton. . 330 

 An Island Home of the American Merganser. Illustrated.. .Francis Harper. . 338 

 Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Fifth Paper. — Toucans 



Cuckoos, Trogons, Motmots, and Their Allies. Illustrated 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 342 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Evelyn Smith. . 350 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Thirtieth Paper 



Wells W. Cooke.. 351 

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



Frank M. Chapman. . 352 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 353 



Brookline Bird Club, Charles B. Floyd; Martins and Other Birds at Greens 

 Farms, Connecticut, Charles H . Townsend; Food for the Birds, Mary Gibbs 

 Hinds; A Syracuse Feeding-Station, B. H. Coleman; Fall Migration at 

 Cobourg, Ontario, John P. Young; Nesting-habits of the Pied-billed 

 Grebe, Volney Rogers; Gulls Preparing a Meal, John Tooker; Herring 

 Gulls in Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; A Winter Pensioner, Margaret 

 S. Hitchcock; The Fare of a Sandhill Crane, Mrs. L. H . Toussainl; An 

 Abnormally Colored Scarlet Tanager, William Henry Trotter; The ' 

 Chat in Minnesota, Victoria M. Dill; Photograph of a Hummingbird 

 ON THE Wing, Frank Overton; The Building of a Robin's Nest, Miss Harriet 

 W. Thompson; A Robin Accident, Eliza F. Miller; Notes from Seattle, 

 Washington, Katharine M. Manny; Lake Mohonk to be a Bird Preserve, 

 Henry Oldys; A Successful Campaign Against Crackles and Starlings 

 IN Hartford, Connecticut, Lewis W. Ripley; Sparrow and Cowbird, 

 Illustration, Arthur A. Allen. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 365 



Eaton's 'Birds of New York;' Goldi on 'The Animal World of Switzer- 

 land;' Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 368 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 369 



The Value of a Definite Purpose; Suggestive Lessons in Bird Study; For 

 Teachers and Pupils; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 75. The Pintail. With Colored Plate by Allan 



Brooks Herbert K. Job . . 380 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 384 



A Department of Applied Ornithology; The Cruise of the Avocet (IIIus.); 

 Hosts of Herring Gulls; Terns and Their Troubles; Elusive Petrels; 

 Other Birds; What About the Cat (lllus.); Senator George P. McLean 

 (Illus.); Making Portland a Bird City (lllus.); First Bird Field-day; 

 Mrs. Harriet Myers and the Convalescent Phainopepla (lllus.); The 

 Last Passenger Pigeon (lllus.); Birds and the Army-worm; Status 

 of the Treaty With Canada; New Members and Contributors; 

 General Notes. 



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