Mx^ - lore 



November - December, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — White-winged Junco, Slate-colored Junco and 



Oregon Junco Louis Agasxiz Fuertes. . 



Bird Life in Southern Illinois. Illustrated by the author. /?o6fr/ Ridgway.. 40Q 



Kingfisher with Small Sucker. Illustration Arthur A. Allen.. 420 



Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Illustrated by the author. .. . 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 421 



On the Trail of the Evening Grosbeak. Illustrated by the author 



Arthur A. Allen. . 420 



Bird-Lore's Fifteenth Christmas Bird Census 437 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Thirty-first Paper. Illustrated 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W . W . Cooke. . 438 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Thirtieth Paper. .. . 



Frank M. Chapman. . 442 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 444 



Notes from Rochester, N. Y., Wm. L. G. Edson; Wasps in Bird-Boxes, R. F. 

 O'Neal; Harris's Sparrow at Rantoul, Illinois, George E. Ekblaw; The 

 Starling in Maine, Wm. Fuller; Instincts of a Parrot, R. F. Ilauknbeck; 

 Little Blue Heron in New Jersey, R. F. Haulenbeck; The Whisper Song of 

 the Catbird, /. William Lloyd; Prothonotary Warbler in Massachusetts, 

 Isabclle Alexander Robry; Mud for Nest-B jilders, T. H. Whitney; Acadian 

 Chickadee at Groton, Mass., .S. Warren Sturgis; Occurrence of the Acadian 

 Chickadee in the Hudson Valley, Maunsell S. Crosby; Loss of the Vesper 

 Sparrow, at Orient, L. I., Roy Latham; Notes from Hartford, Conn., 

 Geo. T. Grisu'old. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 451 



Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of North American Rails and Their 

 Allies;' Kalmbach's 'Birds in Relation to the Alfalfa Weevil;' Dela- 

 mare's 'The Reformation of Jimmy and Some Others;' The Ornithologi- 

 cal magazines. 



EDITORIAL 454 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 455 



A Christmas Message to Audubon Societies; For Teachers and Pupils; 

 From Young Observers (Illus.). 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 77. The Crow. With colored plate by Allan 



Brooks T. Gilbert Pearson. . 466 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 470 



The Annual Meeting; Photographing Birds' Nests (Illus.); Training Wild 

 Bighorns (Illus.). 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIE- 

 TIES FOR 1914 481 



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