CONTENTS 



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An Intimate Acquaintance with Woodcocks Gerard Alan Abbott 1 



A Time with the Owls Dr. E, W. Shufeldt 6 



PlED-BIliLED Geebe Notes Ira N. Gabrielson 13 



The Boll op the Log-cock or Pileated Woodpecker Ernest W. Viekers 15 



Winter Conditions in Northern Ohio, Winter of 1913-14 Lynds Jones 18 



The Effect on the Birds in the Opening of the Park and the Building 



op the Eeservoies in the Vicinity of Youngstown, Ohio 



Geo. L. Fordyce 20 



A Brief History op the Wilson Ornithological Club Lynds Jones 23 



Die Vogel Handbuch dee Systematischen Ornithologie. von Dr. Anton 



Reichenow. a Critique Eev. W. F. Henninger 27 



Bird Surgery Harold H. Bailey 36 



Editorial Page 38 



Minutes op the First Meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Club 41 



Field Notes: Unusual Central Ohio Occixrences; Queer Practices op 



Wood Thrushes; Sandpiper Notes j the Guide to Nature 44 



Publications Eeviewed 47 



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