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matter, while non-technical, is scientifically accurate, and its methods for 

 popularizing the study of ornithology are devised with excellent fore- 

 thought, and provide instruction on broad and well-systematized lines. 

 The editor's experience as an investigator, and lecturer on ornithology, 

 and his enthusiasm as a bird-lover, fit him especially for the task of edit- 

 ing a magazine of the scope and purpose of ' Bird-Lore.' The magazine 

 consists of the following departments: 'General Articles,' of varied 

 scope, mostly contributed by well-known writers on ornithology; 'For 

 Teachers and Students,' mostly editorial matter; ' For Young Observers '; 

 'Notes from Field and Study'; 'Book News and Reviews,' including 

 notices of the leading ornithological magazines, and of the leading papers 

 and books on both technical and popular ornithology; 'Editorial'; and 

 'Audubon Department,' edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright. In the 

 following notice of Volume IV, for 1902,' it will be impossible to mention 

 more than a few of the leading articles of each number. 



January-February number, general articles : ' Recollections of Elliolt 

 Coues,' by D. G. Elliot, with portrait of Coues at twenty-one; ' Cones at 

 his First Army Post,' by Capt. C. A. Curtis, U. S. A. (retired) ; ' Extract 

 from Journal of Elliott Coues' First Journey to the West' (from Am. Nat., 

 June, 1871); ' The Western Evening Grosbeak,' bj- Wm. Rogers Lord; 

 ' Bird Clubs in America. T. The Nuttall Club,' by Francis H. Allen 

 (illustrated with a full-page photograph of the Nuttall Club in session) ; 

 ' Bird-Lore's Advisory Council ' (giving names and addresses of the 63 

 members of the Council); 'How to Name the Birds. Studies of the Fami- 

 lies of the Passeres,' by Frank M. Chapman (a series of illustrated papers 

 running through the year) ; 'The Christmas Bird Census ' (reports from 

 numerous correspondents giving lists of birds observed on Christmas day, 

 1901, at many widely separated localities). ' For Young Observei^s,' con- 

 tains a ' prize essay' on the Crow, by Fred T. Morrison (aged n). Then 

 follows: 'Book News and Reviews,' including reviews of Ridgway's 

 'Birds of North and Middle America,' Part I, the 'Proceedings of the 

 Nebi'aska Ornithologists' Union,' Seton's ' Lives of the Hunted,' and 

 Kellogg's 'Elementary Zoology,' by the editor, and of ' The Condor," by 

 ' T. S. P.,' and 'The Osprej^' by 'A. K. F.' A page of short editorials, 

 and ' The Audubon Societies' complete the number, this latter depart- 

 ment including 'A Midwinter Meditation,' by Mrs. Wright (pp. 37-39), 



' Bird-Lore. An Illustrated Bi-monthly Magazine devoted to the Study and 

 Protection of Birds. Edited by Frank M. Chapman. Official Organ of the 

 Audubon Societies. Audubon Department edited by Mabel Osgood Wright. 

 Vol. IV, 1902. The Macmillan Company, Harrisburg, Pa., and New York 

 City. Royal 8vo, pp. i-viii -|- 1-208. Subscription rates. United States, 

 Canada and Mexico, 20 cents a number, $1.00 a year; in all countries in the 

 International Postal Union, 25 cents a number, $1.25 a year, post-paid. 



