OFFICERS OF THE 



VERMONT BIRD CLUB, 1914 



Pkesident Dr. G. H. Perkins, Burlington 



Vice-President Dr. L. H. Ross, Bennington 



Sfcretary Mr. Carlton D. Howe, Morrisville 



Treasurer Mr. Jay G. Underwood, Hartland 



Editor of Bulletin 

 Mrs. A. B. Morgan, Woodstock. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



List of Officers 2 



Table of Contents 2 



The Annual Winter Meeting 3 



New Members of the Bird Club 4 



Treasurer's Report 5 



Extract from the Shiras-Weeks-McLean Migratory Bird Law 6 



Local Nature Clubs in Vermont — Jay G. Underwood 7 



Relation of Nature Clubs to the Schools — Dr. H. F. Perkins 11 



Nesting of the Short-billed Marsh Wren in Vermont — H. G. Rugg. . . .13 



Birds of the West Indies — Josephine S. Brown 14 



"Pitty Babe" (Merula Migratoria) — Cora G. B. Field 15 



Notes on Nesting Habits of Duck Hawks in Rutland County — 



D. E. Kent . 23 



Notes on Nesting Habits of the Song Sparrow^G. W. Fuller 24 



Notes on Birds — Edith M. Esterbrook 25 



Notes on Florida Birds — Evaline D. Morgan 26 



Blue Birds— F. H. Hart 29 



Henslow's Sparrow in Vermont — G. L. Kirk 30 



■Birds of Bennington and Vicinity — Dr. L. H. Ross 31 



Pointers 43 



Notes 44 



An Ecological Study of the Song Sparrow — Dr. H. F. Perkins 51 



