Fhe Warbler 



Bulletin of the John Lewis Childs Museum and Library of 

 Natural History 



Vol. vii, 1913 



Published by John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y. 



CON TEN T S 



Plate 1 — Eggs of the Knot - - - - 1 



A Theoretical Analysis of the Colors of Familiar 



Warblers ---.-- Z. 



By John Treadwell Nichols 



A Nesting Season in Nova Scotia - 9 



By Harold F. Tufts 



Plate 1 1 — An Apparently Heretofore Unfigured Plum- 

 age of Conuropsis carcliensis - - 13 

 By Henry Thurston 



Japs Not Responsible for the Bird Slaughter on Layson 14 

 By John Lewis Childs 



A Collecting Trip to Little Diomede Island - 15 



By Johan Koren 



Notes on the Nesting of Bobwhite at Flowerfield, L. I. 20 

 By John Lewis Childs 



Wilson's Plover - - - - 22 



By Henry Thurston 



The Depredations of Cats on Muskeget Island - 25 



By G K. Noble 



The Bartramian Sandpiper — Is it Coming Back ? 26 



Long Island Bird Notes - - - 27 



By Childs and Thurston 



Notes Extending Dates of Arrival and Departure of 



Certain Species on Long Island - - 29 



By Henry Thurston 



Long Island Notes - - - - 32 



By John Treadwell A T ichols and Robert Cushman Murphy 



