i&irli lore 



April, 1899 



CONTENTS 



Frontispikce— LuAST BiTTKRN, Nkst AND Eggs. Ffoni a Pliotograph by E. G. Tabor. 

 The Camera as an Aid in the Study of Birds. Illustrated. Concluded from February 



Number . . . .... Dr. Thomas S. Roberts 35 



X Least Bittern Portrait. Illustrated E. G Tabor . 39 



Loons at Home. Illustrated William Dutcher . .40 



Photographing a Bluebird. Illustrated Robert W. Hegner . .43 



A Tragic St. Valentine's Day . . . Annie Trnmbttll Slosson 45 



Clark's Crows and Oregon Jays on Mount Hood. Illustrated. T'lorence A. Merriam 46 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Suggestions for Bird-Day Programs in the Schools C. A. Babcock . .49 



Summer Boarders for Boys and Girls . 31 



A Bird -Day Program . . Elizabeth I'. Brown .54 



Migration Tables for April and May Dr. A. K. Eisher . 52 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The Legend of the Salt. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman 55 



The February Walk Contest .... • . 57 



A February Walk in Central Park Floyd C. Noble . . 57 



The Myth of the Song Sparrow. Illustrated Ernest Seton Thompson . . 59 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 60 



Sparrow-Proof Houses. Illustrated. D. R. Geery ; A Musical Woodpecker, D. L. 

 Burnett; An Ornithologist at S.\n Ju.^n. 



BOOK NE-WS AND REVIEWS . 61 



Sharpe's ' Skhtch Book of British Birds'; Stone's Report on Bird Protection; 

 'Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society';' Bulletin of the Cooper 

 Ornithological Club ' ; M.\ynard's N.-\ture Study in Schools ' ; A new book by 

 Mrs. Miller; Ernest Seton Thompson's 'Wild Animals I Have Known'; Clark's 

 'Bird T.ablets ' ; A book by the origin.ator of Bird -Day. 



EDITORIALS 63 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 64 



Editorial; A Letter fro.m Governor Roosevelt: Reports from the Pennsylvania, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota Societies. 



*** Bird- Lore is published at Enfflewood, J\'e7c> Jersey, where all manuscripts intended for 

 pnhlications, books, etc., for revie7c', and exchanges should be mailed in care of the Editor, 

 Frank 71/ Chapman. 



PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



The uue.xpectedly large demand for the first number of Bird -Lore has so nearly exhausted 

 the edition it has been deemed advisable to reserve the few remaining copies for subscribers to 

 the volume. 



Bird-Lore for June will contain an article by Olive Thorne Miller entitled, 'The Ethics of 

 Caging Birds'; a poem by Edith M Thomas; the conclusion of Miss Merriam's article; an account 

 of a visit to .Audubon's birthplace, by Otto Widmann ; unusually interesting papers on tlie Cardinal 

 and Chimney Swift, and some remarkable bird pictures, including one by Dr. Roberts. 



