August, 1899 



CONTENTS 



Frontispiece — Nesting Site of Cliff or Eave Swallows H. W. Menke . . 



Photographing Shy Wild Birds and Beasts at Home. Illustrated . R. Kearton, F. Z S. . . 107 



Two Nova Scotia Photographs. Illustrated C. Will Beebe . .113 



In the Spartina with the Swallows. Illustrated ... O. Widmann . 115 



Watching the Bittern 'Pump' Bradford Torrey 123 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



\ C. HaP'l Merriam, William Brewstei', and others 125 

 Fall Migration at Portland, Conn John H. Sage . . 128 



. Witmer Stone, J. A. Allen, Robert Ridgway, 

 Hints to Young Bird Students ' 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Mr. Flicker Writes a Letter. Verse. Illus. by Ernest W. Smith Garrett Newkirk . . 1:9 

 Zip and Phoebe. Illustrated Florence A. Van Sunt . . 130 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 132 



Birds through a Telescope, Frank M. Chapman; The Cardinal in Maine, Ella Gilbert 

 Ives; A Useful Bird. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS i33 



Kearton's 'Wild Life at Home'; Mrs. Grant's Economic Value of Birds; Nash's Birds 

 OF Ontario; Howe's 'On the Birds' Highway'; Palmer's ' Danger of Introducing 

 Noxious Animals and Birds'; Judo's ' Birds as Weed Destroyers'; Beal's 'Economic 

 Relation of Birds'; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 135 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 136 



Editorial; American Society of Bird Restorers; Massachusetts Society; Connecti- 

 cut Society; Tennessee Society. 



^*^ Bird- Lore is piiblished at Englewood, New Jersey, on the first of the month, where, all 

 notices of change of address, manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and 

 exchanges should be sent. 



PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



The cno.st important paper in Bird-Lore for October will be an illustrated article on the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, by its first president, J. A. Allen, which will be of especial 

 interest to all bird students. 



