jSirli - lore 



January-February, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Ground Dove. To illustrate Educational Leaflet which will 



appear in the succeeding issue of Bird-Lore Bruce Horsfall. . 



The Ring-Necked Phe.a.s.\nt. Illustrated Verdi Burkh. . i 



Black Duck. Illustration Frank Levy . . 4 



Bobbie Y.ank. Illustrated Katrine Blackinton . . 5 



The St.aghorn Sumac. Illustrated E. A. DooUttle. . S 



Cl.ay-Colored Sparrow. Illustration II. ^ S. Pittman. . 10 



Red-Poll. Gre.at Horned Owl. Illustration H. &= S. Piltman . . n 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 12 



BIRD-LORE'S TWENTIETH CHRISTMAS CENSUS Edited by J. T. Nichols. . 14 



THE SEASON. XVIL October 15 to December 15, 1919 4(>' 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 5.; 



Annual Report Biological Survey; HirosoN's 'Book of the Naturalist'; Tavi:k- 

 ner's 'Birds of Eastern Canada'; Burns' 'Birds of Chester County.' 



EDITORIAL 55 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 56 



Cooperation; How to Build Bird-Houses. Illustrated. 



A. A. Allen; Feathered Allies. How We Became Junior Naturj\lists. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 71 



The Klamath Lake Situation; Politics in Oregon; Bird Lectures; Charles Henry 

 Davis (Illus.); Bird-Work and the Children; New Life and Sustaining Members. 



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 to the Editor, at I he A merican Museum of Natural History, ^-tli St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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