irti ^ lore 



May-June, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 Frontisi'iiccf, in Color. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckee. (See Educational Leaflet, p. i88.) 



; Edmund J. Sawyer. . 



Spring Thunder. Illustrated ■ . . .' H. E. Tuttle. . 139 



Short-eared Owl. Illustrated /. //. McClelland. . 142 



Cedar Farm and Two Wrens Anna Rogers Roberts. . 143 



Two Portraits of a Sitting Woodcock Ward B. Perky, Jr.. . 146 



SoMi', Robins' Nests. Illustrated Wilbur F. Smith. . 147 



Cki:sii:i) Flycatcher. Illustrated Jesse L. Smith. . 150 



,\ All cii-usED Robin's Nest. Illustrated A. P. DuBois. . 151 



Two Fox Sparrow Photographs Verdi Burtch and A. A. Jefrey. . 154 



The Way of the Wren Katrine Blackinton. . 155 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 157 



Bird-banding by the Biological Survey, E. W . Nelson; Winter Notes from West 

 Mkdi'ord, Mass., Lidian E. Bridge; Evening Grosbeaks .^vt Boston, F. C. Powell; 

 FvKNiNG Grosbeaks at Ny.-\ck, N. Y., Mary L. Emery; Winter Birds at Ridgewood, 

 NTJ., F. de la M. Bunce; Migration of Ducks and Geese at Winthrop, Iowa.. F. J. 

 Pierce; Purple Gallinule in Connecticut, C. W. Packard, M.D.; An Odd Note of 

 the Blue Jay, Winsor M. Tyler; Blue Jays vs. Mouse, G. Gill; Mouse and Blue Jay. 

 Lizzie N. Douglas; Twenty-one Warblers in a Day, Richard M. Chase; What Killed 

 Cock Robin? Lilian Rea McCormick; Mrs. Wren Puts Her Family to Bed in a Robin's 

 Nest, Mrs. J. Elsworth Jackson; Bluebirds vs. Wrens, Mrs. .Irlhiir F. Gardner; .\ Con- 

 fltsion of Instincts, Mrs. Arthur F. Gardner; .\ Clever Robin, Mary T. Barrett; Wrens 

 Drive .\way English Sparrows, Nettie Randall. 



THE SEASON. XX. February 15 to April 15 165 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 174 



Hudson's 'Birds in Town and Village' and 'Adventl^res Among Birds'; Ornithological 

 ^Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 176 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 177 



Learning Birds' Songs (Illustrated), ^I. .-I. Allen; House to Let, Kathryn Quarlcs; A 

 Pair of Robins, C. B. Fish; An Experience with Cardinals, Roy Mander; Bluebirds 

 Drive .\way Sparrows, E. F. Dana and C. P. Emerson. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 102. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Colored Frontispiece 



by Kdmund J . Sawyer T. Gilbert Pearson iSS 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 192 



IMiGRATORY Bird Tre.vty S.-\fe; Text of Supreme Court Opinion; Bird Tre.\ties with 

 Other Countries; Audubon Feather Exhibits; Taming Wild Birds (Illustrated), 

 Etta S. Wilson; Meriden Bird Club; Birds Poisoned; New Audubon Societies; 

 Audubon's Collection; New Members. 



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 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, r^lh St. and Sth Ave., New York City. 



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