j&irti - lore 



July-August, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES -^ ' page 



Frontispiece in Color^Staeling anp' Bobolink Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Photographing, the Scarlet Tanager. Illustrated C.W. Leister. . 203 



A Gnatcatcher's Troubles ^ .R. D. Book, M.D.. . 208 



A Curious Nesting Habit of the Tufted Titmouse James P. Baker, Jr.. . 211 



Nighthawk. Photograph Dr. A. H. Cordier. . 212 



The Migration of North American Birds. XIII. European Starling and Bobolink. 



Harry C. Oberholser . . 213 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fifty-seventh Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 216 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 218 



A Town of Five Thrushes, Helen G. Whittle; American Egret in Vermont, Emily Field 

 Kellogg; An Early Egg of Virginia Rail on Long Island, Roy Latham; Duck Hawks 

 in New York City, Nathan CI i ford Brown; Some Observations on the Osprey, Alice 

 K. Meloy; Saw-Whet Owl at Branchport, N. Y., Clarence F. Stone; Kentucky Notes, 

 Gordon Wilson; Blue Grosbeak at Newtown, Pa., Russell Richardson; Blue Grosbeak 

 at Rock Island, Ills., Genevieve Zimmer; Belated Evening Grosbeaks, Martha 

 McMorran; Evening Grosbeaks Like Sumac Berries, Mrs. H. W . Abraham; Bohemian 

 Waxwing in Maine, Winijred Holway Palmer; The Window Visitor, Lester W. Smith; 

 An Adaptable Robin, George Roberts, Jr.; The Warbling Vireo in Southern Rhode 

 Island, Edward H. Perkins. 



THE SEASON. XX. April 15 to June 15, 1920 225 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Lynds Jones; Thomas 

 S. Roberts, M.D.; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold; Amelia S. Allen; L. E. Wyman. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 235 



Finn's 'Bird Behaviour, Psychical and Physiological'; Oberholser and McAtee on 

 'Water-fowl and Their Food Plants in Nebraska'; Bartsch's 'Birds Observed on 

 the Florida Keys and the Southern End of the Mainland of Florida in igig'; 

 Baldwin's 'Bird-Banding by Means of Systematic Trapping', from Abstract of 

 Proceedings of Linn^ean Society of New York; Pemberton's 'Second Ten-Year 

 Index to The Condor'; Horsfall on 'The Sage Grouse.' 



EDITORIAL 237 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 238 



Studying Blrds' Eggs; The Eggs of Birds, A. A. A.; For and from .Adult and Young 

 Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 252 



William Butcher; Eagles of Alaska; Junior Autjubon Societies; Exploring for 

 New Bird Colonies, Illustrated, T. Gilbert Pearson; Our National Parks Thre.atened, 

 Another Cat Ordinance; New Members. 



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