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November-December, 1920 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Cowbirds Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



A Partridge Don Quixote. Illustrated Howard H. Cleaves. . 329 



Why Do Birds Bathe? Ernest Thompson Seton. . 334 



The BoAT-BLnsTD in the Snow. Illustrated .' Guy A. Bailey. . 336 



A Winter Chronicle, 1918-19 Katharine Upham Hunter. . 340 



The Migration of North American Birds. XIV. Cowbirds H . C . Oberholser . . 343 



Bird-Lore's Twenty-first Christmas Bird Census 346 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds Frank M. Chapman. . 347 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 348 



Snow-Bathing, R. Owen Merriman; Bird-Notes from Dutchess County, N. Y., Mary 

 Hyatt; A Centenarian Bird-Lover, Mrs. M. R. Merriman; The Snow-Birds, Mary A. 

 Hunt; W^iNTER Notes from Andover, N. J., F. Blanche Hill; Some Florida Records, 

 Lester W. Smith; The Screech Owl as a Sparrow-Trap, Frei J. Pierce; A Colony of 

 Three-toed Woodpeckers, Charles L. Whittle; A Junco with Strange Markings, 

 Wm. J. Cariwright; Cedar Waxwings at Hollywood, Calif., Mrs. Robert Fargo; 

 Chickadees and Bacon, Alice A . Noyes; Feeding the Chickadees, Elizabeth 

 S. Smith; Eagles and Other Birds Near Troy, N. Y., Clarence Houghton. 



THE SEASON. XXIL August 15 to October 15, 1920 355 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; H. C. Oberholser; Harry Harris; Thos.S. 

 Roberts; W. H. Bcrgtold; Amelia S. Allen; Francis B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 363 



Swarth's 'Revision of the Avian Genus Passerella with Special Reference to the 

 Distribution and Migration of the Races in California'; Brooks's 'The Food of 

 West Virginia Birds'; Silloway's 'Guide to the Summer Birds of the Bear Moun- 

 tain AND Harriman Park Sections of the Palisades Interstate Park'; The Orni- 

 thological Mag.\zines. 



EDITORIAL 366 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHO OL DEPARTMENT 367 



Winter Birds' Nests, ^ . .4 . ^1 .; From Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 375 



Annual Meeting; President-Elect Harding for Bird-Protection; A National 

 Hunting License; Thumbs Down for Malheur Lake. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIE- 

 TIES FOR 1920 379 



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