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trtMlore 



January - February, 1906 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pace 



Frontispiece — Bachman's, Worm-eating, and Swainson's War bi krs . Louis Agassis Fuertes 



An Experience in Tree-top Photography. Illustrated Bert Francis Case . i 



My Chickadee Family. Illustrated Marion Bole . 6 



Woodcock on Nest. Illustration by E. Van Altena . 9 



The Dipper in Colorado. Illustiated Evan Levuis . 10 



Meadowlark and Bartram's Sandpiper and Eggs F. M. C. . 11 



The Little Green Heron. Illustrated Rett E. Olmstead . 12 



The Sixth Christmas Bird Census 14 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Migration of Warblers. Fourteenth Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 



Bruce Horsfall W. IV. Cooke . 26 



Screech Owl. Illustrated F. M. C . 27 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 2S 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



(Omitted to make space for the Christmas Census.) 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 30 



Judd's Economic Value of Grouse and Wild Turkeys. McAtee on Hokned Larks 

 in Their Relation to Agriculture ; Reed's Bird Guide ; The Ornithological Maga- 

 zines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 33 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT . . 24 



Notice to Members; The Bradley Murder; The Mrs. Bradley Fund; Reservation 

 News; Millinery and Aigrettes. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 18. The Cardinai. With Colored Plate 39 



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