﻿i&trti-lore 



July -August, 1906 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Olive, Lucy and Virginia Warblers .... Louis Agassiz Fuertes . 



A Kingbird Family. Illustrated A. D. Whedon . 117 



My Experience With a Blue-headed Vireo Emily R. Lyman . 123 



Towhee and Young. Illustration R . H. Beebe . 124 



Nests of the Cassique. Illustration 125 



A Bit of Robin History. Illustrated .... Eugenia Chapman Gillette . 126 



Not of a Feather. Verse Florence A. Van Sant . 130 



Young Bank Swallows. Illustration J. H. Miller 130 



The Yellow-breasted Chat. Illustrated P. A. Taverner . 131 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



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



Bruce Horsfall . .... II'. II'. Cooke 134 



Nest of Blue-winged Teal, Covered and Uncovered. Illustration .... F. M. C . 135 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY .... ... .... 136 



'Nothing New Under the Sun,' illustrated. Witmer Stone: A Little Black Rail in 

 Massachusetts, Stanley Cobb; Martins and English Sparrows, A. IV. Honywill;. 

 Do Snakes Charm Birds?, J. Parsons Schaeffer ; Photographing a Red-Tailed 

 Hawk's Nest, Wilbur F. Smith ; Notes from Plainfield, New Jersey, 11'. DeW. Miller. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 139 



EDITORIAL 141 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 142 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 21. Scarlet Tanager. Witli Colored Plate 147 



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