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November- December, 1906 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES PAGE 



Frontispiece — Black-throated Blue and Cerulean Warblers . Louis Agassiz Fuertes . 



The Wry-bill Plover of New Zealand. Illustrated Edgar F. Stead . 185 



Our Garden Mockingbird. Illustrated Mrs. F. W. Roe . 190 



Tame Wild Geese. Illustrated . Walter K. Fisher . 



Italian Bird-life as it Impresses an Amfrican Today. Illustrated . Fiona's H. Herrick . 



193 



196 



Group of Brandt's Cormorants. Illustration 202 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Migration of Warblers Nineteenth and Concluding Paper. Illustrated by Louis 



Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall IV. IV. Cooke . 203 



Bird-Lore's Seventh Christmas Bird Census 2 °6 



The Amount of Science in Oology Frank A. Frown . 206 



Bird-Lore's Colored Plates 20 7 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 2o8 



Bird Tragedies, Illustrated, B. S. Bowdish; Adirondack Notes, William M. Stiilman; 

 Remarkable Flight of Red-bellied Nuthatches, William Dutcher; The Blue Jay 

 as a Destroyer of Eggs and Young Birds. Caroline Gray Soule; A Nest Within a 

 Human Skull, Illustrated, R. B. Macniillau; Black Terns" Near New York City, W. 

 De W. Miller; Pine Siskins in Ohio, Josephine L. Parsons; Twkniy-i-ourth Congress 

 of the American Ornithologists* Union. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 2, 3 



Oberholser's North American Eagles; Cooke's Distribution and Migration of Ducks 

 and Geese; Hanks's Camp Kits and Camp Life ; Blatchley's 'Boulder Reveries'; 

 The Ornithological Magazines; Massachusetts Audubon Society Calendar; 

 Gerberding's Identification Note-book; Book News. 



EDITORIALS 2ID 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 21 7 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 23. The Killdeer. With Colored Plate 22 ° 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES 224 



SUPPLEMENT.- SPECIAL LEAFLET NO. 6. 

 Plate by Fuertes 



The Bartramian Sandpiper. With Colored 

 Abbott H. Thayer 



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New York Citv. N. Y 



Reduced facsimile of the reproduction of 

 Horsfall'9 colored drawing of the Evening Gros- 

 beak. Presented to every subscriber to Vol. 

 IX, 1907, of Bird-Lore. The original, 

 printed on heavy plate paper, suitable for 

 framing, is life-size. 



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