I&irli - lore 



March -April, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Bush-Tits, Verdin, and Wren-Tit 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 

 The World's Record for Density of Bird Population. Illustrated by the 



author Gilbert E. Grosvenor . . 77 



The Robin in Yosemite. Verse Garrett Newkirk . . 84 



The Spring Migration of 19x5 at Raleigh, N. C.S. C. Bruner and C. S. Brimley. . 85 



First Efforts at Bird Photography. Illustrated by the author 



H. Tra Hartshorn.. 88 



Long-eared Owl on Nest. Illustration H. and E. Pittman. . 91 



The Interesting Barn Owl. Illustrated by the author. . .Joseph W. Lippincott. . 92 



Photographs of Flickers '. Arthur A. Allen. . 96 



The Migration of North American Birds. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



W. W. Cooke. . 97 



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



Frank M. Chapman. . 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 100 



A Correction; Hints for Bird Clubs, W. M. Buswell; Ornithological Pos- 

 sibilities OF a Bit of Swamp Land, Arthur P. Stubbs; My Neighbor's 

 Sparrow Trap, Charles R. Keyes; A Tropical Migration Tragedy; A 

 Shower of Birds, R. L. Tripp; A Heron's Involuntary Bath, John R. 

 Tooker; Winter Notes From Carlisle, Ind., /. E. Gilliland; Notes from 

 Nebraska, Eoward Paret; A Gannet over the Hudson River, /. T. Nichols; 

 Petrels on the Hudson, F. M. Chapman; Starling in Ohio, Sheridan 

 T. Wood; Evening Grosbeaks and Cardinals in Southern Wis- 

 consin, Ethel A. Nott; Evening Grosbeaks at Port Henry, N. Y., Dora 

 B. Earris; Evening Grosbeak at Glen Falls, N. Y., E. Eveleen Eathaway; 

 Evening Grosbeaks at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Jacolyn Manning, M. D.; 

 The Evening Grosbeak at Boston, E. G. and R. E. Robbins; Evening Gros- 

 beaks at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., George W. Gray; Evening Grosbeaks in 

 Lexington, Mass., Winsor M. Tyler, M. D.; Evening Grosbeaks in Ver- 

 mont, L. E. Potter; Evening Grosbeaks in Connecticut, Mary Eazen 

 Arnold; Martin Problems, May S. Banner; A Bold Winter Wren, Edward 

 J. F. Marx. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS no 



Grinnell's Distributional List of California Birds; Taverner on the 

 Food Habits of Cormorants; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 112 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 113 



Bird and Arbor Day — An Awakening, A. E. W.; Junior Audubon Work; 

 Ways of Keeping up Interest in Bird Study; For and From Adult 

 AND Young Observers, Red-wing Blackbird. Ills. 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 85. Chestnut-sided Warbler. With colored plate 



by Bruce Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson. . 128 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 132 



A Case in Point; A Feeding-Shelf; Photographing Water-Fowl; Birds and 

 THE Cold Spell; Florence Merriam Bailey; New Members and Con- 

 tributors; The Virginia Game Bill; Notes From the Field. 



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