Mx^ - lore 



November-December, 1916 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color— Cactus, Canon, Carolina, Rock, and Guadalupe Rock 



Wrens Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Winter Bird Photography. Illustrated Clarence F. Stone. . 351 



Dick, the Sandhill Crane Florence Merriam Bailey. . 355 



Observations on Woodpeckers Will O. Doolitile. . 357 



A House Wren Record. Illustrated Hubert Prescott. . 360 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Forty-first Paper. . W. DeW. Miller. . 362 



Bird-Lore's Seventeenth Christmas Bird Census 363 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 365 



KiLLDEER Breeding in Eastern Massachusetts, Arthur P. Stuhhs; An Upland Plover's 

 Nest, Katharine Upham Hunter; Bob-White in the West, John B. Thompson; Notes 

 on a Flicker Homestead, Virginia S. Williams; The Prairie Horjsted Lark in Sum- 

 mer, E. Louise Mace; Evening Grosbeaks and a Wood Duck in Maine, Norman Lewis; 

 Evening Grosbeaks and Others at a Michigan Feeding- Station, M. J. Magee; 

 Winter Notes from British Columbia, Stanley Boys; Mockingbirds Nesting in 

 Massachusetts, Mabel Comstock; Rough-winged Swallows in Essex County, Mass., 

 John B. May, M.D.; Warblers Breeding About Atlanta, Ga., Wm. H. LaPrade, 

 Jr.; A Census of Forty Acres in Indiana, Martha Waters; Js This a Record with Blue- 

 birds? Joseph W. Lippincott; Bird Rest-Perches on Lighthouses; Thirty-fourth 

 Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS :. 376 



Forbush's 'The Natural Enemies of Birds', and 'Food Plants to Attract Birds 

 and Protect Fruit;' Cooke's 'Second Annual Report of Bird Counts in the United 

 States, with Discussion of Results;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL • 379 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 380 



The Winter Robin (Verses); A Christmas Tree for the Birds (Illustrated), Annetta 

 S. Merrill; Junior Audubon Work; For and From Adult and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 89. Black-necked Stilt. With Colored Plate by Bruce 



Horsfall T; Gilbert Pearson. . 394 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 398 



Twelfth Annual Meeting; A Ground-nesting Flicker (Illustrated); A British Co- 

 lumbian Reserve; Broadening Bird-Study; Enthusiasm in Ohicj; How Madison 

 Helps; Stuart Acres as a Bird Community; New Members. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION QF AUDUBON 



SOCIETIES FOR 1916 [ . 405 



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