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January - February, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES p 



Frontispiece in Color — Redpolls and Purple Finches 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Second Paper. Tinamous, 



Quails and Solitaires. Illustrated Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Notes on How to Start a Colony of Purple Martins. Illustrated 



Thos. L. McConnell . . 



Winter Feeding. Illustrated W. L. Skinner. . 



City Nighthawks. Illustrated Clinton G. A bbott . . 



Some Results of Bird-Lore's Christmas Census. Illustrated. 



H. Perkins. . is 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-sixth Paper. Illustrated 



Wells W. Cooke. . 19 

 Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-fifth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 24 



A Co-operative Study of Bird Migration Frank M. Chapman. . 25 



Bird-Lore's Fourteenth Christmas Census 26 



NOTES ON WINTER BIRDS 51 



Evening Grosbeaks in Michigan, Ralph Beebe; Evening Grosbeaks in Chicago, 

 Locke Mackenzie and Wilfred Lyon; Evening Grosbeak and Acadian Chicka- 

 dee at Hartford, Conn., George F. Griswold; Acadian Chickadee at Hart- 

 ford, Conn., Arthur G. Powers; Herring Gull on Western Island, Lake 

 Champlain, N. Y., Illustration. B. S. Bowdish. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 54 



Report of Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey for the Year Ending June 

 30, 1913, by Henry W. Henshaw; Grinnell and Swarth's 'An Account of the 

 Birds and Mammals of the San Jacinto Area of Southern California;' 

 Gurney's 'The Gannet;' Sage and Bishop's 'The Birds of Connecticut;' 

 Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 58 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 59 



Signs of the Times; For Teachers and Pupils; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 72. The Wood Thrush. With colored plate by Louis 



Agassis Fuertes T. Gilbert Pearson. . 68 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 72 



Egret Protection for 1914; To Amend the Plumage Law; The Silz Case; 

 England's Plumage Bill; New Members; Notes from the Field; Mr. 

 Bowdish. 



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