j&irli lore 



- ' May -June, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Pine-Woods Sparrow, Botteri's Sparrow, Cassin's 



Sparrow, Rufous-winged Sparrow, Rueous-crowned Sparrow 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 

 Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. Fourth Paper. Ant-thrushes 



and Their Allies, and Woodhewers. Illustrated i6i 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



A Bird Sanctuary for The Sign of the Wren's Nest. Illustrated 



Mrs. J. O. Parmele.. 170 



The Baltimore Oriole. Verse Nellie J. Wharples . . 171 



The Nighthawk in Connecticut. Illustrated 



Lewis F. Hall and Wilbur I. Smith. . 173 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-Eighth Paper 



Wells W. Cooke. . 176 

 Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-Seventh 



Paper Frank M. Chapman . . 178 



A Co-operative Study of Bird Migration 180 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 186 



An Owl Refugee on a Battleship, /. W. Lippincott; The Hummer and His 

 Shower-bath, Fred W. Kenesson; Th^ Early Woodcock, /. W. Lippincott; 

 The Starling at Glens Falls, N. Y., Gertrude B. Ferguson; Starlings and 

 Cows, Cecil Diplock; The Grackle as a Nest-robber, /. Nelson Gowanlock; 

 Evening Grosbeaks Near Port Chester, N.Y., James C. Maples, Samuel N. 

 Comly, W. Bolton Cook, Richard L. Burdsall, Paul C. Spofford; Redpoll in the 

 District of Columbia, W. Mellott, M.D.; A Summer Visitor, Mabel Foote 

 Witman; Some Wrens' Nests (lilus.), Winthrop Case; Harris's Sparrow 

 IN Northwestern Illinois, /. /. Shafer; Curious Actions of a Robin, 

 Clarence B. Wood; A Successful Bird's Bath (lllus.), Henry P. Severson; 

 Bird-Houses and Lunch-Boxes, Marion and John Kyle; A Drinking- 

 Place for the Birds (lllus.), R. T. Robinson; Some Prospect Park 

 Notes, Kate P. and E: W. Vietor; A Nest Census, E. I. Metcalf; Trial 

 of ,.Von Berlepsch Nests in Nebraska, 5. R. Towne; Thirty-Second 

 Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union; A Course 

 IN Bird-Study, G. Clyde Fisher. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 198 



Cooke on the Distribution and Migration of Herons and their Allies; 

 Wright and Allen's Field-Note Book; Cassinia; Zimmer's Birds of 

 Thomas County; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 201 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 202 



How to Reach'.' Teachers and Pupils; Junior Audubon Work (lllus.); Sums 



Taken from a Table of the Capacity of Nesting Birds; Sums Taken 



from a Table of the Eating Capacity of Adult Birds; From Adult and 



Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 74. The Roseate Spoonbill. With Colored Plate 



by Bruce Horsfall Frank M. Chapman . . 214 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 218 



Glorious Res'ults from the Junior Campaign (lllus.); The Junior Competition 

 Award of Prizes to Successful Clubs; List of Prize-winners; Letters 

 FROM Junior Classes; Suggestions from the South; Hints Helpful to 

 Teachers; Experience in the Gulf States; Methods in Ohio and New 

 Jersey; Facts from Western Societies; Virginia's Public Bird Day; 

 The Federal Law Operates; A Girls' Club in Vermont. 



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