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July -August, 1914 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Sharpe's Seedeater, Lark Bunting 



Louis Agassis Fueries . . 



At Home with a Hell-Diver. Illustrated Arthur A. Allen. . 243 



The Morning Bird Chorus in Pasadena Garrett Newkirk. . 254 



The Pewee's Note. Verse E. J. Sawyer . . 257 



Destruction of the Rhea, Black-necked Swan, Herons and other Wild 



Life in South America. Illustrated Leo E. Miller. . 259 



Comparative Abundance of Birds Abbott H. Thayer. . 263 



Why the Birds are Decreasing Rolla Warren Kimsey . . 265 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-ninth Paper 



Wells W. Cooke. . 267 

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



Frank M. Chapman.. 268 



A Co-operative Study of Bird Migration 270 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 275 



The Annual Bird-List of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Winthrop 

 Packard; Birds and Windows, I, W. L. Skinner; II, Delos E. Culver; Fall 

 River Notes, Ellen M. Shove; Prospect Park Notes, Edward Fleischer; Bird- 

 Notes FROM Sedalia, Mo., Chas. A. McNeil; Sussex County, N. J., Notes, 

 F. Blanche Hill; Notes on the Autumn Migration of the Parasitic Jae- 

 ger, Robert Cushman Murphy; Turkey Vulture in Northwestern Iowa, 

 Rev. Manley B. Townsend; Young Turkey Vultures, Wm. F. Gingrich; 

 Florida Gallinule at Baltimore, Joseph N. Ulman; Red-breasted Gros- 

 beak Singing on the Nest, Harry C. Pifer; Our Neighbor, The Bald 

 Eagle, Winifred Holway Palmer; The Flocking of Purple Martins, /. A'^. 

 Mitchell; Harris's Sparrow in Wisconsin, Mrs. Mark L. Simpson; Addi- 

 tional Observations of Harris's Sparrow in Illinois, J. J. Schafer; A 

 Rat in a Swallow's Nest, Norman DeW. Belts; Brewster's Warbler 

 Seen at Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., Wm. Edson; R. Horsey. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 284 



Allen's The Red- Winged Blackbird. A Study in the Ecology of a Cat-tail 

 Marsh; Grinnell's An Account of the Mammals and Birds of the Lower 

 Colorado River, with Especial Reference to the Distributional Prob- 

 lems Presented; Swarth's A Distributional List of the Birds of 

 Arizona; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 288 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 289 



Program-Making; Bird-Study at the University of Virginia Summer School; 

 An Effort to Illustrate the Advantages and Possibilities of Inducing 

 Desirable Birds to Remain Within the Boundaries of the State During 

 the Winter Months; For Teachers and Pupils; From Adult and Young 

 Observers (lllus.). 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 75. The Sora Rail. With Colored Plate by Bruce 



Horsfall Edward Howe Forbush. . 303 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 307 



$20,000 FOR Bird-Study; Final Reports; Co-operative Work in Oregon (lllus.); 

 Enthusiasm on Long Island (lllus.); Honor to Abbott H.Thayer; Audu- 

 bon Warden Work (lllus.); Terns Killed by Dogs and Cannon (lllus.); 

 A Women Game- Warden (lllus.); Indiana's Good Example; Bobolinks May 

 be Slaughtered; Legal Struggles in Maryland; Mutually Satisfactory: 

 New Members; Reports From Workers in the Field. 



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