irli - lore 



January-February, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Brown Creeper. To illustrate Educational Leaflet No. 104, p. 59. 



R. Bruce H or s fall. . 



BIRD-LORE'S ADVISORY COUNCIL i 



BIRD-LORE'S TWENTY-FIRST CHRISTMAS CENSUS 3 



THE SEASON. XXIIL October 15 to December 15, 1920 32 



Winsor M. Tyler, J. T. Nichols, Julian K. Potter, Harry C. Oberholser, Lynds Jones, Harry 

 Harris, Thomas S. Roberts, W. H . Bergtold, Amelia S. Allen, Frances B. Schneider. 



A Little Brother of the Air. Illustration ■. . 39 



A JuNco Portrait 41 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 42 



Hudson's 'Birds of La Plata'; Annual Report of the Chief of the Biological Survey; 

 'Cassinia'; Abstract of the Proceedings of the Linn^.an Society; Whitman's 

 'Familiar Studies of Wild Birds.' 



EDITORIAL 45 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 46 



A Bird in the Schoolroom, A. A. A.; The Bird as a Flying Machine (Illus.), A. A. A.; 

 For or from Yoltng Observers; Wood Pe\vee at Home (Illus.), H. K. Job. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 104. The Brown Creeper. (See Frontispiece.) 



T. Gilbert Pearson . . 60 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 64 



Otm National P,\rks in Great Danger; Moving Pictures for Florida; Air-Guns 

 Illegal for Florida; For a United States Department of Conservation; Killing 

 Ducks by Aeroplane; Indiana Audubon Society; Report of Forest Hills Gardens 

 Audubon Society; The Burrough's Aitdubon Nature Club; List of New Members. 



*:f!* Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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