Mx^ ^ lore 



March- April, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. MEiVDOWLARKs; Ykllow-iucadeu Blackbird 



Louis Agassiz Fucrlcs. . 



Winter Bird Life in Los Angeles. lUuslralcd Ilarricl Williams Myers. . 71 



The Bird-House for Purple Martins Thomas L. McConncll. . 75 



Green Heron and Nest. Illustration A. A. Allen. . 77 



Migration of North American Biiu)s. Second Series. XV. Yellow-heaued Blackbird 



and Meadowlarks Harry C. Oberholser. . 78 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fifty-ninth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 83 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 85 



A Yellow Rail in a Street, Gladys Fowler; A Flicker's Food, Garrett Newkirk; Saw- 

 whet Owl (IUus.), Lawrence Zeleny; A Friendly Blue Jay, Henry Marquand; Evening 

 Grosbeak Nesting in Wisconsin, 0. W. Smith; The Adventures of a Sparrow Trap, 

 W. B. Perky, Jr.; Sparrow Meets Sparrow, Mabel R. Wiggins; A Catbird Foundation, 

 R. J. Middleton; Mockingbird Winters in Iowa, Mrs. F. L. Battcll; A Tufted Tit- 

 mouse Story, Albert P. Greim-; Notes from Collins, N. Y., Dr. Anne E. Perkins; 

 Bluebirds at Home (IUus.), Lester Morlock; Hanging the Bird-House, Emily A. 

 Corning; Birds and Salt, Fred J. Pierce. 



THE SEASON. XXIV. December 15, 1920 to February 15, 1921 91 



Winsor M. Tyler, J. T. Nichols, Harry C. Oberholser, Thomas S. Roberts, Colin Campbell 

 Sanborn, Harry Harris, W. H. Bergtold, Amelia S. Allen, Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 99 



Townsend's Supplement to 'The Birds of Essex County;' Bulletin of the Essex 

 County Ornithological Club; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL loi 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 102 



Structure and Habit; Implements of Birds, A. A. Allen; From Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT m 



Report on the National Parks Situation; Federal Game Legislation; To Provide 

 FOR A Duty on Imported Caged Birds; State Legislative Matters; Audubon 

 Exhibit in Tennessee; New Members. 



*i^ Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

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



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