irtj - lore 



May -June, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Fbontispiece in Color. Great Horned Owl Allan Brooks. . 



John Burroughs. i837-ig2i. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman. . iig 



Why Do Birds Bathe? II. Illustrated . .Ernest Thompson Seton and other Contributors. . 124 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 138 



A Nest Census, Richard M. Chase; The Woodcock as a 'Bluteer', S. N. F. Sanford; 

 A 1,-lme Grouse, Edgar Bedell; Preparation of Food by a Blackbird, George E. Erol; 

 A White Crow, 5. E. Perkins, III; A Family of Wood Thrushes, Frank Harbaum; 

 The Song of the Red-eyed Vireo, E. A . Doolittle; The Evening Grosbeak a Summer 

 Resident in Northern Minnesota, D. Lange; The Yellow Rail Near Chicago, 

 Esther A . Craigmile. 



THE SEASON. XXV. February IS to AprU 15, 1921 143 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Harry C. Oberholser; Lynds Jones; Colin Campbell Sanborn; 

 Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold; Amelia S. Allen; Francis B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 151 



Miss Cooke's 'Birds of the Washington Region;' Club Reports and Bird Annuals; 

 The Ornithological Magaz^es. 



EDITORIAL. 



153 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 154 



Summer Bird Study. Illustrated. A. A. Allen. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 105. Great Horned Owl. (See Frontispiece) 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . 163 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 167 



John Burroughs' Birthday Message; Law Regarding the Sale and Wearing of 

 Feathers; New Jersey Bobolink Law Passed; The Wyoming Elk Situation; 

 New Members. 



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



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