jStrli lore 



July- August, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Purple and Bronzed Crackles Lotiis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Yellow-breasted Chat and Cowbird. Illustrated Wilbur F. Smith. . 175 



A Hat and Three Screech Owls. Illustration J. B. Pardoe. . 177 



Mourning Dove and Young. Illustration W.J. Hamilton, Jr.. . 178 



The Mockingbird of the Arnold Arboretum C. H. Early. . 179 



English Sparrow and Nest. Illustration Arthur A. Jeffrey. . 181 



The Bird-Bath in Molting-time. Illustrated Craig S. Thoms. . 182 



The Cow bird: A Parasite Harry A. Elder. . 185 



Migration of North American Birds, Second Series XVI. Purple Crackles and 



Bronzed Crackles Harry C. Oberholser. . 192 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Sixtieth Paper. Fram^ M. Chapman. . igs 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 197 



Birds and Salt, /. E. H. Kelso; Scarcity of Nighthawks, Fred. J. Pierce; Birds' Love 

 FOR Color, Rosalee M. Fee; A Kingbird's Nest, Don H. Robinson; Starling and Hens- 

 low's Sparrow in Ontario, E. M. S. Dale; Louisiana Tanager in Massachusetts, 

 Ethel M. Smith; Yellow-throated Warbler on Lake George, N. Y., Adelaide L. 

 Denton; An Albino Redstart, S. R Ingersoll. 



THE SEASON. XXVL AprU 15 to June 15, 1921 200 



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

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



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 211 



Instructions for Bird Banding; Bird Stories; The Ornithological IMagazines; 

 Book News. 



EDITORIAL 214 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 215 



Geography of Birds; Yellow Warbler's Tale, A. A. Allen; From Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 222 



Annual Report of Junior Societies; Junior Societies and the Press; The Legal 

 Killing of Robins; Abbott H. Thayer's Contribution to Bird-Protection, T. S. 

 Palmer; Hiking fqr Birds; Thumbs Down for Florida Bird Protection; New 

 Members. 



*i^ Manuscripts intended far publication, hooks, etc., Jor review and exchanges, should he sent 

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



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