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September-October, 1921 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Canada Goose Allan Brooks. . 



Why Birds Interest Me Eugene Swope. . 231 



Three Weeks in the. Boat Blind Illustrated Guy A. Bailey. . 233 



Red-headed Woodpecker, Bronzed Crackle. Illustrated George Roberts, Jr.. . 238 



With the Birds in Alaska. Illustrated Mrs. G. W. Gasser. . 239 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 243 



A Bird Battle, Sydney Richmond Taber; Cardinal and Other Birds at Kellogg, Minn., 

 Owen D. Fleener; Two Rare Kentucky Songsters, Ben. J. Blincoe; White Egrets 

 AT Smithtown, N. Y., Hamilton F. Potter; White Egret in Connecticut, Blair S. 

 Williams; A Flicker's Bed, Edna Hope Ashenhurst; Chimney Swifts in Fall and 

 Spring, F. B. Robinson; An Unusual Accident, Ralph E. Danforth; A Crackle's 

 Intelligence, G. A. Hinnen; Redwings and Caterpillars, M. I. Compton; Gold- 

 finches Nest in Thistles, Clarence H. Bush; A Song Sparrow Family (Illustrated), 

 Thomas A. Taper; The Migration of the Martin, Blanche D. Sanborn; A Redstart 

 Tragedy, Harry A. Sleeper; Wren Attacks Squirrel, Mrs. Arthur W. Britnall; A 

 Wisconsin Mockingbird, Lloyd Goble; Robin's Nest on a Trolley Wire (Illustrated), 

 //. P. Severson. 



THE SEASON. XXVII. June 15 to August 15, 1921 249 



Winsor M . Tyler; J . T. Nichols; Harry C. Oherholser; Colin Campbell Sanborn; Thomas 

 S. Roberts; Harry Harris; Amelia Sanborn Allen; Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 257 



Howard's Territory in Bird Life; Economic Value of the Starling; The Or- 

 nithological Magazines; Bird-Lores Wanted; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 259 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 260 



The Coloration of Birds (Illustrated), A. A. Allen; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 106. Canada Goose. (See Frontispiece.) 



T. Gilbert Pearson 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 274 



Joel Asaph Allen; New Audubon Reservation; Activities of the Bird Club of Long 

 Island; Annual Meeting; The Wyoming Antelope Episode. 



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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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