Young Observers' Prize Contest 



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What Bird is This? 



Field Description.— Length 5.50 in. Crown streaked with black and greenish gray and with some partly con- 

 cealed chestnut; back streaked black and greenish gray; white wing-bars, and white blotches on tail; below burly 

 white with traces of chestnut chiefly along the sides. 



Note. — Each number of Bird-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively little-known bird, or 

 bird in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding 

 number of the magazine, it being believed that this method of arousing the student's 

 curiosity will result in impressing the bird's characters on his mind far more strongly 

 than if its name were given with the picture. 



The species figured in April is Brewster's Warbler, a supposed hybrid between 

 the Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warblers, of which over one hundred specimens are 

 known. 



The Young Observers' Prize Contest 



Circumstances prevent a report on the essays which have been received 

 on the birds of February and March, but the prize winner will be an- 

 nounced in our next issue. 



' In the meantime we will remind those who are competing for the 

 prize offered for the best notes on the birds of April and May that their 

 essays should be sent to the editor by June 15. We also now offer a 

 third prize of a book or books to the value of two dollars for the best 

 seven- or eight- hundred-word article on the birds of June and July. 



