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ing Young Observers: Maurice J. Clausen, Toronto, Canada; Anna D. 

 White, Lansdowne, Pa.; Edward H. Nichols, Camden, N. J.; Margaret 

 Walker, Andrews, N. C. ; W. C. Scott, Dewey, Ohio; Lewis Gannett, 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; Edmund W. Sinnott, Bridgewater, Mass. ; Ruth 

 Daniels, West Medway, Mass. 



Now it is time to send in the essays on the Birds of June and July. 

 These may, as heretofore, contain general notes on the bird -life of these 

 two months or they may describe only the habits of a single species; 

 but in every instance particular care should be taken to be definite and 

 exact, giving dates and periods. Not, for instance, writing "sometime 

 early in June," or, "the young were in the nest about two weeks." 



We now offer a fourth prize of a book or books to the value of two 

 dollars to the Young Observers of fourteen years or under, for the best 

 seven- or eight-hundred-word article on the Birds of August and September. 



What Bird is This? 



Field Description. — Length, ;.6o in. Above grayish brown, wings and tail darker ; below whitish washed 

 with grayish brown ; lower mandible lighter than upper. 



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 June is the female Bay-breasted Warbler. 



