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January - February, 19 02 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES 



Frontispiece.— A Crow Roost CD. Kellogg 



Recollections ok Elliott Coues. Illustrated 



Coues as a Young Man: D. G. Elliot 



Coues at His First Army Post ...... Cap/. C A. Curtis 



Extract from the Journal ok Elliott Coues 



The Western Evening Grosbeak. Illustrated ... ... IVm Rogers Lord 



A Crow Roost. Illustrated CD. Kellogg 



Bird Clubs in America. I. The Nuttall Club. Illustrated . . Francis H. Allen 



A Winter Visitor. Illustration Martha II'. Brooks 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird-Lore's Advisory C hjncil . iS 



How to Name the Birds. Illustrated. Second paper Frank M. Chapman . 20 



What Bird is This? Illustration 24 



The Christmas Bird Census 24 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The Prize Essay Contests 3 1 



The Prize Crow Essay Fred T. Morison 31 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY. Omitted to give space to the ' Christmas Bird Census.' 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS . . - . 33 



Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle America'; Proceedings of the Nebraska 

 Ornithologists' Union ; Kellogg's 'Elementary Zoology'; The Ornithological 

 Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 06 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 



Editorial: Report of the Pennsylvania Society. An Addition to the White List. 

 The Thayer Find. 



*** Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and exchanges should be 

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, Net." Jersey. 



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Volume I contains 206 pages, with 79 illustrations; Volume II, 204 pages, with 80 illus- 

 trations; Volume III, 228 pages, with 92 illustrations, or a total of 638 pages (equivalent to 

 about 1,230 pages of the average l2mo book), and 251 illustrations. 



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PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



Bird-Lore for April will contain 'The Bird Voices of New England Swamps and Marshes' 

 1 illustrated), bv William Brewster; 'The Weapons of Birds' (illustrated), by K. A. Lucas; 'The 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club,' by S. N. Rhoads, and the third part of ' How to Name the 

 Birds,' by Frank M. Chapman. 



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