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March- April, 1908 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color —Hammond's, Wright's, Gray, Buff-breasted, and 

 Western Flycatchers Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



The Home-Life of the American Egret. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman.. 59 



The Background of Ornithology Spencer Trotter . . 6S 



The Nest in the Gutter. Illustrated Gilbert H. Trajton . . 72 



Mallard on Nest. Illustration George Shiras, 3d. . . 76 



The Migration of Flycatchers. Third Paper. Illustrated with colored plates 



from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall .... W . W . Cooke. . 77 



The Common Names of North American Birds Edward H. Perkins. . 78 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 79 



The Value of the Starling, Wilbur F. Smith; A Strange Friendship, illus- 

 trated, A. H . Schippang; Trustful Birds, R. P. Sharpies; The Most Southern 

 Starling Record, Louis B. Bishop; A Brown Creeper's Mistake, Clarence 

 M. Arnold; Notes on Kirtland's Warbler, A. D. Tinker; A Winter Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak, illustrated, Clarence D. Brown; Notes on the Mourning 

 Dove, A. D. Tinker; A Winter Robin, Percival B. Coffin; Nature's Remedies, 

 R. P. Sharpies; Over-productive Robins, Leander S. Keyset. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 84 



Mullens' 'Selborne'; Beal's, Birds of California; List of Birds in the New 

 York Zoological Society; Beebe on the Geographical Variation of 

 Birds; The Work of the Biological Survey; Keyser's Our Bird 

 Comrades; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 87 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES —SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 88 



A Good Example, M . O. W. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 31. The Song Sparrows with colored plate by Bruce 



Horsjall Mabel Osgood Tl 'right . . 90 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 94 



We Need; A New Bird Reservation; Executive Order; An Ideal Game 

 Commission; Alien License Law; The Plume Trade; Plume-Hunters in 

 riu. Soudan; Attracting Birds. 



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

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City, N. V. 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



We take the liberty of sending this number of Bird- Lore 

 to subscribers whose subscription expired February 1, 1908, 

 in the belief that the matter of renewal has been overlooked. 



On renewal, a copy of the Wild Turkey Plate (see next 

 page) will be forwarded. 



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