IStrti - lore 



May -June, 1908 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Least, Alder, Yellow-bellied and Green-crested 



Flycatchers Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



A Family of Barred Owls. Illustrated William Cogswell Clarke.. 99 



Night Heron. Flashlight Photograph Henry R. Carey . . 102 



The Brown Thrasher. Illustrated Charles E. Heil. . 103 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Illustration Warren C. Tudbury.. 105 



A Bittern Study Agnes M. Learned . . 106 



A Bittern Photograph R. M. Strong. . no 



Green Heron and Nest. Illustration George Shiras, 3d. . no 



Nesting Habits of Henslow's Sparrow E. Seymour Woodruff. . in 



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



from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall W. W. Cooke.. 114 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird Lists 118 



Familiar Names of Birds P. B. Peabody . . 122 



NOTES PROM FIELD AND STUDY 123 



The Skylark Pro Tem, Edith M . Thomas; Sea Birds as Homing Pigeons, 

 Charles H. Townsend; Mortality among Birds, Illustrated, T. Gilbert 

 Pearson; Hummingbird Notes, Isabel McC. Lemmon; Nest of Wood Thrush, 

 Illustrated, George P. Perry; Albino Flickers, Illustrated, Loren C. Petry; 

 Identification Sketches, Marian Warner Wildman; Prothonotary War- 

 bler in Central Park, Anne A. Crolius; Tufted Titmouse in Central 

 Park, Anne A. Crolius; The Prairie Horned Lark in Connecticut, Illus- 

 trated, Robert S. Judd; What the Starling Does at Home, S. H. Goodwin; 

 A Southern Starling Record, Thomas R. Hill. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 131 



Mrs. Miller's The Bird Our Brother; Henshaw's Policemen of the Air- 

 Bird Books in the Library of Frederic Gallatin, Jr.; The Orni- 

 thological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 134 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 135 



Bird Houses and School Children, Illustrated; Good Work in a Pennsylvania 

 School; American Nature Study Society; A Course in Bird Study. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 32. The Barn Swallow, with colored plate by Bruce 



Horsfall Mabel Osgood Wright. . 138 



AUDUBON SOCIETLES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 142 



Two New Bird Reservations; Bird Refuges; Field Work; Reservation 

 News; Legislation Protection of Wild Fowl; A Good Example; An Active 

 Game Warden; The Value of the Night Hawk; The Destruction of 

 Plume Birds; The Destruction of Lapwings; An Interesting Competition 



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

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

 New York City, N. Y . 



SPECIAL NOTICE 



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

 to subscribers whose subscription expired April 1, 1908, 

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



On renewal, a copy of the Colored Wild Turkey Plate 

 will be forwarded. 



Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Harrisburg, Fa. 



