IBirli-ilDre 



January -February, 1905 



CONTENTS 



OBNERAL ARTICLES 



Frontispihce — Yellow, Mangrove and Prairie Warblers Bruce Horsf all . 



Advertisement. Verse ' . . C C. Dawson . 



A New Year Suggestion. Illustrated by the author Mabel Osgood Wright . 



A Natural Nesting Box. Illustrated A. L. Princehorn . 



Nesting Boxes. Illustrated by the author Edward Howe Forbush . 



Nest-Box Suggestions 



On the Construction of Houses for the Purple Martin. Illustrated by the author 



/. IVarren Jacobs . 

 Three Wren Homes. Photographs by M. S. Crosby, R. IV. Hegner and F. M. Chapman 



NEST- BOX NOTES 17 



From St. Louis, Otto IVidmann; Wood Duck's Nest (illustration); From Washington, 

 Robert Ridway ; An Unwelcome Tenant (illustration) ; From Durham, N. C, Ernest 

 Seeman; A Wren House (illustrated), J. Fletcher Street; A Tree Swallow Home (illus- 

 trated), W. H. Phillips ; From the Catskills, H. H. R. King ; Unique M.\rtin Boxes, 

 T. Warren Jacobs; An English Sparrow as a House-breaker, Wm. M. Stillman ; 

 Flicker (illustrated), R. H. Beebe. 



BIRD-LORE'S FIFTH CHRISTMAS BIRD CENSUS 22 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council. (Held over for April issue.) 



The Migration of Warblers. Eighth Paper W. W. Cooke 34 



Kentucky and Connecticut Warblers. Full-page in color Bruce Horsf all . 



(Publication unavoidably postponed until April.) 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 



Macoun's Birds of Canada; Cooke's Migration of Warblers; Ridgway's 'Birds of 

 America', Part III; Kearton's 'Adventures of Cock Robin'; Boraston's Birds by 

 Land and Sea ; Ornithological Magazine ; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 

 FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS . 



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REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



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Reduced line cut of Ernest Thompson Seton's drawing of a Northern Shrike. Presented to every sub- 

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