i&irli*lore 



July -August, 1905 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES ^*-^^ 



Frontispiece — Blackpoll and Black-and-White Warblers Bruce Horsfall . 



A Goldfinch Study. Illustrated ... R. H. Beebe . 189 



Some Early American Ornithologists. III. Benjamin Smith Barton. Illustrated . . . 



IVitiiwr Stone • 193 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher. Illustrated Geo IV. Fiske,Jy. . 195 



A Pasture Tragedy M. H. Prentice . 197 



A Royal Family (Kingbirds). Illustration Maunsell S. Crosby . 200 



Group of Flamingos. Illustration 201 



Group of San Joaquin Valley Birds. Illustration 202 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Migration of Warblers. Eleventh Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 



Bruce Horsfall IV ■ ^V. Cooke . 203 



Male Bob-white on Nest. Illustration ' Maunsell S. Crosby . 206 



The Bird to the Bird-lover Chreszvell J. Hunt . 207 



Feeding Birds in Winter 208 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



209 



Incidents Among Birds, /oAn W. Taylor; A Bluebird and His Mates, T. Gilbert Pearson; 

 Chimney Swift Notes, Wm. E. Praeger; Song of the Carolina Wren, Ella Mosby; 

 Opposed to Compulsory Instruction on Birds; Pine Warblers Eat Suet, E.A.S. 

 Pennell; A Peculiar Snare, R. H. Dean. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 212 



Job's 'Wild Wings'; Townsend's 'Birds of Esse.x County'; Forbush's 'Report on 

 Decrease of Birds.' 



EDITORIAL 214 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 215 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 15 219 



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