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November -December, 1905 



CONTENTS 



OBNBRAL ARTICLES 



FrONTISPIKCK — BEI. ding's and MaRVI.AND Vki I.OW-IHROAT 



The Structure ok Wings. Illusiraied. . . 



The Growth of a Voung Bird. Illusiraieil by the author 



PAGE 



. . Lota's A^s^assiz Fiiertrs . 

 William Morton Wheeler . 257 

 £. R. Warren . 263 



Some Earlv .\.\ierica.n' ORNirHoi.or:isTS. I\'. .Ai.k.xander Wilson. Illustrated 



H 'timer Slone . 265 



Bl.UR Jays at Home. Illustrated by the autlmr Wilbur T. Smith . 26.S 



The Story of a Tame BoK-WHirK. Illustrated by the author J. M. Graham 271 



A Pair of Flickers and Their Home, lllusiraliun . . ... A. L. Princchom . 



The Feeding Habits of the Niirther.n Phai.aropk. Illusiniled by the author 



J-raiik M. Chapman . 273 

 ifOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Migration of Wakblkrs. Thirteenih Paper, llhistraled by Louis Ag-assiz Fnertes and 



Bruce Hors/all . . . . ' II . fl'. Cooke . 275 



Bird-Lore's Colored Plates. 279 



Bird-Lore's Sixth Christmas Bird Ck.nsis 279 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 280 



Glli.s Destroy Insects and .Mice. William Dutrlier,- How tuf R'bds Comk, lUiis.. Jennie 

 C. Ball: Los Angeles Bird N'isitors, Harriet Williams Myers: rwENTY-THiRD Con- 

 gress of the a O. U. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEW^S 2S3 



Rkeke's r\vc» BiRD-i-<i\ krs !n Mexico'; Ji-dd's 'Bob-white and Other OfAiLS'; The 

 Ornithological .Magazi.nes; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 286 



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EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 17. American Goi.dmnch. With Colored Plate .... 290 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES .... 294 



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