Bird-Lore's Colored Plates 



The series of twenty-four colored plates illustrating North America Warblers will be 

 completed in the next volume of Bird-Lore. The responses to the query, sent out last 

 year, concerning the most desirable group of birds to figure in color when the Warblers 

 were concluded, leaves the choice between the Flycatchers and the Thrushes and we should 

 be glad to receive a further expression of opinion in regard to this matter. 



In Bird-Lore for December, 1904 we stated our desire to add colored plates to Mr. 

 Dutcher's admirable Educational Leaflets, and, to our no small satisfaction, we find ourselves 

 in a position to gratify it. 



Hereafter then, in addition to the Warbler plates, each number of Bird-Lore will 

 contain a colored plate of the male and female of some well-known North American bird. 



To teachers who subscribe to Bibd-Lore the Natural Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties makes this generous offer : on application to the Association at 141 Broadway, each 

 teacher will receive, without charge, two extra copies of each Educational Leaflet together 

 with two colored plates and six facsimile outline drawings of the plate for coloring. 

 Additional copies of the Leaflet, plate, and outline may be had at cost. 



Bird-Lore's Sixth Christmas Bird Census 



THE plan of reporting ones observations afield on Christmas Day has 

 met with such cordial and practical endorsement b}- bird students 

 throughout the country that Bird-Lore's Christmas Bird Census 

 may now be considered a fixed event, which increases in interest as the 

 accumulating records give additional material for comparison. From a total 

 of twenty -five lists received in 1900 it has grown to seventy-nine lists in 

 1904, and there is every reason to believe that the returns for the present 

 year will exceed in number those of any previous season. 



Reference to the February, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, or 1905 number of 

 Bird-Lore will acquaint one with the nature of the report of the day's hunt 

 which we desire ; but to those to whom none of these issues is available we 

 may explain that such reports should be headed by a brief statement of the 

 character of the weather, whether clear, cloudy, rainy, etc., whether the 

 ground is bare or snow-covered, the direction and force of the wind, the 

 temperature at the time of starting, the hour of starting and of returning. 

 Then should be given, in the order of the A. O. U. ' Check-list,' a list of 

 the species seen, with exactly, or approximately, the number of individuals of 

 each species recorded. A record should read, therefore, somewhat as follows : 



Yonkers, N. Y. Time, 8 A. m. to 12 M. Clear; ground bare; wind west, light; 

 temperature 38°. Herring Gull, 75: Total, — species, — individuals. — 

 James Gates. 



These records will be published in the February' issue of Bird -Lore, 

 and it is particularly requested that they be sent the editor (at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City) not later than December 28. 

 It will save the editor much clerical labor if the model here given, and the 

 order of the A. O. U. Check-list be closely followed. 



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