February, 1900 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Frontispiece — Eli-iott Coues . 



Obituary Notice of Elliott Coues 3 



Concerning Birds' Tongues. Illustrated by the author Frederic A. Lucas . 5 



A Note on the Economic Valuk of Gulls Frank M. Chapman . 10 



Illustrated by the author. 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird -Lore's Advisory Council .12 



On Methods of Teaching Ornithology at Oberlin College Lynds Jones . . 14 



Every -Day Study of Birds for Busy People, Including a Method of Recording 

 Observations IV. H. C. Pynchon . 19 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



February Birds Morgan St. John 23 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 25 



The Season's Flight of Crossbills, illustrated, Frank M. Chapman; Blue-Winged War- 

 bler in Southern New York in January, Elizabeth G. Britton; A Philanthropic 

 Sparrow, Caroline G. Soule ; Hawk and Robin, Emilia C Anthony ; The Notes of the 

 Crow, Charles H. Rogers ; A Pair of Canadian Climbers, illustrated, C. William Beebe ; 

 The Increased Interest in Bird Photography. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 28 



Merriam's ' Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta ;' Lange's ' Our Native 

 Birds;' Keeler's 'Bird Notes Afield;' Palmer's 'The Avifauna of the Pribilof 

 Islands ,' Book News. 



EDITORIAL 30 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 32 



Editorial; An Appeal to Bird Lovers; Where the Grebe Skins Come From, Vernon 

 Bailey. 



He*'* Bird- Lore is ptiblished on the first of every other month, at Englewood, New Jersey, ivhere 

 all notices of change of address, manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and 

 exchanges should be sent. 



NOTICES TO SUBSCRIBERS 



To subscribers whose subsGription expired with the issue for December, 1899, and who have 

 as yet neither renewed their subscription nor, in response to our request, sent us a notice to discon- 

 tinue their magazine, the present number is sent in the belief that the matter of renewal has been 

 overlooked. We trust it will now receive prompt attention. 



Subscribers whose subscription expires with the present issue will find a properly dated 

 renewal blank in their magazine. In the event of a desire not to renew, the editor would greatly 

 appreciate a postal to that effect. 



PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



Bird-Lore for April will contain, among other papers, the following: 'Bird Study at Wellesley 

 College,' by Marion C. Hubbard, Instructor in Zoology ; Migration Tables for April and May, from 

 Portland, Conn., by J. H. Sage, and from Oberlin, Ohio, by Lynds Jones; 'A New Camera for Bird 

 Photographers,' by John Rowley; 'The Egret Hunters of Venezuela,' by George K. Cherrie. 



