April, 1900 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Frontispiece — Wild Geese 36 



A New Camera for Bird Photographers John Rowley . . 37 



Illustrated by Ernest W. Smith. 



Photographing a Robin. Illustrated by the author A. L. Prhicehom . . 41 



How A Marsh Hawk Grows . . P. B. Peabody , . 43 



Illustrated by the author and E. G. Tabor. 



The Egret Hunters of Venf.zuela. Illustrated George K. Cherrie . . 50 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird Work at Wellesi.ey College Marion E. Hubbard . . 52 



Spring Migra mon at Cortland, Conn John H. Sage . . 56 



Spring Migration at Oberlin, Ohio Lynds Jones . . 57 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The Wise Old Crow Garrett Newkirk . . 58 



Letter from a Young Observer 58 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 59 



Note on the Blue-Winged Warbler in New York City in Winter, Floyd C. Noble ; 

 Notes on the Food of the Chickadee and Screech Owl, Isabella McC. Lenimon ; 

 Two Notes from the Berkshires, Joh^i Denwood; Additional Notes on the Sea- 

 son's Flight of Crossbills; An Interesting Nest (illustrated), Frank M Chapman; 

 The Bird Protection Fund, William Butcher; Bird, Slaughter in Delaware; The 

 Hoar Bill. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEW^S 61 



Faxon's and Hoffmann's 'Birds of Berkshire County;' Pearson's 'Birds of Chapel 

 Hill;' Blatchley's 'Gleanings from Nature;' Praeger's 'Birds in Horticulture.' 



EDITORIAL 62 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 63 



Editorial; Illinois Society; South Carolina Society; Use of the Mails by Feather 

 Dealers; Protest against the Collection of Plume Birds through Postmasters, 

 T. S. Palmer. 



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PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



Bird -Lore for June will contain, among other papers, the following: 'How to Conduct Field 

 Classes in Bird Study.' by Florence Merriam Bailey; 'The Song Birds of Europe and America,' com- 

 pared by Robert Ridgway ; 'The origin of the Dickcissel ' (verse), by Ernest Selon -Thompson, illus- 

 trated by the author; and 'A Kingfisher Family,' by William L. Bailey, with some unusually interesting 

 photographs by the author. 



