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June, 1900 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Frontispiece — Ruffed Grouse on Nest E. G. Tabor 68 



Song- Birds in Europe and America Robert Ridgway 69 



Young Least Flycatchers and Nest. Illustration P. B. Peabody . 75 



The Kingfishers' Home Life Illustrated by the author William L Baily 76 



Swallows and Feathers Latira G. Page . . 80 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



How to Conduct Field Classes Florence Merriam Bailey . . 83 



Bird Study at Wood's Holl 87 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The Origin of Dick Cissel. Verse. Illustrated by the author . . Ernest Seton-Thompson 88 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 89 



A Home-Loving Osprey (illustrated), //. 5. i/a/Aawo'/)'/ Nesting Habits of the Prothono- 

 tary Warbler, Albert Ganier; The House Wren as a Depredator, John Hulchins ; 

 Early Breeding of the Pine Siskin, 71/;j Wm C. Horton ; A New Camera for Bird 

 Photographers; The Bird Protection Fund, William Dutcher. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEW^S 92 



Keartons' 'British Birds' Nests' and 'Rarer Breeding British Birds;' Loomis' 'Cali- 

 fornia Water Birds;' Chapman's 'Bird Studies with a Camera;' Book News. 



EDITORIALS 93 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 94 



Editorial; The Question of Fees, Witmer Stone; Reports of Delaware, Florida, Min- 

 nesota, AND Kentucky Societies; Letters from Bishop Whipple and Governor 

 Roosevelt; The Milliners' Proposed Agreement. 



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PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



The most important articles in Bird- Lore for August will be 'The Orientation of Birds,' by 

 Capt. Gabiiel Reynaud, in charge of tlie Homing Pigeon Service of the French Army, and 'A Study 

 of a Lincoln's Sparrow,' by William Brewster. 



