August, 1900 



CONTENTS 



PAGK 



Frontispiece — Nests of Cliff Swallows S. U'. jrUh'ston 



Orientation of Birds. Illustrated Captain Gabrirl Raynaud loi 



Catbird on Nest. Illustration A.J. Penuock . . loS 



A Study of a Lincoln's Sparrow. Illustrated William Bresiuter . 109 



Flicker at Nest-hole. Illustration -{. L. Princehom 112 



The Birds that Pass in the Night Harry S. Warren 113 



NiGHTHAWK AND VouNG. Illustration . . . . Robert R. Peebles 116 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Two Notes by a Young Observer Ednriaid B. Dibble 117 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY . . "S 



Early Breeding of the Pine Siskin, .1/;-.?. Wm. C. Horton ; An Oriole Tragedy (illus- 

 trated), /. Halbrook Shau\ M.D.: The Newport Robin, E. A. M'arns ; A Yonkers 

 Robin, Ella Gilbert Ives: An Albino Robin, .\elly Hart Woodworlh ; A Successful 

 Bird Club; Cowbird in .a Dove's Nest (illustrated), Chas. D. Kellogg ; Young Warbling 

 X'IREOS AND Nest (illustration), R. W. Hegner ; Red-eyed Vireo and Nest (illustration), 

 F. M. Ctiapniaii. 



BOOK NE-WS AND REVIE'WS 123 



Dugmore's ' Bird Homes ; ' Ingersoi.l's ' Nature's Calendar ; ' Palmer's Legisl.ation 

 FOR the Protection of Non-game Birds; Jones' ' W.arblers' Songs;' Burns' 'Mono- 

 graph of the Flicker ; ' Macoun's ' Catalogue of Canadi.an Birds ; ' Beyer's ' Avi- 

 F.AUNA OF Louisiana;' Batchelder and Fogg on Manchester ( N. H. ) Birds; 

 Book News. 



EDITORIALS 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 



Editorial; Reports of Rhode Isl.^nd, Ohio, and Wisconsin Societies. 



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PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 



Bird -Lore for October will contain, among other articles of interest, the conclusion of Captain 

 Reynaud's important paper, and a paper on 'The Bower Birds of Australia,' by Mr. A. J. Campbell, 

 tha authority on Australian birds, with photographs from nature of the wonderful structures erected 

 bv these birds. 



