jgirli-iLore 



October, 1900 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Teh Bower Birds of Australia. Illiistrated A.J. Campbell. .135' 



Screech Owl. Illustration .... A. J. Pennock . 140 



The Orientation of Birds. Illustrated Captain Gabriel Reynaud . . 141 



A Pair of Killdeer. Illustrated Mrs. Henry W. Nelson . . 148 



Young Bronzed Crackle. Illustration R. IV. Hegner 150 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Study of Birds— Another Way . Olive Thome Miller . .151 



The Bird Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Holl, Mass., during 

 the Summer of 1900 Thos H. Montgomery , Jr., Ph.D. 153 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



My Experience with a Red-headed Woodpecker Alick IVetmore (Aged 13 years) 155 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY i57 



Notes on the American Colden-Eye, Willie H Moore ; A Hummingbird Experiment, 

 Caroline G. Soule ; An Interesting Record, Frayik M. Chapman. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS I59 



Palmer's ' Economic Ornithology ; ' Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware 

 . Valley Ornithological Club; Nash's 'Birds of Ontario;' Farr's 'Check List of 

 New York Birds;' Book News. 



EDITORIALS '• 161 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 163 



Editorial Notes ; Reports of Societies ; The Proposed Conference of Audubon 

 Societies; A Welcome ^werstyiao^, Ernest Seton-Thompson. 



*** Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and exchanges shoiild be 

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, New Jersey. 



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Bird-Lore for December will contain, among other articles, a paper by Bradford Torrey on 

 'Attracting Birds About Our Homes in Winter;' An account of 'Photographing Ptarmigans on the 

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