December, 1900 



CONTENTS 



page: 



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Frontispiece — Ferruginous Rough-legged Hawk 



Photographed from life by H. IV. Nash . 



Photographing Ptarmigan. Illustrated by the author E.R.Warren. 



How Ptarmigans Molt. Illustrated Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M.D. . 



Winter Pensioners. Illustrated Bradford Torrey . 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Birds and Seasons — First Series 



December and January Bird-Life Near Boston . Ralph Hoffmann . 



December and January Bird- Life Near New York City . . Frank M. Chapman 



December and January Bird-Life Near Philadelphia Witmer Stone . 



December and January Bird-Life at Oberlin, O. Prof. Lynds Jones 



December and January Bird-Life at Glen Ellyn, 111. .... Benjamin T. Gault . 



December and January Bird-Life on the Eastern Side of San Francisco Bay . 



Charles Keeler 



Sugg^estions for the Months' Study, 190 ; Suggestions for the Months' Reading, 191 ; What 

 Bird is This? (illustration), 191. 

 A Christmas Bird -Census , 192 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The Rev. Mr. Chickadee, D.D. Verse. Illustrated by the author 



Florence A. Van Sant . . 193 



My Exploit With a Crossbill Nina Nightingale . . . 193 



Bird Nesting in Winter. Illustrated . . ..... 194 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY i95 



A Blue Jay Tragedy (illustrated), H. M. Beck; Feeding a Shrike, Ellen E. Webster; The 

 American Ornithologists' Union. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS . . .... 197 



Audubon Bird Chart No. 2 ; Bishop's 'Birds of the Yukon Region;' Beal's 'Food of 

 the Bobolink, Blackbirds and Crackles;' Palmer's 'Information Concerning 

 Game;' Book News; Program of the Eighteenth A. O. U. Congress. 



EDITORIAL . 199 



Bird-Lore for 1901. 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 201 



Editorial ; The Audubon Conference ; Death of Mrs. Dommerich ; Seizure of Gulls 

 IN Baltimore; Report of the District of Columbia Society; Destruction of 

 Ptarmigan for Millinery Purposes (illustrated). 



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

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, New Jersey. 



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Among the contents of Bird-Lore for February, 1901, will be a stenographic report of an address on 

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