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March -April, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES '''^'^*'- 



Frontispiece — American Robin Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



Thh: House Finch From an Ofkich; Window. Illustrated W. H Bergtold 6i 



Young GREfeN Hkrons. Illustration /?. /^ Hegner 64 



BiRD Clubs in America. III. The Maink Ok s-itholoc;ic.al Society. Illustrated , . 



J. Mertnn Szvam . 65 



Clay Bird-Houses and Bird-Baths, lllustralccl Robert W Hegner 69 



A Gentle Criticism. Illustrated John Lyall Garretson . 73 



Kingfisher. Illustration .... . . R. H. Beebe . 75 



The Migration of Thrushes Second Paper. Illustrated witli colored plates fiom drawings 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horslall W. W. Cooke . 76 



'Oology a Science' Correspondence P. A. Taverii^r. :8 



Plumages of the Robin • S" 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND SfUDY .„■••■, ^' 



A Hl'.mming-bikd that Wanti-d Lichl, Illustrated, E A' IVarren; 1 hh Ferdini; Habits of 

 the Bi.VK ]a\, John Hutchins ; The Bn K 1 aY ..s a \)h.s\ua\H\<. . George H. Pi all : The 

 Blue Jay's Food, George G. lUaiichard; A Heksistkni Phokbe, /, .S'. Pearson; An 

 Unusual Nesting-Site of the American Lonc-kai^ v d Owl, A. D. tinker; The 

 Uartramian Sandpiper,/. M. Bates ; Robins and Sparrows, C. M. Arnold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIE'WS §5 



EDITORIAL 88 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 89 



Editorial, April, 71/(7/'^/ 05.goor/ IVright ; Nature-Study Organizations, B. S. Bowdish ; 

 The Value of Blackbirds. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 25. The Red-winged Blackbird. With colored plate hy 



Bruce Ploisf all • Mabel Osgood IVright. 93 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 97 



Legislation; Congress and the Biological Survey. 



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

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History yyth Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City. JV. 5' 



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To those whose subscriptions 

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On receipt of your renewal we 

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Reduced facsimile of the reproduction of 

 Horsfall's colored drawing of the Evening Gros- 

 beak. Presented to every subscriber to Vol. 

 IX, 1907, of Bird-Lore. The original, 

 printed on heavy plate paper, suitable for 

 framing, is life-size. 



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