ISirti^lDre 



May -June, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Hermit, Olive-backed and Grav-cheeked Thrushes . Btuce Horsfall . 

 A Sketch of the Thrushes of North America. Willi maps .Jonathan Dwigkt,Jr., M.D. . 103 



The Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Illustrated . . B. S. Bowdish . no 



Some Bird Acquaintances . Emma E. Drew . 114 



Some Edmonton, Alberta, Birds. Illustrated Sidney S. S. Stansell . 118 



The Migration of Thrushes Third Paper. Illustrated with colored plates from drawings 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall ,. . . . IV. IV. Cooke . 121 



Correspondence Letter from F. A Lucas 125 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 126 



English Sparrows and Electric Lights, Harriet Randolph; Red-breasted Nuthatch at 

 Sea, Mrs. M. B. Mitchell: The Wood Duck and Canvasback in British Columbia, /l//a« 

 Brooks; Bird Notes from New Mexico, 7)/r5. Charles T.Bartlett; The Blue Jay's Food, 

 A. H. Barber; Nesting-Sites of the American Long-eared Owl in Manitoba, A^orwaw 

 Criddle; A Late Warbler, Louts Durliam; A New Robin Food, H. S. Bixby; Catbird 

 on Nest, illustration, E. E Howe. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS . 13° 



Forbush's 'Useful Birds and Their Proiection'; The Ornithological Magazine; Book 

 News. 



EDITORIAL 132 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 133 



Editorial, June, Mabel Osgood Wright. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 26. Baltimore Oriolf.. With colored plate by .ffrwrj? //t>»i/a// 



Mabel Osgood Wright . 134 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT . . . 13S 



Legislation, W. D.; California, W. Scott IFav; Connecticut, E. H. Forbush; Missouri, 

 H. R. Walmslev; North Carolina, South Carolina, T. Gilbert Pearson; South Da- 

 kota, Oregon,' W. D.; Texas, M. />'. Davis; Wisconsin, W. D.; Plume Sales. 



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

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City, N. Y 



Subscribers whose subscription 

 has expired will find a renew^al 

 blank enclosed in the present num- 

 ber of the magazine. 



To those whose subscriptions 

 expired with the January, 1907, 

 issue and who have not notified us 

 to discontinue their magazine, the 

 present number is sent in the belief 

 that the matter of renewal has 

 been overlooked. 



On receipt of your renew^al we 

 will send you the colored Grosbeak 

 picture, which should be consid- 

 ered due notification of the entry 

 of your subscription. 



If you do not care to renew, will 

 you please notify us. 



Reduced facsimile of the reproduction of 

 Horsfall's colored drawing of the Evening Gros- 

 beak. Presented to every subscriber to Vol. 

 IX, IQ07, of Bird-Lore. The original, 

 printed on heavy plate paper, suitable for 

 framing, is life-size. 



Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Hartisburg, Pa. 



