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July - August, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Varied Thrush, St. Lucas Robin Bruce Horsfall . 



A Southern California Aviary. Illustraled • ' H. L. SefLun . 147 



A Report on the Nesting Birds in the Vicinity of Riverview Park, Allegheny, Pa., 



FOR iqo6 William G. Pitcairn . 155 



Bird Protection in Italy as it Imprksses the Italian Francis H. Herrick . 156 



Wood-Thrush on Nest. Illuslratioii F. E. Howe . 161 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-lists 162 



The Migration OF Thrushes Founh Paper. Illustrated with colored plates from drawings 



\)y Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall W. IV. Cooke . 166 



The New Bird-groups in the American Museum of Natural History. Illustraied 168 



Frank M. Chapman 

 Slate-colored Junco. Illustration Thotnas S. Roberts . 170 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 171 



Notes on the Starling, Afrs Paul R. Bonner; A Call for Notes on thh Starling, Frank 

 M. Chapman: A Winter Flight ok Vesper Sparrows, Robert C- Murphy; An Owl 

 Tragedy, IV. DelV. Miller : Prairie Horned Larks in Connecticut; Red breasted 

 Nuthatches and Pine Finches on Staten Island, N. N ., James Chafiin. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 175 



'Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress'; Mershon's 

 'Passenger Pigeon'; Montgomery on the Protection of Birds; Woodruff'- Rirusof 

 THE Chica(.o Area'; Journal of the Maine OrnithologicalSociety; 'Bri i ish Birds.' 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT . . 177 



August AND P'locki.ng Time Mabel Osgood IVrioht 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 27. Indigo Bunting. With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall 



Mabel Osgood Wright 179 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 183 



Editoriai , W D.; The Audubon Club in The Bahamas, Alice M Roynton; Legislation: 

 New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut; A Bison Herd in the 

 Adirondacks. 



SUPPLEMENT — SPECIAL LEAFLET NO. 10. The Wood Duck. Witli colored plate by 



Allan Brooks - William Dutclier 1S9 



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

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

 New York City. N. V 



Subscribers whose subscription 

 has expired 'will find a renewal 

 blank enclosed in the present num- 

 ber of the magazine. 



To those whose subscriptions 

 expired with the June, 1907, 

 issue and who have not notified us 

 to discontinue their magazine, the 

 present number is sent in the belief 

 that the matter of rene-wal has 

 been overlooked. 



On receipt of your renewal 'we 

 will send you the colored Grosbeak 

 picture, which should be consid- 

 • red due notification of the entry 

 of your subscription. 



If you do not care to rene'w, will 

 you please notify us. 



Reduced facsimile of the reproduction of 

 Horsfall'a colond drawing of the Evening Gios- 

 beak. Presented to every subscriber to Vol 

 IX, igo7, 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 Hariisburg, Pa. 



