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September - October, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES P'^f^F 



Frontispiece — Sclitaire, Mountain Bluebird Louis Ag^assiz Fut-rtes 



Bird Protection in Italy as it Impresses the Italian Francis H. Herrick 193 



The House Wren. Illustrated . Frfd L. Holts . 'qS 



A Study of a House Wren Elizabeth Freewaii Teti Eyck . 2ui 



An Attempt to Establish a Purple Martin Colony William C. Norton 214 



The Migration of Thrushes Fifth and Concludine; Paper. Illustrated vvitli colored plates 



i\om Ar^wiu^shy Lotiis Ag-assiz Fiie7-tes ajid Bruce Hoiisfall ... IV. IF. Cuoke 205 



Bird-Lork's Colored Plates 20=; 



The Starling in America 206 



Notes by Robert O. Morris, Geors:e P Ells, A. A. Saunders, Robert S. Judd, Clifford Ff. 



Pansburu. Albeit Morgan, P. F. Buttrick, Frances M Graves, Jaiiics Chapin,Ruy Latham, 



R. C. Caskey, Isabel McC. Lemmon, W. i)eW. Miller. 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY . 211 



Trapping English Sparrows, Mrs. P. R Bonner; A Plea for the Sparrow, M. F.loise 

 Rumnev; Engi,ish Sparrow Notes, Leila F'.. Ffonsinger and Richard M, Hunt; An 

 Attractive Visitor, Mary Pier son Allen; TheSkylarkson Lonc, Island, /? .S Bowdish; 

 Horned Lark BREEDiv(i in Connecticut, C. A. Pangbum; A FRIENDL^■ Niithatch, 

 Illustiated, Edwin C. Brown. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS .... 220 



Anderson's 'Birds of Iowa'; 'Cassinia'; Townsrnd and Allen's 'Birds of Labrador'; 

 Townsend's 'Along the Labrador Coast'; Tnii Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 223 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 221 



October and Pkeparaiions for Winter 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 28. Purple Finch With colored i)laie hy Hi m e fl,-is/'alt 



Mabel Osgood ll'i igkt 2.\s 

 AUDUBON SOCIETIES- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 2S9 



Annual Meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies ; Wood Duck and 

 ScLMMER Wood Cock Shooting Condemned; New Bird Reservations in the Gulf 

 OF Mexico with Executive Orders and Maps; Report of Exploration of Seabikd 

 Colonies on the Coast of Louisiana, H. H. Kopman. 



*♦* Manuscripts intended for publication . books, etc., for revieiv and exchanges should he 

 sent to the Flditor, at the Ameiican Museum of Natural History. 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York Citv. N. }' 



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