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November - December, 1907 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — -Scissor-tailed and Vermilion Flycatchers 



Louis Agassiz Fueries. 



A Thrashing by Thrashers. Illustrated Herbert K. Job. 241 



Around the Horn for Petrels. Illustrated John Treadwell Nichols . 245 



The Heath Hen. Illustrated Dr. George W. Fie d. 249 



A Season's Field Work. Illustrated Frank M . Chapman. 256 



Bird-Lore's Eighth Christmas Bird Census 263 



The Migration of Flycatchers. First Paper. Illustrated by Louis As;assi?. Fuertes 



and Bruce Horsfall W. W . Cooke. 264 



The Common Names of North American Birds F. M. C 265 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 266 



Photographing a Loon, Illustrated, John S. Perry; The St.-vrling Eats Pears, 

 Illustrated, Wiliam T. Davis; A Contribution to the Subject of Bird 

 Surgery, Illustrated, Frank M. Chapman; The Fallacy of the Moving Bird- 

 House, Illustrated, Gilbert H. Trafton; Robins Nesting in Bird-Houses, 

 Gilbert H. Trajto-i. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 271 



Fuertes' Calendar of Game Birds; Rich's Feathered Game of the North- 

 east; Goeldi's Album de Aves Amazonicas; Abstract of the Proceedings 

 of the Linnaean Society; Recent Publications of the Biological 

 Survey; Massachusetts Audubon Society's Calendar for 1908; The 

 Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 275 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 276 



For December — Six Reminders, M. O. W. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 29. Herring Gull. Illustrated. .il/aZ^c^ Osgood Wright. 277 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 282 



Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies 284 



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