Contents. 



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 Page. 



English Press on Feather Millinery igo 



An Earnest Appeal to Young America 230 



Cranks 2'?6 



A Word for the English Sparrow ; 254 



Proposed Monument to Audubon 260 



Five Hundred Dollars Reward , 282 



The ' 'Audubon " for 1888 283 



Bird Helpers 285 



ECONOMIC ORNITHOLOGY. 



Services of Hawks and Owls 5y 



Birds as Propagators of Fruit Trees 67 



Earth Builders gy 



Do Not Kill the Owls , n^ 



Maintaining the Balance of Life \ 106 



Birds as Fertilizers 163 



Economic Ornithology 211, 284 



The Rice Bird 235 



TALES AND SKETCHES. 



The Two Princesses j -, . 



A Memory of My Boyhood ■. ^6 



Charley's Wonderful Journeys. (Illustrated) 40, 63, 82, 160 208 



What the Robin Saw eg 



Byram and Ghopal 61, 85, 103, 151, 185, 204, 227, 277 



Sailor Jack. (Illustrated) qq 



Annie's New Home j j^ 



All Night on a Mountain 232 



Princess Ruby-Throat. (Illustrated) 240 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Man the Destroyer „ 



The Selborne Society jg 



What is a Bird ? 2i 



Winscombe Sketches 5„ 



My Pet Rats „„ 



9j 



Natural History Museum Reception j jy 



Local Bird Nomenclature ^5. 



Skunks and Potato Bugs 214 



Manual of North American Birds. 236 



Study of Natural History in Schools 260 



A Dishumanizing Amusement 261 



