Copyright, 1887, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, i887. 



The Great Auk {After Audnbovs Plate). Frontispiece 26 



John James Audubon.— II 27 



The Great Auk (/'huitns impennis, Linn.) 29 



What is a Bird? Bv j. a. Alien 31 



Eggers of the Texas Coast. By Geo. B. Sennett 34 



A Memory of My Boyhood. By ''Kelpie" 36 



Charley's Wonderful Journey. Bv C. F. A»te>y. (illustrated) 40 



The Oriole's Prayer. AV Ulii s. Monroe 42 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Organization of the Bukkai.o Branch 43 



Conditions of Membership 43 



Memhershii- Returns 43 



The Terns of Muskeget Island 43 



A Bluejay's Droll Adventure 44 



A. O. U. Committee on Bird Protection 44 



The Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo 44 



Two Indian Bird Stories 45 



The Audubon Society 46 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED 70 



THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $i 50 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut... i 00 



A. O. U. Check List of N. A. Birds 3 00 Mammals of New York, paper $4; cloth, .... 5 00 



American Bird Fancier 50 Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan 2 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Maynard's Butterflies, colored plates 5 50 



Bird Notes, from Forest and Stream 75 Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Birds and Wild Animals, Wilson i 75 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll i 25 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 Batty i 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 Shore Birds 15 



Coues' Check List of North American Birds.. 3 00 Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton 50 



Game Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast, Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i 00 



Roosevelt 2 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus. , Brown 50 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 00 Wilson's Noctes Ambrosianre, by Prof. Wil- 



Holden's Book of Birds, paper 25 son, J. G. Lockhardt, James Hogg and Dr. 



Insect World, Figuier i 50 Maginn, 6 vols., crown 8vo., cloth, $9.00; 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 half calf 18 00 



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