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CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, i887. 



The Spotted Sandpiper, {Actitis maculnri,! (I.INN.) ) (.///<•;• ^ W///w«'j /"/(^z/.).. .Frontispiece. 



John James Audubon.— VIII 171 



The Spotted Sandpiper 173 



Our Smith College Audubon Society 175 



Wholesale Destruction of Birds in Florida 178 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— IV. By riormce A. Mcrriam iSi 



Byram and Ghopal.— V 185 



The Audubon Note Book : 



Membership Returns 189 



What Bird Is It 189 



English Press on Feather Millinery 189 



The Audubon Badge 189 



The Audubon Society 190 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



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American Bird Fancier 50 Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each vol. i 50 



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Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



Bird Notes, from Forest and Stream 75 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan T . . . . 2 50 



Birds and Wild Animals Wilson i 75 Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll i 25 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds and their Haunts '. 3 00 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 oo 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 5" Practical Taxidermy & Home Decoration, 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 Atlantic Coast, Roosevelt 2 00 Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i 00 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 oo Taxidermists' Manual, illus., Brown 50 



Holden's Book of Birds, paper 25 Thoreau's Works: Excursions in Field and 



Insect World, Figuier i 50 Forest; Walden, or Life in the Woods; The 



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Intelligencc of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut. . . i 00 setts; Summer; each vol i 50 



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