Copyright, 1S87, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, i887. 



The Cliff Swallow, { PitrockfliJon lumfrons (Say.)) {After Audubon s Plate) Frontispiece. 



Incidents of Audubon's Life 243 



The Cliff Swallow 246 



Princess Ruby-Throat. By Henrietta Christian Wright 249 



A Word for the English Sparrow. By Emma Thornton 254 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— VII. By Florence A. Merriam 256 



A Talking Crow. By Mary E. Shults 259 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Memuership Returns 260 



The Proposed Monument to Audubon 260 



Study ok N.vtural History in Schools 260 



a dishumanizing amusement 261 



What the Kansas Mail Brought Us 261 



The Audubon Society 262 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WQPKS OiV NA TUBAL fTI STORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 

 THOSE IXTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $1 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 



A. O. U. Check List of N. A. Birds 3 00 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut. . . i 00 



American Bird Fancier 50 John Burroughs' Works: Wake Robin; Win- 

 Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 ter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and 



Audubon's Journals: Compiled by his widow. Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each vol. i 50 



edited by J. G. Wilson (with steel plate en- Mammals of New York, paper $4 ; cloth 5 00 



graving of the great naturalist after Inman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



painting) ; octavo 2 00 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan 2 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Bird Notes, from Forest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds and Wild Animals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll i 25 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 Practical Taxidermy & Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i 00 



Coues' Check List of North American Birds. . 3 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus., Brown 50 



Game Water Birds of Atlantic Coast, Roosevelt 2 00 Thoreau's Works: Excursions in Field and 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 00 Forest; Walden, or Life in the Woods; The 



Iloldcn's Book of Birds, paper 25 Maine Woods; Early Spring in Massachu- 



Insect Worid, Figuicr i 50 setts; Summer; each vol i 50 



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