Copyright, 18E8, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1888. 



Portrait of Audubon Frontispiece. 



Audubonian Sketches.— I. By k. w. simfeUt 267 



The European Magpie (illustration) 268 



The European Coot (illustration) 270 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— VI 1 1. />> J-ion-mi- A. Mariam 271 



Byram and Ghopal.— VIII 277 



All About Some Canary Birds. By Mrs. d-orgc Archibald 280 



Five Hundred Dollars Reward 282 



The "Audubon" for 1888 283 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 284 



Economic Ornithology 284 



Bird Helpers 285 



The Audubon Society 286 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON^ NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 

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A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $i 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 Streavi 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 400 Practical Taxidermy & Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing ]5irds, Adams 50 Taxidermy W^ithout 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 W'orks: Excursions in Field and 



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



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



Insect World, Figuier 1 50 setts; Summer; each vol r 50 



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