Copyright, t888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1888. 



Rusty Crackle ( Scokcophagus carolinus (MUU) ). (After Audubon's Plate) Frontispiece. 



The Rusty Crackle 25 



Spencer F. Baird (With Portrait) 27 



Houses to Let. (illustrated.) By C. F. Amay 31 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— X. By Florence a. Merriam 34 



Snow Bunti.nc; Snowflake 34 



Hairy Woodpecker 35 



Downy Woodpecker 37 



White-Bellied Nuthatch; Devil Downiiead 39 



The Criatcatcher's Strategy. By w. s. Biatchiey 40 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 42 



The Dog and the Umbrella 42 



An Accomplished Bluejay 42 



Clouds of Birds 42 



Then and Now 43 



A Curious Floating Island 43 



Eminent People on Bird Protection 44 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 



THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



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 %^ ; 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, IngersoU 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 



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



Insect World, Figuier i 50 setts; Summer; each vol. .. i 50 



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