Copyright, j888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Kntered at New Yoik Post Cfficc as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1888. 



The Mockingbird ( Mimus poly»lotlos (Linn.) ), (After Audubon's Plate) Frontispiece. 



Tiie IVIockingbird 47 



Hints to Audubon Workers.— (Aiik.nui.v.) By l-'lorcme A. Mciriam 49 



Charley's Wonderful Journeys.— VII. (Illustrated.) By C. F. Ameiy 53 



The Audubon Monument. (Illustrated.) 56 



Two Little Captives, (illustrated.) By Etheldred B. Bany 58 



Helpless Pets. By Ih-hn v. Austin 60 



By Albatross Mail Oi 



Bird Myths. — I. Corvis, the Crow. By Emily Thacher Bennett 62 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 64 



S.A.VING the Tree 64 



A Crossbill in Min-OcE,\N 64 



The Sparrow Correspondence 64 



rRKSERVATION OK THE YELLOWSTONE TaRK 65 



Eminent People on Bird Protection 66 



Useful and Entertaining Bool^s. 



THE FOrJ.OWIXG WORKS ON- NATURAL ffl STORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 

 THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles .\bout Home, Abbott, ^i 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 



A. O. U. Check List of X. A. F.irds 3 00 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus. , Menaut. . . i 00 



American Bird Fancier 50 John Rurroughs' 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. (1. Wilson (with steel plate en- Mammals of New York, paper f .j ; 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 Sti-eani 75 Native Song Birds 75 



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



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll . 1 25 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Fastern Pennsylvania 400 PracticalTaxidermy& Home Decoration, Ratty i 50 



Birds and their I launts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing I'.irds, 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 'J'axidermists' Manual, illus., Brown 50 



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



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



llolden'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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