Copyright, i8S8, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1888. 



The Night Heron ( Xycticorax mrfhomx incviiis (Bodd.) ). (After Audubon's Plate) FRONTISPIECE. 



The Night Heron 69 



Birds at the Bath. By UncU Tony 71 



Henry Bergh 72 



City Birds. By Ilarrh-ttf If. Boardman 75 



How 1 Learned to Love and Not to Kill. By w. M. Chauvenet 79 



Bird H istories. — Tin; Cickoo. By Emily Thacher Bennett 82 



A Plea for Our Birds. By R. F. Baxter. 83 



Some Characteristic Birds 85 



The Audubon Note Book: 



MiiMUKKsiiir Kkhrns S6 



The Audubon Monument 86 



For the Protection of Small Birds 86 



Nests 86 



Audubon Work Among the Indians 87 



Mr. De Young's Seagulls 87 



Useful and Entertaining Bool^s. 



T[IE 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 5° John Burroughs' ^Vorks: Wake Robin; Win- 

 Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 ter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locysts 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 I4 ; cloth 5 00 



gravingof the great naturalist after I nman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard I 25 



painting) ; octavo 2 co 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 W'ild Animals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll 125 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 200 



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 



GameWaterBirdsof 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- 



Inscct World, Figuier i 50 setts; Summer; each vol i 50 



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