Copyright, 1888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Kntercd at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1888. 



The Towhee Bunting (/"////o (V-r///n'/'/////,?/w«j (Linn.)), (.\ftcr Audubon's riate).FRONTisi'iKCE. 



The Towhee Bunting 157 



Alexander Wilson.— Ill 159 



Bird Legends 161 



Queen Honey Dew. By Ilenriclt,! Clirisllan \Vr:.^h: 163 



Singular Birds. By a. B. G 168 



Arkansas Bird Notes 169 



Shore Birds 171 



The Audubon Note Book: 



Membership Returns 174 



Bird Language 174 



Clever Birds 174 



Predatory Birds 175 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED 7 



THOSE INTERESTED 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 ilkis. , 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 



gravingof the great naturalist after I nman'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 (« > 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 PracticalTaxidermy& Home Decoration, Batty i 511 



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 1 (x 



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



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



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



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



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



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