l&irti-lDre 



May -June, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Coi.ok Black-Capped, Hutton's, White-eyed, Least, and 



Bell's Vireos Louis Afiossn Fuertes . . 



A Bird Photographer's Outfit. Illustrated A.C.Benl.. loi 



Two Interesting Photographs from Alberta Sidney S. S. Slansell.. io8 



A Tragedy ok Migration F. M. Bennett, Commander U. S. Navy., no 



Bobolink; His Prelude. Verse Mary J. Jacques .. 113 



A Crow Study. Illustrated Alfred C. Redfitld. . 114 



Blue-headed ViREO on NEST. Illuslration Ansel B. Miller .. 117 



The Migration of Vireos. Second paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.. 



IV. W. Cooke.. 118 



Further Note ox .\lhino Flickers Lorcn C. Pelry .. 120 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 121 



A Redpoll Invasion, Richard C. Harlow: Redpolls and White-winged Cross- 

 bills in New Haiipshire, Bessie Scribner Davis; Redpolls in New Jersey, 

 Chas. D Lippincott . Pine Siskins in Vermont, E. F. Miller; The Wood- 

 cock's Song, Robert T. Morris: Observations on the Life History of the 

 Bobolink. P. L. Bulterick; Evening Grosbeaks in Massachusetts, Anne H. 

 Wliitinf;, The Evening Grosbeak in Wisconsin, Gertrude M. Titus; The 

 Ipswich Cardinal, illustrated, Frank A. Brown; A Bobolink Tragedy, illus- 

 trated, R. H. Beebe ; A Course in Bird Study; A Devoted Parent, Jean 

 Martin; Stormbound Birds, Fanny S. Watrous ; More Central Park (New 

 York City) Notes, Ludlow Griscom; Nesting Notes From California, 7o/m 

 McB. Robertson. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 131 



'In American Fields and Forests;' Grinnell's 'The Biota of the San Ber- 

 ARDiNO Mountains;' Knowlton's ' Birds of the World;' Chapman's 

 'Camps and Cruises;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 134 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 135 



Educational Leaflet No. 38. The Bobolink, with colored plate by Bruce 



Hursjall Frank M. Chapman 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 141 



Legislation ; Good R::sults of .\nti-Spring Shooting in Naw York ; Second 

 Annual Report from Forest and Field Club of Belmont, Mass. 



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