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July -August, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 Frontispiece in Color. Gray, Plumbeous, Yellow - Green, Yellow- 

 throated AND Blue-headed Vireos Louis Agassiz Fuertes.. 



A Cow-bird's Nursery. Illustrated Clinton G. Abboll. . 149 



The Hermit Thrush. Verse Marion Murdoch. . 153 



Some Nesting Habits of the Wood Pewee. Illustrated Amanda Elliott. . 154 



The Towhee. Illustrated Clias. E. Heil.. 158 



Black Tern. Illustration J . M. Schreck . . 160 



Remarks on the Habits of the Kingfisher on the New Hampshire Coast 



Illustrated Henry R. Carey . . 161 



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



W . W . Cooke. . 165 



House Wrens. Illustration J. C. Elson.. 168 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society Bird Lists 169 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 174 



The Dovekie Near Buffalo, Everett P. Wheeler, II; Retr'ibution, Illustrated, 

 II'. W Arnold; A Young Oriole's Experience, Melt Rice; Red-wings Going 

 to Roost, Leander S. Keyser; Benumbed Grosbeaks, Isabella McC. Lemmon; 

 Nest-moving. Harold Russell; Records of Kirtland's Warbler, Loren C. 

 Retry; Blue-Winged and Prairie Warblers Near Chicago, Lucy V. Baxter 

 Coffin; A Persistent Robin, Mrs. E. J. Walker 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 178 



Watson's 'Behavior of the Noddy and Sooty Terns'; Wright's, 'Birds of 

 the Boston Public Garden'; Grinnell's 'Bibliography'; Kaeding's Index 

 TO 'The Condor'; John's 'Birds in Their Haunts'; Crummer's 'Mig Robin'; 

 Waterton's Wanderings; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 182 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTDIENT 183 



Educational Leaflet No. 39. The House Wren, with colored plate by Bruce 



Horsjall Mabtl Osgood Wright 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 187 



'liiF. Trade in Aigrettes; The Brown Tail Moth; Law Enforcement in 

 Oregon; Report of Klamath Lake Warden; News from Texas; Mosquito 

 Inllt Reservation; A Plea for the Sharp-Shinned Hawk; A Resolution; 

 Our Duty to Our Bird Tenants. 



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