Mxt} lore 



September - October, 1909 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece. The Black Duck's Courtship Flight E. J . Sawyr . . 



The Courtship of Black Ducks E.'J. Sawyer . . 195 



Woodpeckers and June- Bugs A. V . Goodpasture . . 196 



A Successful Failure. Illustrated Norman McClinlock . . 198 



Hawk's Challenge. Verse Dora Read Goodalc. . 204 



Hawks Hunting William Cogswell Clarke. . 205 



Two Warbler Photographs. Illustrated Albert Morgan. . 206 



The Hanging Home in the Oak Tree. Illustrated.. ..Harriet Williams Myers.. 209 



Blue Jay Boarders. Illustrated Paula .1 . Ritler . . 212 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 214 



\ Word for the Cowbird, R. J . O'Neal; City Bird-Life, Mary F. Day; Birds 

 AT Mount St. Gabriel, Peekskill, N. Y., Sister Superior, St. Gabriel's School; 

 Save the Underbrush, Samuel Dowse Robbins; The English Sparrow and 

 Bird Boxes, Althea R. Sherman; Sheltering Wings, M. L. Davis. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 218 



Cory's ' Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin'; 'Dorothy Brooke's Schoolday's'; 

 The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 222 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 223 



How One School Made Bird Houses J ohn D. Honey . . 223 



Educational Leaflet No 40. The Bush-Tit, with colored plate by Bruce Hors- 



jall William Finley . . 225 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 229 



Annual Me-jting of the National Association; How to Attract Birds; Indi- 

 ana News; A Friend of the Farmer; Old Man Island Reservation; How 

 to Attract Martins; About the Aigrette ; The 'Millinery Trade Re- 

 view'; The Sharp-Shinned Hawk Again; Legislation in New Engl.\nd. 



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