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January- February, 1903 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece.— Mallee Fowl Egg-Mound. Photographed by A J. CmtipbeU . 2 



The Mound- Building Birds of Australia. Illustrated A.J. Campbell. 3 



Making Bird Friends. Illustrated ' .■ Laurence /. Webster 9 



The Return of the Nuthatch. Illustrated E. M. Mead . 12 



The Christmas Bird Census 14 



Questions for Bird Students. II 20 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 21 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Councilors ... 23 



Portraits of Robert Ridgway, A K. Fisher, T. S. Roberts, J. M. Southwick, John Fannin, T. 

 Mcllwraith, Marcus E Jones, Egbert Bagg. 



How to Study Birds. Second Paper Frank M. Chapman . 25 



Mounted Birds in Illustration . . Abbott H. Thayer . 28 



What Bird is This? Illustration ... 29 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 30 



Attracting Birds, Mary E. Dolbear; An Anti-Sparrow Food Shelf (Illustrated ) 



BOOK NEW^S AND REVIEWS 31 



Ridgway's ' BiRDs OF North and Middle America'; Pigott's 'London Birds'; Jacobs' 

 'Story of a Martin Colony' (Illustrated) ; Preble's Biological Investigation of 

 THE Hudson Bay Region'; The Ornithological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIALS 35 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 35 



Editorial: Bird Protection in India, T. S. Palmer. Reports of North Carolina, 

 Vermont and Connecticuf Audubon Societies. 



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