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iSirli-lore 



March- April, 1903 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES PAGE 



Frontispiece. — Bluebird at Nest. Photographed by . A. L. Princehorn . 42 



A Sierra Nighthawk Family. Illustrated , . ... Florence Merriam Bailey . 43 



Two Views of California Bird-Life. Photographed by John Rowley . 46 



A Family of Barn Owls. Illustrated Thomas J^. Jackson . 47 



Questions for Bird Students . . . . 49 



The Heath Hen in New Jersey. Illustrated 50 



Nesting of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet Anna Head . 52 



Bartram's Plover on Nest. Photographed by J. £. Seebold . 54 



Two Osprey Pictures. Photographed by Ernest Harold Baynes 55 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



How to Study Birds. The Nesting Season Frank M. Chapman . 56 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Councilors. Third Series ... 60 



Portraits of O. G. Libby, W. B. Barrows, W. Clyde Todd, H. Nehrling, W. W. Cooke, 

 Charles Keeler, E. H. Barbour, M. J. Elrod. 



Death of Thomas McIlwraith . . 62 



What Bird is This? Illustration 62 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 63 



A Swimming Crow. Francis H Allen,- Nest-building Habits of the Chickadee, Roscoe 

 J. Webb; Snowflakes in Trf.es, Laurence J. Webster; California Nature-Books: 

 The Michigan Ornithological Club. 



BOOK NEW^S AND REVIEWS 65 



Dugmore's ' Nature and a Camera'; Strong's ' Development of Color in Feathers'; 

 Bonhatr's ' Bahama Notes'; Weed's 'Bibliography of Economic Oknithologv ' ; 

 Blatchlfy's 'A Nature Wooing'; Knight's 'Birds of Wyoming'; Thh Ornitho- 

 logical Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 6S 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 7i 



Free Lfctures, Free Bird Charts, Free Circulating Libraries, Mabel Osgood Wright ; 

 Report of Pennsylvania Societies; Pelican Island Reservation; Legislation; 



Notes. 



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