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i6irti*lore 



May -June, 1903 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES P^^'E 



Frontispieck— Noddies on Bird Key AG. Maver . 76 



The Tortugas Tern Coionv. IllusJlrated with photoglyphs hy A. G. Mayer, pnblislied b\- per- 



missi..ii of tlie IVIuseuni of the Brooklyn luslilute of Arts and Sciences Juse/yh Thompson . 77 



A Hf.rmit Thrush Song . . ■ ■ Theodore Clarke Smith . S4 



Nksting of the Indigo Bunting ■ . • • Li/ian Cleveland. S6 



Nest and Eggs of Catbird . . . . . F. M. C. . SS 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



How TO Study Birds. Fourth Paper ... Frank M. Chapman 89 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Councilors. Fourth Series . 96 

 Portraits of John H. Sa^e. Edgar A. Mearns, B P. Gault, C. M. Weed, Herbert Brown, A. 

 VV. Butler, Eugene Murphy, Elon H. Eaton. 



What Bird is This? Illustration . . ■ 98 



Questions for Bird Students. IV - - 9^ 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 



The a. O. U. Cai ifornia Meeting. 



BOOK NEW^S AND REVIEW^S . . i°i 



Scott's 'Story of a Bird Lover'; Chamberlain's ' Nuttall'; Mks. Bignell's 'Wood- ' 

 land Intimates'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



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