JBirU - lore 



May- June, 1918 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Phainopepla, Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Three Years After. Illus Mabel Osgood Wright. . 201 



A Blameless Cat William Brewster. . 211 



The Lark. Verse. Illus Edmund J. Sawyer. . 213 



The Whip-poor-will. Illus Melicent Eno Humason. . 214 



My Nuthatch Tenants and a Pair or Red-headed Ruffians R. W. Williams. . 217 



The Migration of North American Birds. IV. The Waxwings and Phainopepla. . 



Harry C. Obernolser. . 219 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Illus Frank M. Chapman. . 222 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 224 



Booming of the American Bittern (Illus.), Geo. W. H. vos Burgh; Spring Migration 

 IN THE 'Ramble,' Blanche Samek; Sparrow Hawk and Starling, H. I. Hartshorne; 

 Yellow Warbler vs. Cowbird (Illus.), E. S. Daniels and Geo. F. Taium; The 

 Evening Grosbeak in Minnesota in Midsummer, D. Lange; Pine Siskins near 

 Edmonds, Wash., Mrs. Eugene D. Lindsay; How We Made a Bird-Bath, Maud 

 Stanwood; Notes from London, Ont., C. G. Watson, Sec. 



THE SEASON. VII. February IS to April 15, 1918 230 



Winsor M. Tyler; Charles H. Rogers; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Lynds Jones; 

 Thomas S. Roberts; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 235 



Arthur's 'Birds of Louisiana'; Pearson's 'Tales from Birdland'; The Orni- 

 thological Magazines; Book News. 



EDITORIAL 238 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 239 



Awake to the Times, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work; Suggestive Lessons in 

 Bird-Study; The Blue Jay, William Gould Vinal; For and from Adult and Young 

 Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 96, Slate-colored Junco. With Colored Plate by- 

 Bruce Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson. . 252 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 259 



A Summer Outing for Bird-Study; Stinking Lake, a Bird Sanctuary; A 

 Bird Hospital (Illus.); The Pennsylvania Plumage Law; Summer Schools for 

 Bird-Study; Game -Law Enforcement in New York; First State Cat Law; 

 Another Bird Sanctuary; A New Bird Fountain; Bird Day in South Carolina; 

 New Life Members; Contributors to the Egret Fund. 



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 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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