Mx^ - lore 



July- August, 1918 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 Frontispiece in Color. Northern and Loggerhead Strikes. ..Louis A gassiz Fuertes 



Notes on the Nesting of the Nashville Warbler. Illustrated H. E. Tuttle. . 269 



The Blue Jay's Wheatless Day. Illustrated Ansel B. Miller. . 272 



How I Mothered a Pair of Hummingbirds P. Gregory Cartlidge. . 273 



The Black-billed Cuckoo. Illustrated C.W. Leister. . 277 



Bird-Walks Charles B. Floyd. . 279 



Spotted Sandpiper Colonies. Illustrated J.W. Lippincott. . 282 



NiGHTHAWK Leaving Nest. Illustrated 285 



The Migration of North American Birds. V. The Shrikes H. C. Oberholser. . 286 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Illustrated. Frank M. Chapman. . 290 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 291 



Summer Records of Winter Birds in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Ralph Beebe; 

 A Santa Barbara Hummer, Oscar R. Coast; The Black-chinned Hummingbird, Ella 

 Getchell; Birds and Bees, John G. Parker; The 'Stake-Driver' Again, Henry Turner 

 Bailey; A Unique Wren Nest (Illus.), Walter A. Goelitz; The Blue Jay Will Murder, 

 G. S. Young; With the Martins in Flocking-Time; Flocking Swallows (Illus.), 

 E. J. Sawyer; Scene from the Home-Life of the Chestnut-sided Warbler (Illus.), 

 C. W. Leister; The Bandit — A Street Scene from Birddom, C. Bonnig; The Wren, 

 A House-Breaker, Mrs. Arthur F. Gardner; A Family of Brown Thrashers (Illus.), 

 Mary Galloway; The Language of Robins, Rose M. Egbert; Our Summer Visitors, 

 Mrs. M. B. Des Brisay; Robin Nesting on the Ground, Ansel B. Miller. 



THE SEASON. VIII. AprU 15 to June 15, 1918 302 



Winsor M. Tyler; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Thomas S. Roberts; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 307 



Townsend's Tn Audubon's Labrador;' Miller's 'Birds of Lewiston-Auburn;' Traf- 

 ton's 'The Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools;' 'The Condor;' Book 



News. 



EDITORIAL 309 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 310 



Practical Conservation of Birds, A. H. W .; Junior Audubon Work, A. H. W .; Means 

 OF Securing Interest in Bird-Study; Bird-Houses; An Audubon Library Exhibit; 

 A True Bluebird Story; A Bird Story; My Friend, Jim Crow; A Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak Family. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 322 



The Enabling Act Becomes a Law; A Junior Class in the Mountains; Elgin (III.) 

 Audubon Society's Avnu\l Exhibif; Birds and Cats; Report of Junior Audubon 

 Classes; 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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