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September-October, 1918 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Horned Larks Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



The Oven-bird in Minnesota. Illustrated Thomas S. Roberts. . 329 



A Day's Sport with the Redbacks and Greater Yellow-legs. Illustrated. Verdi Burtch. . 335 



A Tragedy Louise Foucar Marshall. . 338 



Nest and Eggs of Black Duck. Illustrated 341 



Some Notes on the Ruffed Grouse. Illustrated H. E. Tuttle. . 342 



The Migration OF North American Birds. VI. Horned Larks, .//orry C. OfierM^er. . 345 

 Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Illustrated. Fiftieth Paper... 



Frank M. Chapman. . 349 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 351 



Memories of the Passenger Pigeon, Hibbard J. Jewett; Notes from Canandaigua, 

 N. Y., Georgia B. Gardner; Mockingbird in Iowa, Mrs. John Freeman; Feeding the 

 Blue Jays (Illustrated), A. J. Dadisman; Nighthawk in New York City, March 28, 

 Roy Latham; Are Starlings as Hardy as English Sparrows ? Stewart H. Burnham; 

 Two Corrections, The Editor; House Sparrows Robbing Robins, Thos. S. Roberts; 

 An Oregon Oriole, Ella Getchell; Memories of a Rainy Day, Howard K. Gloyd, Ottawa, 

 Kans.; Wild-fowl of the Susquehanna Flats, H. H. Beck. 



THE SEASON. IX. June 15 to August 15, 1918 359 



Glover M. Allen; John T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Thomas S. Roberts. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 362 



The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 363 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 364 



Present and Future Responsibilities, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work, A. H. W.; 

 For and From Adult and Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 97. Least Tern. With Colored Plate by Bruce Horsfall 



T. Gilbert Pearson. . 380 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 384 



Annual Meeting; A Reddish Egret Colony in Texas; Migratory Bird Treaty Act; 

 Migratory Bird Treaty Act Regulations. 



* J* Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and exchanges should he sent 

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



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