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November-December, 1918 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. American and Yellow-billed Magpies. . Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 

 Notes from a Traveler in the Tropics: I. Down the Coastline to Cuba. Illustrated. . 



Frank M. Chapman. . sqs 



When the North Wind Blows. Illustrated Arthur A . Allen. . 39Q 



Homeland and the Birds. Illustrated Mahel Osgood Wright. . 406 



A Wild Duck Trap. Illustrated Verdi Burtch. . 410 



The Migration of North American Birds. VII. Magpies 415 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fifty-first Paper. Frank M. Chapman. . 416 



Bird-Lore's Nineteenth Christmas Bird Census John T. Nichols. . 416 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 418 



Red Crossbills in Seattle, M. I. Compton; Maine Notes, Haydn S. Pearson; Golden-eye 

 Duck Carrying Young, W. N. Macartney, M.D.; The Birds I Watch from My Window, 

 Mrs. F. W. Gorham; Bird Horizons in the San Francisco Bay Region, Harold C. Bryant; 

 A Record of the Bald Eagle from Champaign County, III., Sidney E. Ekblaw; Our 

 Summer Boarders, Mrs. A. W. Brintnall; The Blue Grosbeak in Central Illinois, 

 Sidney E. Ekblaw; Our Winter Bird Neighbors, Katrine Blackinton; Northern Shrike 

 Visits a Feeding-Shelf, Mrs. Clark Pierce; Observations on a Food-Shelf, George 

 Roberts, Jr.; Snowy Owl in Iowa, F. May Tuttle; American Egret in Pennsylvania, 

 Conrad K. Roland; Bird-Banding, John T. Nichols. 



THE SEASON. X. August 15 to October 15, 1918 427 



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

 M.D.; Lynds Jones; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 433 



Beebe's 'Jungle Peace'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 43S 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 436 



Christmastlde Reflections, A. H. W.; New Standards in a New Era, A. H. W.; Junior 

 Audubon Work, A . H. W.; For and From Adult and Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 450 



No Annual Meeting; The Coming Year; Walter Freeman McMahon. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIE- 

 TIES FOR 1918 453 



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