AmericanL Ornithology. 



A MaLga^zine Devoted Wholly to Birds. 



Published monthly by Chas. K. Reed, 75 Thomas St., Worcester, Mass. 

 EDITED BY CHESTER. A. REED, B. S. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE in United States, Canada and Mexico, One 

 Dollar yearly in advance. Single copies, ten cents. Vols. 1, II, HI and 

 IV, ;^i.ooeach. Special: — Vols. I, II, III, IV and subscription for 

 1905, 1^3.50. We can supply back numbers at ten cents per copy. 



FOREIGN Subscription, ^1.25. 



-COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY CHAS. K. REED- 



VOL. V JANUARY. 1905. NO. 1 



We start the new year and our fifth volume with the best wishes for 

 all our readers and our friends the birds, and trust that we may become 

 more intimately acquainted with our feathered friends during the 

 coming twelve months. By the addition of more help in our other 

 lines of work, the editor's duties will be lessened so that he can devote 

 more time to the magazine work and correspondence. We will be 

 more than pleased to have all our readers lend their assistance by 

 reporting and unusual occurrences or observations concerning bird 

 life and by contributing articles. It will be greatly appreciated by the 

 editor and other subscribers. 



We are preparing a series of colored drawing of birds to be repro- 

 duced by the three-color process. These will be given in every other 

 issue. We hope to have them ready for the next number if not the 

 first will be showu in March. 



We shall have another photo competition this year, the particulars of 

 which will be given in March. Very good pictures can now be made 

 of winter birds by baiting with crumbs, suet, etc. Bear in mind that 

 we consider a good photograph of a common bird to be more accept- 

 table than a poor one of a rare bird or one difficult to photograph. 



