January - February, 1901 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Pelican Island Rkvisited. Illustrated by the author Frank M. Chapman 3 



Elliott Coues on Audubon. Illustrated .... . . . . . ... 9 



Three Letters to Audubon's Kentucky Lads Contributed by Afor/a R.Audubon . . 14 



An Adirondack Lunch Coi'Nter. Illustrated by the author F. A. Van Sant . . 18 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 20 



Birds and Seasons — Second Series — 



February and March Bird-Life Near Boston Ralph Hoffmann . . 22 



February and March Bird-Life Near New York City Frank M. Chapman . . 23 



February and March Bird-Life Near Philadelphia ll'itmer Stone . . 24 



February and March Bird-Life at Oberlin, O. Prof. Lynds Jones . . 25 



February and March Bird-Life at Glen Ellyn, 111 Benjamin T. Gmilt . 26 



Note. — Mr. Chas. Keeler's unexpected departure on a voyag^e of exploration in the Pacific 

 has prevented him from continuing his articles on Californian Bird-Life, and the series will 

 be written by Mr. Lyman Belding, the well-known authority on California birds. 

 Suggestions for the Season's Study, 27 ; Suggestions for the Season's Reading, 28. 



The Christmas Bird Census 23 



An Additional December Record, 33; What Bird is This? (illustration), 33. 



Notes from the New York Zoological Society. I. Enterprising Eagles. Illustrated 

 by the author C. William Beebe, Asst. Curator of Birds . . 34 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 35 



Dwight's Moults of the Passerine Birds of New York ; Jordan & Kellogg's 'Animal 

 Life'; Ke.-^rton's 'Our Bird Friends'; Palmer & Olds' 'Laws Regulating the 

 Transportation and Sale of Game ' ; The Ornithological Magazines — The Auk ; 

 Book News. 



EDITORIAL. A Question of the Day 38 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 40 



Editorial; Hats; Reports of New York and Pennsylvania Societies; The Baltimore 

 Gull Seizure; Proposed New Bird Laws. 



Note.— The Departments ' For Young Observers ' and ' Notes From Field and Study ' are omitted 

 from this issue to give space for ' The Christmas Bird Census.' 



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