March -April, 1901 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 

 pRtjNTispiECE.— A Scene in the Murre Rookery of Walrus Island 



Photograplied by H. D Chichester . . 



Walrus Island, a Bird Metropolis of Bering Sea. Illustrated by H. D. Chichester 



. Frederic A. Lucas 45 



Our Buje Jay Neighbors. Illustrated by 7%oj. 5. /?o5c;-/j- Mis. Harriet Carpenter Thayer 50 



Early Larks. Illustrated by the author F. A. Van Sunt 54 



Saw -WHET Homes. Illustrated by the author P. B. Peabody 55 



The Song Sparrow. Verse Lynn Tew Sprague . 58 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Tree -Planting 59 



Birds and Seasons — Third Series — 



April and May Bird-Life Near Boston Ralph Hoffmann . . 59 



April and May Bird- Life Near New York City ,• Frank M. Chapman 61 



April and Ma^' Bird-Life Near Philadelphia Witmer Stone . 63 



April and May Bird-Life Near Oberlin, O Prof. Lynds Jones . . 64 



April and May Bird-Life at Glen Ellyn, 111 ..... Benjamin T. Gault . 65 



April and May Bird-Life at Stockton, Cal. Lyman Belding . . 67 



Spring Migration in Central P.\rk, New York City S. H. Chubb 62 



Suggestions for the Season's Study, 67 ; Suggestions for the Season's Reading, 69 ; What 

 Bird is This? (illustration), 69. 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



The a B C of Bird- Lore. Illustrated by Ernest W. Smith . . Elizabeth Hop pin Lewis . . 70 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY ... 73 



The Brown Creeper's Force of Habit, Wtn. L. Baily ; A Birds' Bath (illustrated), Frank 

 M. Chapman; Buried Treasure, IV. O. Doolittle. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS ... 75 



Fannie H.ardy Eckstorm's ' The Bird Book '; Eaton's ' Birds of Western New York '; 

 Crockett's ' A Year Book of Kentucky Woods and Fields'; Grinnell's 'Birds of 

 the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska'; The Ornithological Magazines — ' The Con- 

 dor,' 'The Osprey,' 'Wilson Bulletin.' 



EDITORIAL. . . 78 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 79 



Some Fundamental Principles of Bird Laws, T. S. Palmer ; Report of the Massachu- 

 setts Society; Annual Meeting of the New York Society; The Conference 

 Committee. 



*** Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and exchanges should be 

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, New Jersey. 



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PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT 



Bird- Lore for June might be called a 'Burroughs' Number,' Mr. Burroughs having written for 

 it the history of 'A Bewildered Phoebe' that nested near ' Slabsides,' while Frank M. Chapman con- 

 tributes an account of a bird -nesting expedition with Mr. Burroughs in which the ' bewildered ' Phoebe, 

 as well as other birds, are shown in photographs of more than usual interest. 



The issue will also contain a charmingly written article by Annie Trumbull Slosson, the well-known 

 author of ' Fishin' Jimmy,' and a suggestive contribution from Tudor Jenks, of ' St. Nicholas.' 



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