May -June, 1901 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES pack 



Frontispiece. — Landlord and Tenant 84 



A Bewildered Phcebe. Illustrated John Buirnughs . 85 



The Wood Thrush. Verse . . . . Garrett Ne^vkirk . 87 



Bird-Nesting with Burroughs. Illustrated Frank M. Chapman . . 88 



A Sudden Friendship Annie Trumbull Slosson 94 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



Birds and Seasons — Fourth Series — 



June and July Bird-Life Near Boston Ralph Hoffmann . . 98 



June and July Bird-Life Near New York City Frank M. Chapman 99 



June and July Bird-Life Near Philadelphia . IVitmer Stone 100 



June and July Bird-Life Near Oberlin, Ohio . Prof. Lynds Jones . . loi 



June and July Bird-Life at Glen Ellyn, 111. . . . .... Benjamin T. Gault . 102 



June and July Bird-Life at Stockton, Cal. . . Lyman Fielding: 104 



Suggestions for the Season's Study, 105 ; Suga:estions for the Season's Reading, 105 ; What 

 Bird is This? (illustration), 106; A June Bird Census, 106. 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Song of the Whippoorwill. Verse Garrett Neuikirk . . 107 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY . ... 108 



Two Young Hummingbirds, Isabella McC. Lemmon ; My Robin Neighbors, Anna A. Jordan ,- 

 Swallow's Nest on Board Boat, Burton N. Gates: The Barred Owl in Bron.x 

 V ARK, Elizabeth G. Britton ; Spencer F. Baird Ornithological Cll^b. 



BOOK NE"WS AND REVIEWS 



Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's ' The Woodpeckers '; Babcock's ' Bird Day;' Seton-Thomp- 

 son's and Hoffmann's ' Bird Portraits'; 'The Auk'; 'The Condor.' 



EDITORIAL. . . 113 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 114 



Song Bird Reservations, M. O. W.: A Connecticut Game Preserve, Willard G. Van 

 Name. , 



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 sent to the Editor at Englewoo.l, New Jersey. 



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