iSirti^lare 



November - December, 1901 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES 



Frontispiece. — A Sitting Ptarmigan : Evan Lewis . 



Recognition Marks of Birds. Illustrated by the author .... Ernest Setoit- Thompson 187 



A Bird of the Season. Illustrated by the author . . . . . . . C. William Beebe 190 



Mockingbird Notes. Illustrated by A. Radclyffe Dugmoie . . Mrs. Lticy Gould Baldwin 192 



A Christmas Bird Census -193 



A New Device for Securing Birds' Pictures. Illustrated .... Frank M. Chapman . . 194 



Bird-Life in the Klondike ... 'Tappan Adney . 



On Hearing a Winter Wren Sing in Winter. Verse Lynn Tew Sprague 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Illustration Thos. S. Roberts . 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



How to Na.me the Birds Illustrated Frank M. Chapmaii . . 200 



What Bird is This? Illustration 206 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



My Bird Restaurant. Illustrated Edmund I{\ Sinnott . . la-j 



A Prize Offered 208 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 209 



Taming a Nuthatch, E. M. Mead : A Ptarmigan's Nest, Evan Lewis ; Nesting of Cros.s- 

 BiLLs, E. Joly De Lotbiniere ; Nineteenth Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 212 



Babson's 'Birds of Princeton;' Judd's 'Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture;' 

 LooMis' 'California Water Birds;' McGregor's 'Land Birds of Santa Cruz 

 County;' 'The Auk;' 'The Condor;' Book News. 



EDITORIAL 215 



Bird-Lore for 1902. 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 217 



Editorial: The Audubon Conference; Reports of Societies; New Societies; Massa- 

 chusetts Society; Virginia Society; Florida Society. 



*** Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review, and excha)iges should be 

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, New Jersey. 



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Complete sets of Volumes I and II of 'Bird-Lore' can still be supplied. 



Volume I contains 206 pagres, with 79 illustrations; Volume II, 204 pages, with 80 illus- 

 trations, or a total of 410 pagres (equivalent to about 800 pagres of the average l2mo book), 

 and 159 illustrations. 



Every number of ' Bird-Lore ' is as readable and valuable today as when it was issued, 

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PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT 

 Bird-Lore for February, 1902, will contain a list of the members of the Advisory Council, 'Recollections 

 of Elliott Coues ' by D. G. Elliot and Capt .C. A. Curtis, with a photograph of Dr. Coues at twenty-one ; 

 ' The Weapons of Birds ' by F. A. Lucas (illustrated), the second part of ' How to Name the Birds ' by 

 Frank M. Chapman, some remarkable moonlight photographs of roosting Crows, etc. 



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