Mxt} lore 



January - February, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece— McCown's and Smith's Longspurs .Louis A gassiz Fuertes . . 



Birds and Seasons in My Garden, i — February and March. Illustrated by 



E. J. Sawyer and the author Mabel Osgood Wright i 



The Record op 1910 T. S. Palmer 8 



RtTFFED Grouse after Drumming. Photograph by S. 5. 5. Stansell ii 



Tracks in the Snow. Illustrated by the author E. J. Sawyer . . 12 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Eighth Paper. Illustrated by 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke . . 15 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Seventh Paper 



Frank M Chapman . . 17 



Bird-Lore's Eleventh Bird Census 18 



Tufted Titmouse. Photograph H. H. Cleaves. . 44 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 45 



Krause's Manual of Humane Education; Beetham's Home Life of the 

 Spoonbill; Rubow on the Mew Gull; Jacobs on the Purple Martin; 

 Annual Report of the Chief of the Biological Survey; Annual Report 

 of the Ornithologist of Massachusetts; The Ornithological Magazines; 

 Book News. 



EDITORIAL 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 49 



Editorial, The Promise of the Year, A. H. W.; A Thirty Minutes a Week 

 Outline for Bird-study for Teachers, A. H. W.; A Story of the Tongue, 

 A. H. W.; From Young Observers — Where the Ruffed Grouse Sleeps, 

 John M. Rogers; Do Birds 'Freeze'?, Howard D. Boyle. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 48. The Cedar Waxwing. With colored plate by 

 E. J. Sawyer E. H. Forbush . . 55 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 59 



President Dutcher; Directors' Meeting; Work under the Sage Fund; New 

 Members; Some Audubon Workers — II. William Watson Woollen; 

 Bird Destruction; A Connecticut Game Warden's Bag; Notes from 

 the Field. 



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