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September - October, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Lazuli, Painted and Varied BvNTiiiGs. . Louis A gassiz Fuerles . . 



Birds and Seasons in My Garden. V. Flocking and Migrating. With photo- 

 graphs by the author Mabel Osgood Wright . . 2 2g 



The Nesting of Whip-poor-wills. Illustrated H. E. Tuttle. . 235 



Machias Seal Rocks. With photographs by the author Frank A. Brown. . 239 



A Wayside Thrasher. With photographs by the author /. W . Lippincott. . 246 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twelfth Paper. With col- 

 ored plate by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke . . 248 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Eleventh Paper .... 



Frank M. Chapman. . 249 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 251 



Notes on the King Rail, Julius C. Peter; A Clever Trick of the Downy 

 Woodpecker, Elliot R. Tibbeis; A Chicago Bird-List, H. T. Pepoon; Birds 

 in a Milwaukee Garden, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Mitchell; A Discovery in 

 Regard to the Towhee, Nell Hampton Dick; A Chipping Sparrow Family, 

 Afine E. Agate; A Northern Turkey Vulture, Willis G. Booth; A Patient 

 Robin, (illustrated), Anne. E. Perkins. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 255 



Roosevelt on the Coloration of Animals; Roberts' Evening Grosbeak in 

 Minnesota; Hancock's Nature Sketches in Temperate America; Seal's 

 Birds of California in Relation to the Fruit Industry; The Ornitho- 

 logical Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 263 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 264 



For Teachers, A. H. W.; A Suggestion to State Audubon Societies, A. H. 

 W.; From Young Observers; From Adult Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 53. The Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall H. K. Job . . 269 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 273 



President Dutcher; Annual Meeting of National Association; New Georgia 

 Law; The Montclair Killing; The Flocking Problem; A Petrel-Kill- 

 ing Dog (illustrated); Aigrette Traffic; Michigan. 



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 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City, N. Y. 



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