j&irli lore 



November - December, 1911 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Evening Grosbeak Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Birds and Seasons in My Garden. Illustrated. Sixth and Concluding Paper. 



Mabel Osgood Wright. . 279 



Photographing the Virginia Rail. Illustrated Alfred C. Redfield. . 285 



Bird Life in the Everglades. Illustrated Alanson Skinner. . 288 



A Shrike and Its Prey. Illustrated Berners B. Kelley . . 292 



Notes on Birds of the Red River Sand Bars. Illustrated F. B. Isley. . 293 



Bird-Lore's Twelfth Christmas Bird Census 296 



Notes om Bird-Lore's Eleventh Christmas Census Francis H. Allen. . 296 



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

 ored plate by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W . W . Cooke. . 298 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twelfth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 300 

 The Evening Grosbeaks of Leominster, Mass Edwin Russell Davis. . 300 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 303 



A Strange Partnership, Wilbur F. Smith; A Unique Experience with the 

 Ruffed Grouse, Clifton W. Loveland; Bohemian Waxwings and Evening 

 Grosbeaks in Chicago, F. A. Pennington; Two Towhees Wintering at 

 Englewood, J. T. Nichols; Pine Grosbeaks in Southern Maine, in August, 

 19 II, B. Franklin Pepper; Notes on Hawks, Julius C. Peter; Notes from 

 Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; Twenty-ninth Annual Congress of the 

 American Ornithologist's Union. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 309 



Herrick's Instinct and Intelligence in Birds; Herrick's Nests and Nest- 

 building IN Birds; Howell's Birds of Arkansas; McAtee's Woodpeckers 

 IN Relation to Trees; Plate from Rubow's The Common Gull; The 

 Ornithological Magazines. 

 Feeding-Table for Birds. Illustrated 313 



EDITORIAL 314 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 315 



The Nature Study Conference; Suggestions for Teacher and Pupil; From 

 Young Observers; From Adult Observers, (Illustrated). 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 53. The Horned Lark. With colored plate by 



Bruce Horsfall E. H. Forbush . . 322 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 326 



Directory of State Societies; President Dutcher; Seventh Annu.al 

 Meeting; A Result of Stopping Spring Shooting, (Illustrated); Martin 

 House Made from a Flour Barrel; A Correction; New Members; Aus- 

 tralian Feather Trade; Enforcement of Aigrette Plumage Law; Klamath 

 Lake Reservation. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES 

 FOR 1911 332 



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