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July - August, 1910 
CONTENTS 
GENERAL ARTICLES i FAGE 
FRONTISPIECE.—PINE SISKIN, GOLDFINCH..........-..--- Louis Agassiz Fueries.. 
THE BLacK-BILLED Cuckoo aT Home. Illustrated ..........Edmund J. Sawyer... 
Some Brrp OrpuHans. Illustrated .........................---L. H. Schroeder.. 
Crive SwWALLows. dilustrated: 2.2. 920. 524-6 see ce tele sie rok A Brower 
THE MIGRATION oF NoRTH AMERICAN SPARROWS. Fifth Paper. Illustrated by 
EO UIA RU SSES Fier IES ac pone oa. y saat: eed Seas ee gate W. W. Cooke.. 
NoTres ON THE PLUMAGE OF NoRTH AMERICAN SPARROWS. Fourth Paper ..-.--. 
Frank M. Chapman.. 
‘ NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY ...........-....---2---2-- +2222 eee eee eee 
A TRAIT OF THE ENGLISH SPARROW, Edwin W. Humphreys; REPLACING A FALLEN 
Swirt’s NEst, Illustrated, L. P. Emerson; Curtos 1n Nests, L.S. Keyser; SOME 
Rare Ducks WiIntERING NEAR Boston, Illustrated, W. Charlesworth Levey; 
Eariy APPEARANCE OF GULLS ON COBALT LAKE, OnT., Arthur A. Cole; GREAT 
Crests NESTING IN A Box, Egbert T. Bush; PurpLe Martins INCREASING, 
Ferdinand Schreiman; NotrEs ON SWAINSON’S Hawk, John McB. Robertson; 
LATE STAY OF THE EVENING GROSBEAK, R. R. Seeber; Tor Least FLYCATCHER, 
Illustrated, J. M. Schreck; Tue Cat Question, Emily G. Hunt; THE DESTRUC- 
TIVENESS OF Cats, Mrs. Oscar Oldberg; A Humminepirrp Guest, Mrs. M. L. 
Stephenson; TUFTED TITMOUSE IN NORTHERN NEw JERSEY, Isabel McC. Lemmon; 
A Late Pine Siskin, L. Henry Potter; Do BirpS WatER THEIR YOUNG? 
Illustrated, Mrs. S. Louise Patteson. 
BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS. ............-.-.--2.-2 2-222-222-2202 e eee eee ee 
THAYER’S CONCEALING COLORATION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM; BEEBES’ ‘OUR 
SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS’; TOWNSEND’s ‘A LABRADOR SPRING’; MAcOoUN’S 
CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN Birps; THe New A. O. U. CueEcx Lists; PALMER ON 
GaME PRESERVES; McATEE ON PLANTS ATTRACTIVE TO Brirps; THE 
ORNITHOLOGICAL MAGAZINES. 
EDITORIAL (57-2) o cpio: S aibicesa alerscicen oe dein oh lee altar ttan a ates io) estoy si se eae eae ene eee 
AUDUBON SOCIETIES—SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS. ....................---.----- 
EpirorraL, M. O. W.; THe Mary M. Emery Birp Reserve, H. M. Benedict. 
EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 45. Tur Brack-neapep Grospeak. Illustrated with 
Colored Plate by Allen Brooks ..............-.. ..---.---.----W. L, Finley. = 
AUDUBON SOCIETIES—EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT ..................-....-..-..- 
Tue Girt oF Mrs. RussELL SAGE; FirtaH INTERNATIONAL ORNITHOLOGICAL CoNn- 
GRESS; SomME REASONS WHy INTERNATIONAL BirRD Protection Is NECESSARY; 
Tue Mary DutcHeR MrmoriaL FunD; Birp LEGISLATION IN ENGLAND; NOTES 
FROM WARDENS; DESTROYING Carts. 
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