irli - lore 



September-October, 1922 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color, (i) Reddish Egret, Blue Phase; (2) Reddish Egret, 

 White Phase; (3) Little Bi,ue Heron, plumage during first two years; (4) Little 

 Blue Heron, changing from white to blue adult plumage; (5) Little Blue Heron, 

 Adult; (6) Snowy Egret. 



Stories erom Birdcraft Sanctuary. II. The Rights and Wrongs of Bird-Trapping. 



Mabel Osgood Wright. . 253 



A ViREO AS Hostess. Illustrated Ernest Harold Baynes. . 256 



Koo. Illustrated Florence Merriam Bailey. . 260 



The a. M. S. Robins. Illustrated 0. C. Wood. . 266 



The Mating Antics of the Pacific Nighthawk. Illustrated Mabel A. Stanford. . 269 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 272 



A Plea for the Ruffed Grouse, /. E. H. Kelso; Birds near Chicago, Lillian Cramp; 

 Evening Grosbeaks in Illinois, Ada Lilly; A Cooperative Chickadee Nest, F. Boyles; 

 A Prank of the Downy, Josephine Hart Woolston; A Snow-Bath, /. M. Norton; A Trip 

 to Gull Island, G. E. Van Loon; A Night Flight in Iowa, W. M. Rosen; A Window Ex- 

 hibit, Sarah J. Day; Birds of an Acre, Mabel R. Wiggins; The Birds OF AN Elm, Mary 

 S. Andrews; Goshawk Nesting in Massachusetts, J.A.Farley. 



THE SEASON. XXXIII. June 15 to August 15, 1922 279 



Winsor M. Tyler; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; S. Charles Kendeigh; 

 Thomas S. Roberts; Colin Campbell Sanborn; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold; IraN. Gabriel- 

 son; Amelia S. Allen; Frances B. Schneider. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 291 



The Ornithological Magazines 



EDITORIAL 293 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 294 



The Home -Life of Birds — ^The Young Birds, Their Growth and Care, A. A. Allen; 

 From Young Observers. 



BULLETIN NO. 5. 



Herons of the United States. Illustrated T. Gilbert Pearson. . 306 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 31S 



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