Mvt^ - lore 



November- December, 1922 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Baltimore Oriole L. A. Fuertes. . 



The Trailer-Blind de Luxe. Illustrated Guy A. Bailey. . 323 



The Brown-headed Nuthatch Frank Forrest Gander. . 328 



A Prince of the House of Eagles Mrs. W. A . Craker. . 331 



Valley Quail and Road-Runners Ernest McGaJfey. . 335 



Bird-Lore's Twenty-Third Christmas Bird Census 338 



The Migration of North American Birds. XX. Baltimore Oriole. 



Harry C. Oberholser . . 339 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Sixty-fifth Paper. Frank M. Chapman. . 341 



A Drumming Grouse. Photograph J. H. McDonald. . 342 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 343 



Birds from a Breakfast Table, Emily Morrison White; Cardinal and Catbird, Earl 

 Brooks; An Exceptional Music Lesson, Flora A. Hodge; An Acorn Hoard, Grant 

 Foreman; A Trip to Florida with a Stormy Petrel, Elva Lotigee; Seven Years of 

 the Starling, Edgar Bedell; Notes on the Red Crossbill and Rose-breasted Gros- 

 beak, Anna E. MacLoghlin; Evening Grosbeaks in 1921-22, Mrs. Frank Bates; A 

 Stray Flock of Martins, Ralph Beebe; A Mockingbird in the Bronx, John and Richard 

 Kuerzi. "* 



THE SEASON. XXXIV. August 15 to October 15, 1922 348 



Annual Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union 358 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 360 



Bent's 'Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies, 

 Order Ti^inares and Order Steganopodes'; Bannerman's 'The Canary Islands, 

 Their History and Scenery'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 362 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 363 



Bird Walks, A. A. Allen; For Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 374 



Eighteenth Annual Meeting; Scranton Bird Club; Gourds for Bird-Houses; New 

 Members. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON 



SOCIETIES FOR 1922 381 



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 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, yyth St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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