Americarv Ornithology. 



A Metga-zine Devoted Wholly to Birds. 



Published monthly by Chas. K. Reed, 75 Thomas St., Worcester, Mass, 

 EDITED BY CHESTER. A. REED, B. S. 



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COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY CHAS. K. REED 



VOL. Ill MAY. 1903. NO. 5. 



May is here ; the banner bird month of the whole year. Let each of 

 our readers who are physically able, take outings these pleasant morn- 

 ings, and then write his or her experiences to American Ornithology 

 so that those unfortunates who are unable to enjoy your advantages, 

 may at least share your pleasures by reading your stories. 



ARE WE R.IGHT? 



Now a word in regard to American Ornithology. We fully ex- 

 pect to double our circulation in the next two rnonths and we ask you to 

 co-opeiate with us in this work. The total number of persons who are 

 interested in birds is enormous, but only a few of these reside in each 

 city and town, and we have no means of bringing our magazine to the 

 attention of the greater part of them. We believe that each one of our 

 readers has friends or knows of persons who are interested, and we 

 also believe that each of our readers is sufficiently interested in this 

 magazine to bring it to the attention of these friends. Are we right? 

 We are willing to meet you half way, and to reward you for a kind 

 word in our behalf, we have secured a large number of one of the 

 most popular games published. We give one of these Bird games free, 

 together with the picture "Preparing Breakfast," to each one of our 

 subscribers who will secure for us a new subscriber. Our volume, this 

 year, will contain about 500 pages, and anyone can get a great deal 

 more than one dollar's worth of value from it. Besides we give each 

 new subscriber the remarkable photograph "The Chippy Family." 



