iSirt - lore 



January-February, 1919 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. White-necked and American Raven. .Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



When the North Wind Blows. Illustrated Arthur A. Allen. . i 



Our Responsibility. A Page from the Bird's Book oe Snow. .Mabel Osgood Wright. . 6 



Notes from a Traveler in the Tropics. II. Cuba to Panama. Illustrated 



Frank M. Chaprnan. . ii 



An Evening with Birds in Florida J.W. Lippincott. . i6 



The Great Horned Owl. Illustrated F.N. Whitman. . i8 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 21 



The Migration of North American Birds. VIII. Ravens 23 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Fifty-second Paper 



Frank M. Chapman. . 24 

 BIRD-LORE'S NINETEENTH CHRISTMAS CENSUS 25 



THE SEASON. XL October 15 to December 15, 1918 50 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 55 



Miller's 'In the Wilds of South America'; MacMillan's 'Four Years in the White 

 North'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 57 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 58 



Letter from California; A Year of Reconstruction, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon 

 Work, A. H. W.; For and From Adult and Young Observers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 72 



Slaughter of American Eagles; Two Reports from Teachers of Junior Audubon 

 Classes; Aigrette Violations; Olive Thorne Miller; P'orbush's Monthly Bul- 

 letin of Information; A Christmas Card; Ruffed Grouse in West Virginia; 

 Roy C. Andrews (111.); Blackbirds and Meadow Larks in California; New 

 Sustaining Members; Law for Migratory Birds Safe; Bird-House Contest; 

 Notes from Washington, D. C. 



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