ISirli - lore 



May- June, 1919 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES ^age 



Frontispiece in Color — Blue Jay, Steller's Jay, and Green Jay 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



The Warblers of Central New York. Illustrated A. A. Allen. . 149 



Notes FROM A Traveler in THE Tropics. IV. Peru. l\\viStx3XeA..Frank M. Chapman. . 157 



Purple Finches Mrs. Herman F. Straw. . 165 



Two Thrushes. Illustrated .Thomas A. Taper. . 167 



The Migration of North American Birds. X. Blue Jay, Steller's Jay, and 



Green Jay Harry C. Oberholser. . 170 



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



Frank M. Chapman. . 172 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY i73 



Unusual Breeding-Site of Killdeer Plover, G. K. Noble; Notes on Nesting Blue- 

 birds and House Wrens, Kathleen M. Hempel; A Parakeet in a City Park, Tertius 

 van Dyke; Helping Barn and Cliff Swallows to Nest, William Goodsell; Dixie, a 

 Tame Robin, Margaret Pratt; To Hatch and to Raise, M. C. Otto; An Eccentric 

 Ovenbird, Theo. Spencer; The Cape May Warbler in Southern Maine, Sara Chandler 

 Eastman; Another Wire Wren Nest, Albert Moyer; Prairie Horned Lark, A. J. 

 Dadisvian; Pelagic Habits of Kittiwake Gulls in Winter, Lawrence L. Lofstrom; 

 A Good Word for the Blue Jays, Grace L. White; Yellow-throated Warbler in 

 Central Park, Laidlaw Williams. 



THE SEASON. XIII. February 15 to April 15, 1919 182 



Glover M. Allen; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oberholser; Lynds Jones; Thos. 

 S. Roberts; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 188 



Grinnell, Bryant and Storer's 'Game Birds of California'; Harris' 'Birds of the 

 Kansas City Region'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 191 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 192 



The Museum Bird Club of Toledo, Ohio; Robin Redbreast, War Gardener; The 

 Black and White Warbler; Finding Birds' Nests; Eave Swallows Nesting on a 

 Painted Building; A List of Virginia Birds; The White-crowned Sparrow. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 98. Least Bittern. With Colored Plate by Bruce 



Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson. . 198 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 202 



A Nation-wide Effort to Destroy Crows; The Eagle Law of Alaska; Game -Law 

 Enforcement; Suggested Bird Programs; Contents of Italian Hunter's Game- 

 Bag; Mrs. Marshall Active; Pittsburgh's Bird-House Contest; Florida Audubon 

 Bulletin; The Roosevelt Memorial Fountain; Toledo's Bird Day; St. Peters- 

 burg's Bird-House Contest; Convention of Indiana Audubon Society. 



*n,* Manuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be sent 

 to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th St. and 8th Ave., New York City. 



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