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November-December, 1919 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color. Canada Jay, Oregon Jay, Pinon Jay, Clarke's Nutcracker 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes. . 



Notes from a Traveler in the Tropics. V. Chile Illustrated 



Frank M. Chapman. . 333 



How Birds Can Take Their Own Pictures. Illustrated Dr. E. Bade. . 342 



One Family of Flickers Anna Rogers Roberts. . 347 



Bird-Lore's Twentieth Christmas Bird Census John T. Nichols. . 350 



A Winter Feeding-Place for Birds. Illustrated Verdi Burtch. . 351 



The Migration of North American Birds. XL Canada Jay, Oregon Jay, Clarke's 



Nutcracker, and Pinon Jay Harry C. Oherholser. . 354 



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



Frank M. Chapman. . 356 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 357 



Notes from Conway, Mass., Florence Mabel Pease; U-Boat Methods in Natldre, H. J. 

 LaDue; A Surprised Ruddy Duck, Harry C. Oherholser; From Near the Arctic 

 Circle, Mrs. G. W. Gasser; American Egret in Connecticut, Bessie L. Crane; 

 Harris's Sparrow at Lawrence, Kans., Charles E. Johnson; Nuthatch Acrobats, 

 Geo. M. Marckres; The Scarcity of Golden-crowned Kinglets, Francis H. Allen; 

 A Brood of Young Robins, Olga Marie Morgan; An Unusual Nesting-Site, Albert 

 E. Loivnes. 



THE SEASON. XVI. August 15 to October 15, 1919 364 



Winsor M. Tyler, M.D.; J. T. Nichols; Julian K. Potter; Harry C. Oherholser; Thomas S. 

 Roberts; Harry Harris; W. H. Bergtold. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 371 



Bent's 'Life Histories of North American Diving Birds'; Coker's 'Habits and 

 Economic Relations of the Guano Birds of Peru'; Roberts's 'Water Birds 

 of Minnesota, Past and Present;' Saunders's 'Golden Dicky, The Story of a 

 Canary and His Friends'; Pearson and Brimley's 'Birds of North Carolina'; 

 Chapman's 'Our Winter Birds, How to Know and How to Attract Them'; Far- 

 well's 'Bird Observations near Chicago'; The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 378 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 379 



Christmas with the Birds, A. A. A.; My First Experience with a Redstart, Frances 

 Redfield Hallinan; A Rare Pet, Mary Camara; A Pet Robin, Gabrielle LePerrier; 

 October in Chicago, Elizabeth P. Bowers. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 392 



Annual Meeting; Two Boys, a Gun and a Knife. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON 



SOCIETIES FOR 1919 395 



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