irli lore 



March - April, 1912 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — White-throated, White-crowned and Black-chinned Sparrows 



Louis A gassiz Fuertes . . 



The Duck Hawk on the Palisades. Illustrated William Cogswell Clarke . . 8i 



The Barred Owl at Rhinebecx. Illustrated by the author. .Maunsell S. Crosby . . 87 



A Bluebird Study L. Claude . . 91 



An Early Migrant. Illustrated Guy A . Bailey . . 95 



The Orizaba Group IN the American Museum of Natural History. Illustrated. . 97 

 The Migration of North American Sparrows. Fifteenth Paper. Illustrated 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke . . 98 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Fourteenth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 105 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council 107 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 109 



Prothonotary Warbler in Connecticut in November, Wilbur F. Smith; A 

 Winter Oriole, Lottie Alvord Lacey; A Second Winter Oriole, G. Henry 

 Mengel; A Winter TowHEE,F;'a«/fe E. Woodward; A November Black-throated 

 Blue Warbler, Isabel D. Martin; Winter Robins, M. L. Hulse, R. F. 

 Haulenbeek, W. H.Wisman, V.A.Debes; The Starling in New Jersey, Walter 

 Fox Allen; Starlings in Princeton, N. J., A. F. Hagar; The Starling in 

 Illinois, Frank W. Aldrich; The Starling in Philadelhhia, Chas. Alison 

 Scully; The Starling in New Hampshire, Rest H . Metcalf; Bird-Notes from 

 South Norwalk, Conn., Wilbur F. Smith; Bird-Banding, Howard H. Cleaves, 

 Secy.-Treas. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 115 



Cooke's "The Migratory Movements of Birds in Relation to the Weather;" 

 A Michigan Biological Survey; Todd and Worthington on Bahaman Bird- 

 Life; Jacobs' American Bird-House Journal; The Ornithological Maga- 

 zines. 



EDITORIAL 117 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT n8 



Arbor and Bird Day in the Home: For Teachers and Pupils; Exercise. 

 II. Spring Travelers; Correlated Studies; Geography, Map-making and 

 Clay-modeling; From Young Observers; Wintering of the Robin in the 

 Northern United States; Our Winter Visitors; The Competitors in a 

 Bird-box Contest (illustrated) ; Our Winter Friends; A Winter Record from 

 Minnesota; Can the Starling Resist Cold as Well as the Robin? 

 EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET, NO. 55. The Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers. With 



colored plate by E. J. Sawyer Alice Hall Walter. . 126 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 131 



Robin Protection; Birds and the Recent Snowstorm (illustrated); Bird Famine 

 Relief Work; Feeding Birds (illustrated); White Egret Protection (illus- 

 trated); Subscribers to the Egret Protection Work; New Members; 

 Miscellaneous Notes. 

 ^*jfM anuscripts intended for publication, books, etc., for review and exchanges, should be 

 sent to the Editor, at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 8th Avenue, 

 New York City, N. Y. 



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