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Bird -Lore 



This institution is ideal and unique. In 

 it one may study a series of Great Auks' 

 skeletons or a group of Chipping Sparrows. 

 In other words, it is equipped both for the 

 specialist and the opera-glass students, 

 and through the generosity of its founder, 

 who is also its Curator, both are given 

 abundant opportunity to examine its 

 treasures. 



There are many museums in this coim- 

 try to a greater or less extent dependent 

 on the support of patrons of the arts and 

 sciences; but, so far as we are aware, the 

 Thayer Museum stands alone as an insti- 

 tution open to the public, in which but 

 one individual has supplied the funds for 

 the building and its collections and, at 

 the same time, is its responsible and active 

 scientific director. 



PROGRAM 



Notes from Northern Labrador, by 

 A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass. Some Lab- 

 rador Notes, by Charles W. Townsend, 

 Boston, Mass. Notes on the Migrations 

 and Habits of some Long Island Shore 

 Birds (illustrated by lantern-slides), by 

 Francis Harper, College Point, N. Y., and 

 John Treadwell Nichols, New York City. 

 On the Present Status of the Bobolink, or 

 Rice-bird, in the South (illustrated by 

 lantern-slides), by Edward Howe Forbush, 

 Westboro, Mass. Queer Nesting-sites of 

 the House Wren (illustrated by lantern- 

 slides), by Wilbur F. Smith, South Nor- 

 walk, Conn. A New Sub-species of Crossbill 

 from Newfoundland (illustrated with 

 specimens), by A. C. Bent, Taunton, 

 Mass. The Nest Life of the Sparrow 

 Hawk, by Althea R. Sherman, National, 

 Iowa. 



Informal Notes on the Work of the Field 

 Museum in South America, by W. H. 

 Osgood. Further Observations on Colom- 

 bian Bird Life (illustrated by lantern- 

 slides), by Frank M. Chapman, New 

 York City. Propagation and Restoration 

 of American Wild-fowl (illustrated by 

 lantern-slides), by Herbert K. Job, East 

 Haven, Conn. Notes on the Present 

 Breeding of White Egrets in the United 



States (illustrated by lantern-slides), by 

 T. Gilbert Pearson, New York City. 



Passenger Pigeon: Report of the Year's 

 Work, by C. F. Hodge, Worcester, Mass. 

 Problem of Domesticating the Ruby- 

 throated Hummingbird, by Katherine E. 

 Dolbear, Worcester, Mass. Notes on the 

 Panama Thrush- Warbler, by Hubert 

 Lyman Clark, Cambridge, Mass. Report 

 of Progress on the 'Life Histories of North 

 American Birds,' by A. C. Bent, Taunton, 

 Mass. The Value of Bird-Study in a 

 Limited Area, by Alice Hall Walter, 

 Providence, R. I. Some Notes from 

 Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach, 

 New York City, by George E. Hix, New 

 York City. Concealing Action of the 

 Bittern, by Walter B. Barrows, East 

 Lansing, Mich. 



What the American Bird -Banding 

 Association Has Accomplished the Past 

 Year (illustrated by lantern-slides), by 

 Howard H. Cleaves, New Brighton, N. Y. 

 A Biological Reconnaisance of the Oke- 

 fenoke Swamp: The Birds (illustrated by 

 lantern-slides), by Albert H. Wright, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., and Francis Harper, 

 College Point, N. Y. The Red-winged 

 Blackbird: A Study in the Ecology of a 

 Cattail Marsh (illustrated by lantern- 

 slides), by Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The Flight of Birds, by Alexander 

 Forbes, Milton, Mass. The A. O. U. 

 Check-List (third edition), by Louis B. 

 Bishop, New Haven, Conn. A Glimpse 

 at the Home-Life of Larus marinus (illus- 

 trated by lantern-slides), by Howard H. 

 Cleaves, New Brighton, N. Y. The Present 

 Status of the Heath Hen (illustrated by 

 lantern-slides and specimens), by George 

 W. Field, Boston, Mass. Two Flycatchers 

 of the Genus Empidonax New to the 

 Fauna of South Carolina, by Arthur T. 

 Wayne, Mt. Pleasant, S. C. Eighteen 

 Species of Birds New to the Pribilof 

 Islands, Including Four New to North 

 America, by Barton W. Evermann, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. A Study of the House 

 Finch, by W. H. Bergtold, Denver, Col. 

 The Status of the Extinct Meleagridce, by 

 R. W. Shufeldt, Washington, D. C. 



