liirli^lore 



March - April, 1904 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece — Wii-son's Warbler; Canadian Warbler . . . Louis Agassiz Fuciles . 



A Summer With i he Bluebirds. Illustrated by the author C. F. Hodge . 41 



A Massachusktts Duck Hawk Aery Gerald H. Thayer . 47 



Virginia Rail on Nest. Illustrated . E. G. Tabor . 53 



The Whip-poor-will. Illustrated by the author Rett E Olmstead . 54 



A Nesting Crow. Illustration G. E. McCobn . 56 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The RIigration of Warblers. Third Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuerles and 



Bruce Horsfall IV. W Cooke 57 



Brown Thrasher. Illustration R. H. Beebe . 60 



The Warbler Book Frank M Chapman . 61 



Bird Lists of Massachusetts Audubon Society 63 



Books For Sale or Exchange 63 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 



Birds of February and March Vincent E. Gorman . 64 



The Prize Competition 65 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 66 



A Plea for Bird Boxes, Josiah Clark; An Unusual Nest of the Cliff Swallow, Henry 

 Hales; A Winter Mocking-bird, Mrs. Carroll E. Bow en ; A Large Phcebe's Nest, 

 Elizabeth Grinnell; A Swallow and Flycatcher Y&jXi. Florence Merriatn Bailey . 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 69 



Dawson's ' Birds of Ohio ' ; Mrs. Miller's 'With the Birds in Maine' ; ' Cassinia ' ; Mrs. 

 Wheelock's "Birds of California'; The Ornithological Magazines, Book News. 



EDITORIAL 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT . 



Editorial; National Committee Notes. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 8. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes . William Dntcher 



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

 sent to the Editor at Englewood, New Jersey. 



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