Bird-Lore for February will be a Bird-House Number. It will also contain the results 

 of the Christmas Bird Census and two Colored Warbler plates 



Mx'O-lLoxt 



November -December, 1904 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispikte — Hrrmtt AND Townsend's Warblers Louis Agassiz Fun ies . 



How TO Study a Bird . Ernest Thomfisoti Selon . i8r 



A Lksson' ... . . Elizabeth Dana . 1S4 



Some Familiar Florida Bird.s. Illustrated by the author Mrs F. VV Roe . 1R5 



Bird-Life of a Swiss City . . .... Rev Wendell Prime . iqi 



Downy Woodpecker. Illustration ... A L. Princehom 192 



Young Flaminc;os Illustrated by the authur .... Frank M Chapman 193 



FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 



The Migration of Warblers. SeYenth Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fueries and 



Bruce Horsfall ... VV. W. Cooke 199 



Magnolia and Kirtland's Warblers. Full-page in color Bruce Horsfall. Facing 199 



Report of the Circulating Collections Loaned by the American Ml'seum of Natu- 

 ral History 10 the Public Schools of New York City ... ioi 



Bird-Lore's Fifth Christmas Bird Census 202 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 204 



Balancinc; Robins, Ernest Seaman: The European Skylark near New York City, 

 Lsaac Bildersee : A Venturesome Titmouse, 5'. /?. Brodhead ; A Sensible Cardinal, 

 Elmore Elliott Peake ; Taming a Robin Elmore Elliott Peake. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 206 



Jacobs' 'Haunts of the Goldrn-wtnged Warbler'; Cooke's 'New Facts About the 

 Migration of Birds'; 'The Birds of Nebraska';' 'Catalogue of British Columbia 

 Birds'; The Ornithological Magazines; Audubon Calendar. 



EDITORIAL 209 



BIRD-LORE FOR 1905 . 210 



AUDUBON DEPARTMENT . . 211 



Editorial; Repokts of District ok Columbia and California Societies illustrated). 



FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS 215 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 12. 



The Short-eared Owl. Illustrated by L^ouis Agassiz Fuertes William Dulcher . 217 



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

 sent to the Editor, at Englewood , New Jersey. 



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