iBtrti lore 



March -April, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Fox Sparrows Louis Agassiz Fuertes . . 



A Vanished Race. Illustrated by J. G. Hubbard Moritz Fischer . . 77 



The Passenger Pigeon. Early Historical Records, 1534-1860. Illustrated 



by J. G. Hubbard Albert Hazen Wright. . 85 



Recollections of the Passenger Pigeon in Captivity. Illustrated by /. G. 



Hubbard Wallace Craig . . 93 



The Last Passenger Pigeon. Illustrated by /. G. Hubbard. ....£. H. Forbush. . 99 

 The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-first Paper. Illustrated 



by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke . . 104 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twentieth Paper 



Frank M. Chapman . . 108 



Screech Owl Illustration Sheridan F. Wood . . 109 



Bird-Lore's Advisory Council no 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 112 



Bird-House Tenants, Wells W. Cooke; A Narrow Escape, Tertius van Dyke; 

 Another November Black-Throated Blue Warbler, George P. Ells; 

 Additional Notes on Montana Bobolinks, Nelson Lundwall; A Meadow- 

 lark's Unusual Nest-site, Robert L. Denig; Bluebirds in Dorchester 

 County, Md., During 1912, Ralph W. Jackson; The Starling in Massa- 

 chusetts, Harold W. Copeland. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 115 



Bickerton's 'The Home-Life of the Terns or Sea Swallows;' 'Report on 

 the Immigration of Summer Residents;' The Ornithological Magazines. 

 Common Tern and Nest. Illustration W. Bickerton. . 116 



EDITORIAL 118 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 119 



Methods and Practice; Methods of Work in North Dakota; Junior Audubon 

 Work; From Young Observers. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLETS 



No. 64. The Emperor Goose. With colored plate by Allan Brooks. E. W. Nelson. . 129 



No. 65. The Crested Auklet. With colored plate by Allan Brooks 



Charles Has kins Townsend. . 133 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 137 



President Dutcher; Weeks-McLean Law; Niobrara Bird Reservation; Notes 

 on the Elk Situation; Prohibit Feather Importations; Egret Protection; 



New Members; New Contributors; General Notes. 



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