IBtrli lore 



September - October, 1913 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece in Color — Harris's and Golden-crowned Sparrows 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



With Asio in the Greenwood. Illustrated by H. W. Nash 



Florence Merriam Bailey.. 285 



With Apologies to Mr. Kipling. Verse Contributed . . 290 



The Sharp-tailed Grouse in Manitoba. Illustrated John Woodcock.. 291 



Notes on a Pair of Holbcell's Grebes. Illustrated Maunsell S. Crosby.. 293 



A Bird Photographer, Photograph Guy A . Bailey . . 295 



An Opportunity Interrupted. Illustrated. ........ Arthur A. Allen. . 296 



A Pair of Co wbirds. Photograph Guy A. Bailey . . 300 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Twenty-fourth Paper. Illus- 

 trated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke. . 301 



Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows. Twenty-third Paper. 



Frank M. Chapman.. 304 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 305 



Birds that Nest at Tamakoche (Ills.), Frank C. Pellett; A Study of Mocking- 

 birds, Ida Finklea and Anna L. Morris; A Swallow Incident, Caroline Gray 

 Soule; Evening Grosbeak at Fairfield, Me., Harriet Abbott; Evening Gros- 

 beak in Ontario, Robert B. Chilton; Two Interesting Bird Records from 

 Clarendon Co., S. C, Edward S. Dingle; The Building of a Robin's Nest, 

 Berners B. Kelly; Nocturnal Songsters, John Dryden Kuser; The Song Pe- 

 riod of the Brown Thrasher, Ansel B. Miller. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 312 



Faxon on Brewster's Warbler; Bailey's 'Birds of Virginia;' Natural History 

 of 'The Toronto Region;' The Ornithological Magazines. 



EDITORIAL 315 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 316 



A Summary of Practical Suggestions; What the Birds do in Autumn; A. H. W; 

 Friendly Birds (Ills.) H. Browning Logan; A Pet Road-Runner, George 

 Miksch Sutton. 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLETS 



No. 70. The Catbird. Illustrated with a colored plate by Bruce Horsjall. 



Witmer Stone . . 327 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 331 



Notice to Members; The Feather Proviso, T. G. P. England to Prohibit the 

 Importation of Bird Plumage; Cornfield Devastated by Grasshoppers 

 (Ills.); New Members; New Contributors; Contributors to the Egret 

 Fund; Committee on Bird-Houses, Ardonia, N. Y. (Ills.); Junior Audubon 

 Work, T. G. P.; Egret Hunters Punished. 



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