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BIRD LORE IS A JOURNAL FOR STUDENTS OF BIRDS IN NATURE. 

 AMOimG THE CONTENTS OF VOLUME V, 1903, WILL BE 

 The First (1872) Edition of Coues' 'Key ' by its publisher. Prof. F. W. Put- 

 nam, with a facsimile reproduction of a page of proof, containing many char- 

 acteristic annotations by Dr. Coues. 



The Mound-Building Birds of Australia with photographs from Nature by 

 A. J. Campbell of Melbourne. 



The Songs of our Cuckoos, by William Brewster; The Moult of Birds, by 

 Dr. J. Dwight, Jr.; How to Study Birds, by Prank M. Chapman; Bird Migra- 

 tion in the Dry Tortugas', by Dr. Joseph Thompson, U. S. N., and numero 

 us shorter articles. 



Bird Lore' Acivisorv Council 



With its nearly fifty members scattered throughout the United States and 

 Canada, will, as heretofore, be ready to give advice and information to all 

 bird students who apply for it. The hundreds of Bird-Lore readers who have 

 called on the Council fcr help will be glad to know that during the year we 

 propose to publish the portraits of its members, making, in fact, an album of 

 prominent American ornithologists. 



Bird Bore s Bird C.t>arb 



Figures sixty-two representative species of our eighteen families of Perching 

 Birds. From Crow, to Kinglet all these figures are photographed to the same 

 scale, and one may therefore instructively compare, at a glance, characteristic 

 members of all our families of Perching Birds. Under each family group is 

 given the number of species it contains and its more important structural feat- 

 ures. We are sure that this Chart will prove of great value to teachers as well 

 as to students of our birds, and we propose to Present A Bird Chart to every 

 Subscriber to Volume V of Bird-Lore, beginning with Number 1, February, 

 1903. 



Ar>r)ual Subscription, 0r>e Dollar 



Until February 1, 1903, new Subscribers to BIRD LORE will receive, in 

 addition to the Bird Chart, a free copy of the December, 1902, number con- 

 taining Ernest Thompson Seton's article on "Journal Keeping" and Frank 

 M. Chapman's account of Flamingoes' nests, with a photograph of a 

 group of 2000 nests. 



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