INDEX 
tin, 38; the wood duck, 39; tit- 
mice, 36; woodpeckers, 37; wrens, 
36; provide, 33. 
Nesting material, 62. 
Nesting places, lack of, 6. 
Netting, wire; cut on the bias, 66; 
fence of, 65. 
Nistkasten fiir Vogel. Liebe, 40. 
Noted ornithologists ; islands, groves, 
parks, and woods commemorative 
of, 95. 
Nuthatches, nesting boxes for, 37. 
ce) 
Officers of the L. A. S., 134. 
Orchard Oriole (verse), 106. 
Oriole, Baltimore (verses), 119; or- 
chard (verse), 106. 
Ornithologists, noted ; islands, groves, 
parks, and woods commemorative 
of, 95. 
Our homes, attracting birds to them, 
19. 
Owl (verses), 117. 
Owls, 68; nesting boxes for, 38. 
P 
Parks, public, feeding birds in, 61. 
Parson and Buck. The Wild Flow- 
ers of California, 22. 
Places, nesting, lack of, 6; carrion, 
59; field, 58; waste, 30. 
Planting, time for, 20; tree, for 
birds, general suggestions on, 28. 
Planting of evergreens, 20. 
Plant, what to, 19. 
Plants, watering of, 20. 
Poison, use of, in farming and gar- 
dening, 9. 
Principles, purpose and, of the L. 
A.S., 182. 
Protecting birds against cats, 64-67. 
Protecting song birds, etc., 19. 
Protecting the birds from their nat- 
ural enemies, 64. 
Protection, game, from the nature 
lover’s point of view, 126. 
M 
161 
Provide nesting boxes, 33. 
Public parks, feeding birds in, 61. 
Purple martin, nesting boxes for, 38. 
Purpose and principles of the L. 
A.5S., 182. 
Q 
Quail (verse), 116. 
Question, the English sparrow, 72-79. 
R 
Recommendations regarding birds, 
Hornaday’s report, 123. 
Recommendations regarding mam- 
mals, Hornaday’s report, 139. 
Redbird, tanager and (verse), 116. 
Red Cedar, burning-bush and (fig- 
ure), 31. 
Red-headed woodpecker at St. Paul, 
4. 
Remarks, concluding, on nesting 
boxes, 40. 
Right, is it, to hunt and fish, 126. 
Robin (verses), 108. 
Rope coil, tarred, 66. 
Rose-breasted grosbeak (verse), 104. 
Rural schools and nature, 30. 
S 
Sam, Uncle, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 
107, 121; the birds before, 99. 
Schools, bird day in the, 98; rural, 
and nature, 30. 
Schutz den Vogeln. Kobelt, 40. 
Shelves, bracket; for swallows, 38. 
Shrubs, trees, and vines; furnishing 
them to birds, 19. 
Skunks, 68. 
Snowy heron (verses), 103. 
Societies, 145 ; humane, in the United 
States and Canada, directory of, 
147. 
Song birds, as food, 90; causes for 
the decrease of, 6. 
Source of stock, 20. 
Southern United States, Flora of 
the. Chapman, 22. 
