Bird=Lon for Christmas. 
No present conld be more appropriate for a friend who is interested in birds, or a 
friend whom it may be desired to interest in birds, than Bird-Eote for the coming 
year. As the first number of the new volume will not be issued until February i, ig02, 
we have prepared as a Bird-Lore Christmas Card, a full-page plate of the Cruikshank 
portrait of Audubon. On the receipt of the subscription price to Bird-Lore {$1.00), and 
the name and address of the person to whom it is wished to have the magazine sent, 
this card will be projierly filled out and, with a free copy of Bird-Lore for December, 
will be mailed in time to be received on Christmas Day. 
Or the subscri])tion may be sent and we will forward the magazine and the Christ- 
mas Card in blank, to be filled in and mailed by the donor. 
JJfeS^'For this occasion we will make a reduction in the subscription price of Bird- 
Lore, and offer five subscriptions for the sum of $4.00. 
Orders for these Christmas Cards shoidd he sent at an early date, in order to ensure 
their delivery in due season. 
Bird=Lon for 1902. 
Kknest Seton-Thojii’.son, who ha.s written an illustrated article on 
“The Recognition Marks on Birds,” for December I^ird-Lore, will write, in 
1902, on “How to Keep a Journal;” William Brewster will describe the 
bird voices of New England swamps and marshes: F. A. IvUcas will write, 
with numerous illustrations, of “The Weapons of Birds;” I). G. Elliot and 
Capt. C. A. Curtis, lb S. A., will contribute Recollections of Elliott Coues; 
and Frank M. Chapman wilt pre.sent a series of six fully illustrated papers 
on the families of Passerine birds. There will also be a series of articles 
on “Bird Clubs in America,” and other important illustrated papers by 
Richard Kearton, Dr. J. Dwight Jr., Dr. T. S. Roberts, A. Radclyffe Dug- 
more and others. 
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 
Mulberry and Crescent Sts., Harrisburg, Pa. 
