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GENERAL ARTICLES
Jiirli * lore
May -June, 1916
CONTENTS
Frontispiece in Color—Sage Thrasher, Mockingbird, Catbird, Thrasher.
Louis A gassiz Fuertes . .
The Chipping Sparrow. Illustrated by the author Newton Miller. .
Veery Brooding. Photograph Arthur A. Allen. .
Two Marsh Wrens. Photographs Francis Harper and Arthur A. Allen. .
Pete: The Story of an Adopted Robin .W. E. Munson. .
The Hermit Thrush. Verse Ernest Howard Crosby . .
A Domestic Tragedy. Illustrated by A. A. Allen Julia Moesel . .
Crow About to Feed Young. Photograph Guy A. Bailey. .
Snapping the Back-yard Birds. Illustrated by the author .. PawZ H. Z>ow/i«g . .
Some Experiences in Attracting Birds—The Nesting of a Red-breasted
Nuthatch. Illustrated Henry S. Shaw, Jr. . .
Mourning Dove. Photograph Elton Perry . .
Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Thirty-eighth Paper. .
Frank M. Chapman. .
NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY
Notes from Phillipston, Mass., Mrs. Myra Dunn; Winter Notes from
Southern Connecticut, Wilbur F. Smith; A Nest Census, Samuel G.
Meigs; Spotted Sandpipers, Alice Sage Allyn; Occurrence of Starlings in
Dorchester County, Md., Ralph W. Jackson; Can the Starling Rule
Bird-land? Joseph W. Lippincott; A Singing Blue Jay, R. E. Robbins; Notes
ON Warblers, W. J. Cartwright; Bohemian Waxwings in Southern Wisconsin,
Ethel Allis Nott; Do Cliff Swallows Ever Build on Painted
Barns? Manley B. Townsend; An Unusually Colored Chickadee, C. F.
Stone; Nesting-habits of the Tufted Titmouse, Freda L. Hood; A Winter
Ruby-crown, Ida L. Reveley; Robins at Home, Drury L. Fish; Evening
Grosbeak in Northern New England, Manley B. Townsend; Evening
Grosbeak in Maine, Carrie Ella Miller; Evening Grosbeak in New
Brunswick, Helen V. Burnett; Evening Grosbeak in Vermont, Mabel A.
Shields; Evening Grosbeak at Exeter, N. H., George H. Selleck; Evening
Grosbeak at Meriden, N. H., W. M. Buswell; The Evening Grosbeak
AT Williamstown, Mass., W. J. Cartwright; Evening Grosbeak
at Ashland, N. H., John B. May; Evening Grosbeak at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., George W. Gray; Evening Grosbeak in Rhode Island, Harry B.
Agard; The Evening Grosbeak at Clinton, N. Y., John Thompson;
Evening Grosbeak at Newburyport, Mass., Marion H. Bayley; Evening
Grosbeak in New York City and Utica, N. Y., Lee S. Crandall; The
Evening Grosbeak in Greater New York City, Waldron DeWitt Miller.
Photographs of Pheasants Arthur A. Allen. .
BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS
Finley's 'Little Bird Blue;' Roberts' 'The Winter Bird-Life of Minnesota;'
Egerton-Warburton's 'In a Cheshire Garden;' Wetmore's
'Birds of Porto Rico;' Prueser's 'Our Dooryard Friends;' The Ornithological
Magazines.
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EDITORIAL
THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES—SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Taking a Robin Census, A. H. W.; Junior Audubon Work; For and From
Adult and Young Observers.
EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 86. The Redstart. Illustration. . T. Gilbert Pearson..
AUDUBON SOCIETIES—EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Honor to William Dutcher; A General Index to Bird-Lore; Control of
Cats in Montclair; Omaha's Cemetery-Sanctuaries; Some Prize Photographs;
New Members and Contributors; Contributors to Egret
Fund; A Request; Notes from Many Fields.
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