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VOL. XVIII
No. 2
MARCH-APRIL, 191620c. a Copy
$1 a Year

Edited by
FRANK M. CHAPMAN
Published for the Audubon Societies
BY

HARRISBURG, PA. NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY FRANK M. CHAPMANR. Weber.

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March-April, 1916

CONTENTS

GENERAL ARTICLESPage
[Frontispiece in Color]—Bush-Tits, Verdin, and Wren-TitLouis Agassiz Fuertes
[ The World’s Record for Density of Bird Population.] Illustrated by the author Gilbert H. Grosvenor77
[ The Robin in Yosemite.] Verse Garrett Newkirk84
[ The Spring Migration of 1915 at Raleigh, N. C.]S. C. Bruner and C. S. Brimley85
[ First Efforts at Bird Photography.] Illustrated by the author H. Tra Hartshorn88
[ Long-eared Owl on Nest.] Illustration H. and E. Pittman91
[ The Interesting Barn Owl.] Illustrated by the author Joseph W. Lippincott92
[ Photographs of Flickers] Arthur A. Allen96
[ The Migration of North American Birds.] Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke97
[Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds.] Thirty-seventh Paper Frank M. Chapman
NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY100

[A Correction]; [Hints for Bird Clubs], W. M. Buswell; [Ornithological Possibilities of a Bit of Swamp Land], Arthur P. Stubbs; [My Neighbor’s Sparrow Trap], Charles R. Keyes; [A Tropical Migration Tragedy]; [A Shower of Birds], R. L. Tripp; [A Heron’s Involuntary Bath], John R. Tooker; [Winter Notes From Carlisle, Ind.], J. H. Gilliland; [Notes from Nebraska], Howard Paret; [A Gannet Over the Hudson River], J. T. Nichols; [Petrels on the Hudson], F. M. Chapman; [Starling in Ohio], Sheridan T. Wood; [Evening Grosbeaks and Cardinals in Southern Wisconsin], Ethel A. Nott; [Evening Grosbeaks at Port Henry, N. Y.], Dora B. Harris; [Evening Grosbeak at Glen Falls, N. Y.], E. Eveleen Hathaway; [Evening Grosbeaks at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.], Jacolyn Manning, M. D.; [The Evening Grosbeak at Boston], E. G. and R. E. Robbins; [Evening Grosbeaks at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.], George W. Gray; [Evening Grosbeaks in Lexington, Mass.], Winsor M. Tyler, M. D.; [Evening Grosbeaks in Vermont], L. H. Potter; [Evening Grosbeaks in Connecticut], Mary Hazen Arnold; [Martin Problems], May S. Danner; [A Bold Winter Wren], Edward J. F. Marx.

[BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS]110
[Grinnell’s Distributional List of California Birds]; [Taverner On The Food Habits Of Cormorants]; [The Ornithological Magazines].
[EDITORIAL]112
[THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES—SCHOOL DEPARTMENT]113
[Bird and Arbor Day—An Awakening], A. H. W.; [Junior Audubon Work]; [Ways of Keeping up Interest in Bird Study]; [For and From Adult and Young Observers], [Red-wing Blackbird]. Ills.
[EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 85.] Chestnut-sided Warbler. With colored plate by Bruce Horsfall T. Gilbert Pearson128
[AUDUBON SOCIETIES—EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT]132
[A Case in Point]; [A Feeding-Shelf; Photographing Water-Fowl]; [Birds and the Cold Spell]; [Florence Merriam Bailey]; [New Members and Contributors]; [The Virginia Game Bill]; [Notes From the Field].

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BIRD-LORE, HARRISBURG, PA.