PUBLISHED BY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, New York


VOL. 1
No. 6
December, 189920 c. a Copy
$1 a Year

December, 1899


[CONTENTS]

Frontispiece—Golden Eagle Photographed from life by H. W. Nash.[176]
A Search for the Reedy Island Crow Roost.
Illustrated by W. Gordon Smith.
Witmer Stone[177]
Winter Bird Notes from Southern New Hampshire.
Illustrated by the author.
William Everett Cram[180]
How the Central Park Chickadees Were Tamed.A. A Crolius[185]
The Surprising Contents of a Birch Stub.
Illustrated by the author.
Frank M. Chapman[187]
Richardson's Owl. Illustrated by the author.P. R. Peabody[190]
[FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS]
An 'Advisory Council'.[192]
"Humanizing" the Birds.Caroline G. Soule[193]
'On the Ethics of Caging Birds.'Olive Thorne Miller[194]
[FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS]
The Birds' Christmas Tree. Illustrated.[195]
The Little Brown Creeper. Verse. Illustrated.[196]
[NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY][197]
An Interesting Phœbe's Nest, illustrated, Ellen E. Webster; A Singing Blue Jay, Frank E. Horack; A Useful Nest-Holder, illustrated; To Hunt Southern Birds; Seventeenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union.
[BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS][199]
Newton's 'Dictionary;' Mrs Wright's 'Wabeno;' Cory's 'Birds of Eastern North America;' Book News.
[EDITORIALS][201]
BIRD-LORE FOR 1900[202]
AUDUBON DEPARTMENT
Editorial: Reports from Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin Societies; The Passing of the Tern, illustrated.