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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, New York
| VOL. 1 No. 6 | December, 1899 | 20 c. a Copy $1 a Year |
December, 1899
| 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. | ||