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VOL. XVIII       MARCH-APRIL, 1916       20c. a Copy

No. 2                                    $1 a Year


Bird-Lore


    [Illustration (birdhouse in field)]


EDITED BY

FRANK M. CHAPMAN


PUBLISHED FOR THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES

BY

D. Appleton & Company


HARRISBURG, PA.                 NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN _R. Weber_.




Bird-Lore

March-April, 1916

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CONTENTS


  =GENERAL ARTICLES=                                                  Page
    Frontispiece in Color--Bush-Tits, Verdin, and Wren-Tit
                                              _Louis Agassiz Fuertes_
    The World's Record for Density of Bird Population. Illustrated
      by the author                            _Gilbert H. Grosvenor_   77
    The Robin in Yosemite. Verse                    _Garrett Newkirk_   84
    The Spring Migration of 1915 at Raleigh, N. C.
                                     _S. C. Bruner and C. S. Brimley_   85
    First Efforts at Bird Photography. Illustrated by the author
                                                   _H. Tra Hartshorn_   88
    Long-eared Owl on Nest. Illustration          _H. and E. Pittman_   91
    The Interesting Barn Owl. Illustrated by the author
                                               _Joseph W. Lippincott_   92
    Photographs of Flickers                         _Arthur A. Allen_   96
    The Migration of North American Birds. Illustrated by
      Louis Agassiz Fuertes                             _W. W. Cooke_   97
    Notes on the Plumage of North American Birds. Thirty-seventh
      Paper                                        _Frank M. Chapman_

  =NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY=                                         100
    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 
      plate by Bruce Horsfall                    _T. Gilbert Pearson_  128

  =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;