. Bird lore . rue handbook size andbrought fully up-to-date. In addition to possessing all the features which madethe old Handbook at once popular and authoritative,the new Handbook contains an Introduction of overlOO pages on How to Study the Birds in Nature,which will be of the utmost value to all students of liv-ing birds. The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting,color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and alliedproblems are here treated in a manner designed to arouseinterest and stimulate and direct original observation. A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to a
. Bird lore . rue handbook size andbrought fully up-to-date. In addition to possessing all the features which madethe old Handbook at once popular and authoritative,the new Handbook contains an Introduction of overlOO pages on How to Study the Birds in Nature,which will be of the utmost value to all students of liv-ing birds. The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting,color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and alliedproblems are here treated in a manner designed to arouseinterest and stimulate and direct original observation. A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all theleading works and papers (including faunal lists) on theBirds of Eastern North America, shows just what hasbeen published on the birds of a given region, a matterof the first importance to the local student. ^61 Pages. Cloth. $ net. Flexible Norocco, $ net D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers 29-35 West 32d Street, New York SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1912 20c. a CopySI a Yoar ^-^■ TT?^; ™7v:;;2 )f. COPYffrOMT. iai2, BY FRANK M. CHAPMAM IBirli lore September - October, 1912 CONTENTS GENERAL ARTICLES page Frontispiece in color—Towhee, Arctic Towhee. .Louis Agassiz Fuertes Phcebe vs. Catbird; A Study in Adaptability. Illustrated by the author A. A. Allen. 269 Florida Bob-whites. Illustration George Shiras, 274 The Story of Peter. Illustrated by G. A. Bailey Fanny Hardy Eckstorm. 275 Report of an Expedition to Laysan Island in 1911. Illustrated 279 Two Problems in Identification. Illustrated 284 The Migration of North American Sparrows. Eighteenth Paper. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes W. W. Cooke . 287 Notes on the Plumage of North .\merican Sparrows. Seventeenth Paper Frank M. Chapman. 290 NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 291 Long Island Notes, Isabel McC. Lemmon; A Talented Song Sparrow, GeorgeA. Dennison; Bluebirds vs. Wrens, Mrs. M. M. Waring; A Tragedy Nar-rowly Averted, E. D. Naunian; A Yellow Warblers Nest, E. J. Luther;Nesting of the Carolina Wren, Mary Gile
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