New, Revised Edition of the HANDBOOK OF BIRDS of Eastern North America By FRANK M. CHAPMAN Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History With Plates in Colors and Black and White, by LOUIS The text of the preceding edition has been thoroughly revised and much of it rewritten. The nomenclature and ranges of the latest edition of the "Check-List" of the American Ornithologists' Union have been_adopted. Migration records from Oberlin, Ohio, Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Southeastern Minnesota, numerous nesting dates for every species, and many biographical references have been added; the descriptions of plumage emended to represent the great increase in our knowledge of this branch of ornithology; and, in short, the work has been enlarged to the limit imposed by true handbook size and brought fully up-to-date. In addition to possessing all the features which made the old "Handbook" at once popular and authoritative, the new "Handbook" contains an Introduction of over 100 pages on "How to Study the Birds in Nature," which will be of the utmost value to all students of living birds. The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting, color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and allied problems are here treated in a manner designed to arouse interest and stimulate and direct original observation. A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all the leading works and papers (including faunal lists) on the Birds of Eastern North America, shows just what has been published on the birds of a given region, a matter of the first importance to the local student. 561 Pages. Cloth, $3.50 net. Flexible Morocco, $4.00 net D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers 29-35 West 32d Street, New York J. HORACE MCFARLAND COMPANY, MT. PLEASANT PRESS, HARRISBURG, Pa. A New, Revised Edition of the Color Key to · North American Birds By FRANK M. CHAPMAN This work with its concise descriptions of specific characters, range and notes, and colored figure of each species, may be well described as an illustrated dictionary of North American birds. The introductory chapter and Systematic Table of North American Birds have been reset and brought up to date, and two appendices have been added. The first contains descriptions of species, which have been published since the first edition of the Color Key appeared. The second is a Faunal Bibliography containing references to all the more important faunal papers on North American birds. The titles are so arranged that one can readily tell what are the principal publications relating to the birds of any given region. The book therefore makes an admirable introduction to the study of birds and the literature of ornithology, and at the same time is an authoritative work of reference. 344 Pages. Cloth, $2.50 net. Postage 22 cents D. APPLETON & CO. 29-35 West 32d Street NEW YORK March-April, 1914 CONTENTS GENERAL ARTICLES FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR-HOUSE FINCHES.. PAGE 85 93 96 Louis Agassiz Fuertes.. Illustrated....Guy A. Bailey.. Mrs. Eliza F. Miller.. Third Paper. ORIOLES, FLYLouis Agassiz Fuertes.. Laura F. Beall.. 101 SOME WAYS OF THE OREGON TOWHEE. Illustrated. Mrs. Stephen E. Thayer.. 102 THE MIGRATION OF NORTH AMERICAN SPARROWS. Twenty-seventh Paper. Illustrated. Wells W. Cooke.. 105 NOTES ON THE PLUMAGE OF NORTH AMERICAN SPARROWS. Twenty-sixth Paper Frank M. Chapman.. 107 BIRD-LORE'S ADVISORY COUNCIL NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY. BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS.. BRYANT'S 'A DETERMINATION OF THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE WESTERN MEADOWLARK (Sturnella neglecta) IN CALIFORNIA;' SWARTH'S 'A STUDY OF A COLLECTION OF GEESE OF THE Branta canadensis GROUP FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA;' BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE No. 58; FIVE IMPORTANT WILD DUCK FOODS, By W. L. McAtee; CUMING'S 'THE BODLEY HEAD NATURAL HISTORY;' REICHENOW'S 'DIE VÖGEL HANDBUCH DER SYSTEMATISCHEN ORNITHOLOGIE; COMSTOCK'S 'BIRD NOTE BOOK;' ORNITHOLOGICAL MAGAZINES. A COOPERATIVE STUDY OF BIRD MIGRATION EDITORIAL...... AUDUBON SOCIETIES-SCHOOL DEPARTMENT BIRD AND ARBOR DAY; FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS; FROM ADULT AND YOUNG OBSERVERS. EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET No. 73. THE WHIP-POOR-WILL. Bruce Horsfall AUDUBON SOCIETIES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 108 ΓΙΟ 120 123 124 126 With colored Plate by MR. DUTCHER HONORED; FEEDING THE BIRDS; Two INTERESTING CASES; MR. C. E. BREWSTER AND CAPTURED "BIG GUN" (Illus.); SCAFFOLD FOR EXECUTING LIVE DUCKS IN VIRGINIA (Illus.); ALBERT WILLCOX, BENEFACTOR; MR. ALBERT WILLCOX (Illus.); FLORENCE A. HOWE: AN APPRECIATION; A THANK OFFERING TO GULLS; MR. 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