2471038Volume 4 — No. 1


GENERAL ARTICLES PAGE
Frontispiece—A Crow Roost
C. D. Kellogg 2
Recollections of Elliott Coues. Illustrated
3
Coues as a Young Man
D. G. Elliot 3
Coues at His First Army Post
Capt. C. A. Curtis 5
Extract from the Journal of Elliott Coues
8
The Western Evening Grosbeak. Illustrated
Wm. Rogers Lord 9
A Crow Roost. Illustrated
C. D. Kellog 11
Bird Clues in America. 1. The Nuttall Club. Illustrated.
Frances H. Allen 12
A Winter Visitor Illustration.
Martha W. Brooks 17
TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Bird-Lore’s Advisory Council
18
How to Name the Birds. Illustrated. Second paper
Frank M. Chapman 20
What Bird is This? Illustration.
24
The Christmas Bird Census
24
FOR YOUNG OBSERVERS
The Prize Essay Contests
31
The Prize Crow Essay.
Fred T. Morison 31
NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY. Omitted to give space to the ‘Christmas Bird Census.’
BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 33
Ridgway’s ‘Birds of North and Middle America’; Proceedings of the Nebraska
Ornithologists’ Union; Kellogg’s ‘Elementary Zoölogy’; The Ornithological Magazines.
EDITORIAL 36
AUDUBON DEPARTMENT 37
Editorial: Report of the Pennsylvania Society. An Addition to the White List.
The Thayer Fund.