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 l60 Bird - Lore

The Young Observers’ Contest

The prize for the best essay on the birds of June and July goes to Master Stewart Mackie Emery, of Morristown, Na J.

In preparing their essays on the birds of August and September. in corn- petition for the prizesoffered in August BlkbrLORE. we ask young observers to remember that those Contributions showing the greatest amount of original observation will stand the best chance of winning the award. What we desire is not general information on the bird-life of August and September, but we want to know what you have seen in the Woods, ﬁelds or marshes during these two months These essays should be sent in during the ﬁrst half of October

We now offer a ﬁfth prize of a book or books to the value of two dollars to the young observer of fourteen years or under who sends us the best sevenr or eight-hundred word article on the birds of October and November

What Bird is This?

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No'rE.—Each number of BIRD-Lotte will contain a photograph, from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, of some comparatively little-known bird, or bird in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding number of the magazine, it being believed that this method of arousing the student‘s curiosity will result in impressing the bird’s characters on his mind iar more strongly than if its name were given with the picture.

The species ﬁgured in August is the female Indigo Bunting, which in worn, breeding plumage shows almost no trace of blue and is then easily confused with certain Sparrowsl