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Notes from^North Dakota. By Eugene S. Rolfe 81 



Gambel's^Quail. By George F. Breninger 8+ 



The Scourg-e of Eg'g Collecting-. By Rev. W. F. Henninger. 85 



A Xest of the Blue-throated Hummingbird. By George F. Breninger 86 



Editoriai, Eyrie 87 



Letter Box. A Great Work Proposed. By Theodore Gill. 88 



A Fraud — Look out For HimI By Robert Ridgway 94 



PiGEOX Holes. Capture of a Specimen of Harlan's Hawk. By Charles K. Worthen 94 



In the Osprey'S Claws. Birds and all Nature — The Birds of Ontario in Relation to Agri- 

 culture — Bird Lore — Bird World 64 



MARCH, 1899. 



Original Articles. 



Gulls Flying against the Wing. Instantaneous Photograph Ay ^. Wyles. Frontispiece . 



Behind the Wedding Veil. By JuHa Stockton Robins , 97 



An Old Case of Skins audits Associations. By Witiner Stone 98 



Snap Shots with Pen and Camera. By Eugene S. Rolfe ..._. 99 



The Gourdheads in the Cypress Swamp of Missouri. By OttO Widmann . 101 



Odd Actions of Birds Unexplained. By IV. B. Davis 103 



Some of Our Winter Birds. By 31. A. Carriker,jr 104 



Young Cooper's Hawk. By Louis Agassiz Fuertes. [A Plate] _ 105 



Editorial Eyrie 106 



Letter Box. Looking- Down Chimney. [Illustrated] — Another Sample — A Lady's Indigna- 

 tion — A Conundrum — Buzzards as Scavengers — Nesting- of Hermit Warbler — The Art of 



Kicking Gently - - 107 



Pigeon Holes. Destruction of Birds by the Act of God — Red-headed Woodpecker Far 

 North in Winter — Immaculate Egg of Barn Swallow — A Useful Egg Knife — Rare 



Birds in Rhode Island — Birds Wintering in Rhode Island 100 



In the Osprey'S Cl.\ws. Bulletins 54 and 55 of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station — The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society — Birds of New Hamp- 

 shire — Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club — Brush, Sedge and Stubble — Forest 



and Stream — Sharpe's Hand List of Birds Ill 



APRIL, 1899. 

 Original Articles. 



Aptosochromatism in Chrysotis levaillanti. By Francis Joseph Birtwell. 113 



Charles Hallock. By Elliott Coues 117 



The Prairie Horned Lark. By Rev. P. B. Peabody 118 



Chickadee Habits. By C. H. Morrell 119 



The Passing of the Bluebird. By Chas. S. Reid. _ 121 



Nocturnal Migration. By O. G. Libby.... 121 



Editorial Eyrie 123 



Letter Box. A Protest Against Canon XL. By Merrill Gary 125 



Snowy Owl from Life. By Eugene S. Rolfe 125 



Pigeon Holes. Nest and Eggs of the Alder Flycatcher. By Elliott Coues 126 



In THE Osprey'S Claws. The University of Nebraska. By E. C 126 



Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club. By E. C 126 



Evolution of the Colors of North America Birds. By E. C 126 



MAY, 1899. 



Original Articles. 



Thurber's Junco. By Henry IV. Carriker I29 



Missouri River Duck Notes. By Isador S. Trostler. 131 



The American Golden-eye. By Floyd T. Coon 132 



The White-winged Scoter in North Dakota. By Edwin S. Bryant 132 



A Chapter on the Robin. By C. O. Ormsbee.... , 133 



Birds as Prognosticators. By H. H.Johnson 134 



The Tragedy of a Nest. By Clara C. Smith 135 



