CONTENTS. 



VOL. XIII, NO. 2, FEBRUARY, 1888. 



TheCrow's Winter Roost at St. Louis Otto Widmann 17 



Nesting Habits of tlie Broad-winged Hawlc .J. W. Prkston lit 



Nesting of the Browu-lieaded Nuthatch in South Carolina Arthur T. Wavxe 21 



Nesting of the Black-billed Magpie Frederick M. Dillk 23 



Birds and Their Relation to Agriculture .7. A. Sisoley 24 



Data Blanks A. M. Ingersoll ani> W. E. Bryant 23 



Ueer Hunters' Assistants Walter Hoxie .' 27 



Notes on some Minnesota Winter Birds Geo. G. Cantwkll 27 



The Rough-winged Swallow W. E. Saunders 2S 



Queer Actions of a Song Sparrow C. C. Maxfield 29 



Notes on the California Condor Clark P. Streatok 30 



A Few Days' Outing Elwin A. Capen 30 



The Shrike and his Prey S. W. Denton 31 



Sale of an Egg of the Great Auk in London 31 



Naphthaline • 31 



Albino Winter Wrens C. S. Brimley 32 



Correspondence : Do Birds change their Habits? Harry R. Taylor 32 



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