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CONTENTS. 



PaKe. 



Frontispiece 



dwight w. huntinton 

 . . . . Wilfred H. Ost;ooD 



The Hc.iiK- ot tlic Sage Grouse, froin the Oiininal FMintintj by H. F. Fanu-y 



The Sage Grouse 



El Dorado County Notes 



Ospiey Nest at Narragansett Bay. photograph by H. S. Hathaway 



A Peak in the Sierras, photograph by H. B. Kaeding 



Wintering of the Red-headed Woodpecker in Wisconsin Prof. Ludwig Klmi-ien 



The Taking of a California Condor's Egg R- P- Sharples 



Pied-billed Grebe, from 'Bird-Life' 



The Documents in the Bendire Business 



Editorial Notes. 



Recent Literature • ■ ••• .'V '■; J, 



General Notes :— A Quail's Egg in a Towhee's Nest. A Colony of Ospreys. Regarding the Brunnichs Murre. From 



Egg Island 



California Department :-Some Late Nesting Records. Summer News from St.inford 



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Cooper Ornithological Club. 



California Items 26-27 



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