VOLUME IV. 



DECEMBER, 1899. 



NUMBER 4. 



GONTGNTS. 



Origixai, .\xd SeIvEcted Articles. 



Notes from Northern Counties of California. 



By Milton S. Rav 49 



The Largest Bird that Flies. By J. E. Hart- 



ing" " 52 



Daniel Webster Prentiss. By the Editor. . ... 5<) 



Comments. 



The Seventeenth Congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union. The Largest 

 Birds. Endurance of the Turkey. Utili- 

 zation of Zoological Gardens 57 



1\,ETTERS. 



Rare Birds in Rhode Island. Third Inter- 

 national Oi^nithological Congress. On the 

 Food of the Crow Blackbird. The Ceru- 

 lean Warbler not an Unusual Visitor to 

 Western and Central New York. Bii'd 

 Arrivals at Dawson 5'1 



Notes. 



Birds in Winter. New York's Winter Birds. 

 Rice Birds in South Carolina. The Turkey 

 Buzzard's Flight. A Man Killed by a 

 Wounded Loon. Brunnich's Murre. A 

 Ornithological Club 62 



Literature. 



Birds of Eastern North America. A First 

 Book in Organic Evolution. A List of 

 Birds Collected on the Island of New 

 Providence, Bahamas. Memoirs of the 

 Bishop Museum of Honolulu. Field Notes 

 on Birds Collected in the Philippine 

 Islands. An Illustrated Manual of British 

 Birds. The House Sparrow (The Avian 

 Rat). A Supplementary Volume of the 

 Catalogue of Birds 64 



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