VOLUME IV. 



NUMBER 9. 



Tl2e 

 Osppcy. 



Frontispiece. 



The Home of the Birds and Bird Lover in May 130 



Original and Selected articles. 



Birds of the Road.— V. By Paul Bartsch 131 



Notes on the Habits of the Blue Jay in JIaine. By J. 



Merton Swain i34 



William Swaiii.son and his Times.— III. By Theodore Gill.. 135 

 The Chickadee (Parus atricapillus) in Eastern Nebraska. 



By M. A. Carriker 



Remarks on some of the Birds of the Cape of Good Hope. 



By Philip Lutley Sclater i39 



COMMENTS. 



Birdsof Africa Hi 



The Love of Nature i4i 



Literature. 



The Birds of South Africa. A Key of the Birds of Aus- ^i 



tralia and Tasmania. Notes on the Birds observed dur- jj 



ini; Three Visits to Kamchatka 142 



Notes. 



An Ornithological Trip to Porto Rico. A Trip to Cuba. 

 E.^gs of the California Condor. A New Rgg of the 

 Great Auk. An Attempt to Re-introduce the Great 

 Bustard into England. Feathers of the Moa. A New- 

 Bird of Paradise. The Volbrecht Prize for Scientific 

 Research. The Penguin in Captivity. The Death of 

 Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards. The Death of the Duke 

 of Argvle '+'^ 



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