VOLUME IV. 



JULY AND AUGUST, 1900. 



NUMBER II AND 12 



Osppcy. 



Frontispiece. 



Nest and Younsf of Orch;ud Oriole (Icterus s]nirius) i6i 



Original Articles. 



Birds of the Road.— VII. By Paul Bartscli 163 



William Swainson and his Times. — VI. By Theodore Gill... 166 



Comments. 



The .\ffiiiities of Hesperornis 172 



Letters. 



Notes of a Collecting; Trip in Northwest Nebraska. Cassin 

 on Baird's First Paper 173 



Notes. 



Protection and Importation of Birds. An International 

 Agreement for the Protection of Game Animals. A Pro- 

 position of the Millinery Merchants' Protective Associa- 

 tion of America. The Largest Bird Cage ever Built. A 

 New Species of Petrel and A New Gull. Tiie Greatest 

 Price for a Great Auk's Egg. Fearlessness of Swallows. 

 .\ Rusty Grackle (Scolecophagus carolinus) killed near 

 Cardiff, Wales. Vocal Imitation by the Blackbird. Col- 

 onization of Crows in Washington, D. C. The New Bird 

 of Paradise. A .Monument to Professor Spencer F. Baird.. 173 



LlTER.\TURE. 



Bird Studies with a Camera. The Game Birds and Wild 

 Fowl of the British Islands. The Wilson Bulletin. No. 

 31 175 



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