CONTENTS. 



VOL. XVI., NO. 9, SEPTEMBER, 1891 



Hiizzardf*' Knost ■ 



liirilsanrt Their Value 



Birds of Poweshiek County, Iowa . 



TIic Wood Duck 



Ruddy Duck lireedinp; at Cape Cod 



N'esting of Some of the White mountain Dirds- 



SliunlvS 



Some Notes on the Western Winter Wren . 

 Lost in a Mangrove Swarap .... 



Curious "Sets of Eggs" 



Kcsting of the Winter Wren .... 

 Notes from Middletown, Conn. 

 Turkey Buzzard Breeding in Michigan 



Slaughter of Sparrows 



Attention, Oologists ! 



The First Record of McCown's Longspur Breed 



Advertising Rates 



Brief Notes 



Correspondence 



Frank W. Sheldon 

 Clyde L. Keller 

 Carl Kelsey . 

 F. C rearson 

 Frederic L. Suiall 

 ,T. W. Nash 

 A. E. Kibbe . 

 Wm. L. Kells . 

 Robert Curzon 

 ('. W. Crandall 

 Wm. Kells 

 C. E. Lincoln 

 Stewart E. White 



.lames 1!. I'urdy 

 A. D. Brown . 



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The Book for Ornithologists. 



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