JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1901. 



PAGE. 



Frontispiece. 



The Dismal Swamp 33-34 



( iKH.iNAi. Articles. 



A Trip to the Dismal Swamp. By Paul Bartsch 35 



Nesting" of the Inca Dove in Ramos, State of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. By Josiah H. Clark, 



Paterson, N. J 37 



William Swainson and His Times.— VII. By Theodore Gill 37 



The Osprey or Fishhawk; its Characteristics and Habits. — II. By Theodore Gill 40 



Comments. 



New Ornithological Magazines • 43 



Superfluity of Ornithological Magazines 43 



Notes. 



London's Bird Trade 44 



Price of Curious Animals in the World's Big Market 44 



Relative Strength of Eagle 45 



Some Animals Exterminated during the Nineteenth Century 45 



The Death of Charles C. Marble. 45 



The Death of Dr. John Anderson 45 



Literature. 



A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States 46 



Nature's Calendar. By Earnest Ingersoll 46 



The Woodpeckers. By Fannie Hardy Eckstorm 47 



Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 47 



Coues' "Key to North American Birds" .. .. ... 48 



Biographical Notices of Emile Blanchard and the Milne Edwards 48 



MARCH AND APRIL, 1901. 



Frontispiece. 



The Dismal Swamp 49-50 



Original Ariticles. 



Photographing the Caprimulgidae. By Herbert K. Job 51 



A Trip to the Dismal Swamp. — II. By Paul Bartsch 55 



Warden's List of the Birds of the District of Columbia. By William Palmer 57 



William Swainson and His Times.— VIII. By Theodore Gill 58 



The Osprey or Fishhawk; its Characteristics and Habits. — III. By Theodore Gill 60 



Comments. 



Recent Mortality among Ornithologists 62 



Letters. 



A Rat Eaten by a Great Blue Heron.— Curious Habit of a Cormorant and Removal of Stone 

 from Stomach.— Price of Audubon's Birds of America and Ornithological Biography.— 

 Quaritch's Prices for the "Auk" and "Ibis."— Large Price for Audubons's Princeps 

 Octavo Edition 63 



Notes. 



The Death of Baron Edmond de Selys Longchamps.— The Death of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub. 

 The Death of George A. Boardman.— The Death of John A. Clifford Brown 63 



MAY, 1901 



Frontispiece. 



The Dismal Swamp 65-66 



Original Articles. 



A Trip to the Dismal Swamp.— III. By Paul Bartsch 67 



A Canoe Trip up the Juan River, Mexico, in Search of Birds. By Percy Shufeldt 69 



My Story of the Sharp-Shinned Hawk. By P. M. Silloway, Lewistown, Mont. 70 



William Swainson and His Times. — IX. By Theodore Gill 71 



The Osprey or Fishhawk; its Characteristics and Habits.— IV. By Theodore Gill 73 



