PAGE. 



Notes. 



The Albatross and its Absence of Fear. — Osprey Notes. — ACuriosity 127 



SEPTEMBER, 1901, 



Frontispiece. 



The Starting- Point at Drigg's House 130 



Original and Selected Articles. 



Some Birds of the Kissitnmee Valley, Florida. By William Palmer 131 



A Visit to Otter Rock, Pacific Ocean. "Among- the Sea Birds". By A. G. Prill, M. D 133 



Notes on the Blue Grosbeak, Guiraca coerulea. By W. Daniel, Jr., Lynchburg, Va 13S 



William Swainson and his Times. — X. By Theodore Gill 136 



Cage-Birdsof Calcutta. II. ByF. Finn, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta. 138 

 The Osprey or Fishhawk: its Characteristics and Habits. — VIII. By Theodore Gill 141 



Comments. 



Work and Worry for the Classicists - - 142 



Notes. 



Another Instance of the Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) carrying its Young. — A 

 Few Notes from Missouri. — Attempted Introduction of Capercailzie. — The Death of 

 Francis Joseph Birtwell. - - 143 



OCTOBER, 1901 



Frontispiece. 



Looking across the Kissimmee River. - 146 



Original and Selected Articles. 



Some Birds of the Kissimmee Valley, Florida. — II. By William Palmer 147 



Cage-Birds of Calcutta. — III By F. Finn, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum 150 



William Swainson and his Times. — XI. By Theodore Gill 152 



Comments. 



The Vice of Excessive Generalization. 156 



Notes. 



A Settlement of Wild Geese in Bronx Park, N. Y. — On the Longevity of Gulls. — An Out- 

 witted Kingbird. — A delaying Kingfisher 157 



Letters. 



Fowl Hybrids and Vanishing Birds. — Blue Bird Nesting in Bank-hole 159 



NOVEMBER AND DECEM BER, 1901. 



Frontispiece. 



Nest of Bald Eagle 162 



Original and Selected Articles. 



Some Birds of the Kissimmee Valley, Florida. — III. By William Palmer 163 



Cleaning the Feathers of Birds without Absorbent. By Geo. B. Turner, Chief Taxider- 

 mist, U. S. Nat. Museum 166 



William Swainson and his Times— XII. By Theodore Gill 167 



Comments. 



The Nineteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union 173 



Letters. 



Note on the Nomenclature of Bermuda Birds 174 



Literature. 



Stories of Bird Life 175 



