VOLUME V. 



NUMBER 5. 



An Illustrated 

 monthly magazine 

 ki°f Ornithology, 



GONTGNTS. 



Osprey. 



Frontispiece. 



The Dismal Swamp 65-iiii 



Original Articles. 



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



Washington. D. (.' 117 



A 1 anoe Trip up the San Juan River. Mexico in Search 



of Birds. By Percy Shufeldt, Washington, D. C 69 



My Story of the Shai p-Shinned Hawk. By P. M. Sillo- 



way, Lewistown, Mont 70 



William Swainson and His Times— IX. Bv Theodore 



GUI, Washington, D. C 1 71 



The Osprey or Fishhawk: its Characteristics and 



Habits— IV. By Theodore Gill, Washington, D.C 73 



Comments. 



Names of Magazines 77 



Letters. (Postponed.) 



Notes. 



Mimicry among Birds.— A Collection of the Birds of 

 Ohio.— Birds at a Church Service.— The Birds of 

 North and Middle America.— A Collection of the Birds 

 of Michigan.— A Columbarium at Wood's Hon.— A 

 Live Dominica Parrot.— Death of Mr. Audubon 

 Wheelock Ridgway.... 78 



Literati-he. (Postponed.) 



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