VOLUME V. 



SEPTEMBER, 1901. 



NUMBER 9. 



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Frontispiece. 



The Starting 



Point at i >igg - House.. 



Original andIiSelected Articles. 



Song Birds of the Kissimmee Valley, Florida. By 



William Palmer Washington D C 



A Visit to Otter Rook. Pacific Ocean. "Among the 



Sea Birds". By A. G. Prill, M. D., Scio, Oregon 

 Notes on the Blue Grosbeak. Guiraca coerulea. By 



W. Daniel. Jr., Lynchburg. Va 



William Swainson and his Times.— X. By Theodore 



Gill, Washington. D. C 



Cage-Birds of Calcutta- -II. By P. Finn. Deputy Su- 



perin tendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta 

 The Osprey or Fishhawk: its Characteristics and 



Habits.— VIII. By Theodore Gill, Washington, D. C . 



Cl IMMENTS. 



Work and Worry for the Classicists 



(Postponed.) 



Osppcy. 



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. 



Literature. 



(Postponed.) 



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