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Editorials. 



A Nesting: Place of the Great Blue 



Heron, 44 



An Expensive Hobby, - - - 84 

 Announcement, - - - - 36 

 Bird Delineation, - - - 28-29 

 Birds and Insects, - - - 20-21 

 Corrections Called P^'or, - - - 84 

 Cowbird. — MoJothrus ater. - - 76 



Death of Greene Smith, - - 44 



Elaborate Nidification, - - 36-37 

 Eggs Badly Inculcated, - - - 60 

 Exchange Price List, - - - 84 

 Fulica Americana, - - - 22 



Food and Structure of Rooks, - 61 

 Hints on Studying Birds, - - 4 

 How th(! Chimney Sivallows did Con- 

 gregate, ----- 6 

 Increase of Some Species in Certain 



Localities, . . - - 5 

 Killing Rapatia, - - - - 76 

 Mountain Ash, - - - - 60 

 Notes on Sitta canadensis, - : '•"' 

 Notes on the Habits of the Large-bill- 

 ed Water Thrush, - . ' . 53 

 On the Habits of the Magnolia Warb- 

 ler, - - - : - - 22 

 Oological Ambition, - - - 52 

 Ornithological Facts, Fallacies, and 



Fancies, - - - - - 68 

 Ornithological Phenomena, - - 12 

 Professional Oologists, (J. M. W.) 62-63 



Rhynchops nigra in the Bay of 

 Fundy, 13 



Studies on Certain Fringillidae. — The 

 Savannah Sparrow, 



Editorial Notes, 23, 29, 30, 31, 69, 77 



General Items. 

 8, 15, 24, 32, 37, 45, 46, 56, 64, 72, sO, 



87, 88. 



Recent Publications. 



Birds of the Colorado Valley, - 40 

 Diary of a Bird, - - - - 40 

 Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of 



the Birds of Ohio, - - - 56 

 Nest and Eggs of American Birds- 32 

 Nests and Eggs of Birds of the Mid- 

 dle Statues, - - - - 40 

 Nuttall Bulletin, . - - - 56 

 On the Present Status of Passer 



domesticus in America, - - 32 

 Science Observer, - - - 75 



Science Advocate, - - - lO 



The Journal of Science, - - 16 



The Literature of Dr. Elliott Cones, 32 

 The Ornithologisches Centralblatt, 40 

 The Deutsche Aclimatisation, - 40 

 The Naturalist, - - - - 40 



Illustrations. 



Nest and Eggs of Chimney Swift. 



" " " Yellow-breasted C'hat 



