CONTENTS. 



A Preliminary List of the Summer Birds of Fall River County, 



Southwestern South Dakota. Stephen Sargent Visher 1 



A Study of the Avifauna of the Lake Erie Islands. Lynds Jones 6 

 Moments with LeConte's Sparrows. Althea R. Sherman 18 



Observations of Bird-Life in Northern New Jersey During- the 



Winter of 1910-1911. Louis S. Kohler 21 



Why Are the Birds so Named? Katie M. Roads 27 



Some Bird Notes from New York City. George E. Hix 33 



Alleged Breeding Occurrence of the LeConte Sparrow in Illinois. 



P. B. Peabody 36 

 A Winter Invasion of Jasper County, Iowa. J. L. Sloanaker 39 



Our Winter Pensioners. Mary E. Hatch 42 



A Michigan Record for the Gannet. N. A. Wood 43 



Status of the European Starling, Essex County, New Jersey. 



Louis S. Kohler 44 

 Editorial 47 



General Notes — 49 



Florida caerules again taken in Ohio; Bob-white (Colinus coli- 

 nus virginianus) ; Robin (Planesticus migratorius migrator- 

 ius) ; Bird Notes from Summit, New Jersey; Egrets at Huron, 

 Ohio ; Notes from Huron, Ohio ; The Evening Grosbeak at 

 Cambridge, Ohio ; Platforms to Bird-Houses. Correspondence 54 

 Publications Reviewed 56 



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