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Danievt Giravup Evtior. By Frank M. Chapman. (PlateI.) . F F ; af 
Tur ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER AS A FALL AND WINTER VISITANT IN THE 
Reaion or Boston, Massacuuserts.. By Horace W. Wright ‘ ‘ : Bi 
Birps OF THE CHILLIWACK District, B.C. By Major Allan Brooks . 5 5 28 
Tue Birps or CuLeBRA ISLAND, Porto Rico. By Alexander Wetmore - s 51 
Novres on A Few or THE RAareR Birds oF SAUK AND DANE CounrTIES, WISCONSIN. 
By H. L. Stoddard - . : : ; : “ = P : 3 5 63 
Description oF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF THE WESTERN MeapowiarkK. By S. F. 
Rathbun , ¢ : ~ ‘ ; - S y 3 68 
DeEscriPTION OF Telespiza ultima FROM NiHoa Istanp. By William Alanson 
Bryan . - : 5 e z A - . a é : Haw tes 70 
Description oF 4 New SussPecigs oF THE Broap-wincep Hawk. By B. H. 
Bailey. - - . - . Nt Gs . ae kar * 7 73 
TuHrrRTy-FOURTH STATED MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION. 
By John Hall Sage . 3 ; 3 : 2 = 4 S F 76 
GENERAL Notes.— The Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) on Lake Michigan, 86; Relation- 
ship of Florida Herons, 86; A New Record for New England, 86; Destruction of 
Passenger Pigeons in Arkansas, 87; American Goshawks in Kansas, 87; Arctic Three- 
toed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 88; The Earliest Name 
for the Nighthawk, 88; A New Name for Onychospiza Prjwalski, 89; The Migrant 
Shrike near Boston, 89; Philadelphia Vireo (Vireosylva philadelphica) in Massachu- 
setts in Autumn, 89; Wilson’s Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla pusilla) in Massachusetts 
in December, 89; A Remarkable Case of Bird Feeding, 90; A Mockingbird in New 
Hampshire, 91; Acadian Chickadee at Rhinebeck, N. Y., 91; The Acadian Chicka- 
dee on Long Island, 91; Alaska Hermit Thrush in Northeastern Illinois, 92; Winter 
Birds at Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, 92; Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes 
Bearer peenereang) at Cinnaminson, N. J., 93; Clarence Henry Morrell —.A Cor- 
rection, 93. 3 
Recent Lirerature.— Index to ‘The Ibis’ 1895-1912, 94; Noble on the Resident Birds 
of Guadeloupe, 94; Cherrie on the Ornithology of the Orinoco Region, 95; Recent. 
Papers by Rothschild and Hartert, 95; Mearns on Pardaliparus elegans, 96; Cooke’s 
‘Second Annual Report of Bird Counts in the United States,’ 97; Pearl and Curtis on 
Dwarf Eggs, 97; Shufeldt’s ‘Osteology of Palzornis, with other Notes on the Genus,’ 
97; Shufeldt on Fossil. Birds, 98; Peters on a New Swift from Santo Domingo, 98; 
Riley on New Birds from Santo Domingo, 98; Townsend on Bird Conservation in 
Labrador, 99; Gyldenstolpe on the Birds of:Siam, 99; Gr6énvold’s Illustrations of the 
Birds of South America, 100; Bryant on Food of the Roadrunner in California, 100; 
British Board of Agriculture Reports on the Food of the Rook, Starling, and Chaf- 
finch, 101; Food of a Collection of South Australian Birds, 101; Recent Publications 
on Bird Conservation, 101; The Ornithological Journals, 102; Ornithological Articles 
in Other Journals, 105; Publications Received, 106. 
CorresponpENcr.— Habits of the Great Crested Grebe, 110. 
Norses anp News.— Obituaries: Prof. F. E. L. Beal, 112; Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, 113; 
Lt. Col. Edward A. Butler, 114; Prof. A. J. Cook, 114; Prof. Donaldson Bodine, 
115; Timothy O. Fuller, 115; Prof. L. L. Dyche, 116; Miss Mary B. Ferry, 116; 
= Jane L. Hine, 117; Changes in the Biological Survey, 117; Popular Bird Study, 
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