iv Contents of Volume XXXIV. 
British Board of Agriculture Reports on the Food of the Rook, Starling, 
and Chaffinch, 101; Food of a Collection of South Australian Birds, 
101; Recent Publications on Bird Conservation, 101; The Ornitho- 
logical Journals, 102; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 105; 
Publications Received, 106. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Habits of the Great Crested Grebe, 110. 
NOTES AND 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. Donald- 
son Bodine, 115; Timothy O. Fuller, 115; Prof. L. L. Dyche, 116; 
Miss Mary B. Ferry, 116; Mrs. Jane L. Hine, 117; Changes in the 
Biological Survey, 117; Popular Bird Study, 117. _ 
NUMBER II. 
PaGE 
In MemoriAM: WELLS WoopprinGe Cooks. By 7. S. Palmer. 
(Plate II.) ; j ; : : 3 4 i 2 Lg 
In Avupupon’s Laprapor. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. 
(Plates III-V.) ; 133 
Tri PRESENT ABUNDANCE oF BIRDS IN THE VicrNtTy oF Fort Sr. 
MicuHakEL, ALASKA. By F. Seymour Hersey. 147 
Tue LABRADOR CHICKADEE (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) IN A 
SOUTHWARD Miacration. By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. . 160 
LABRADOR CHICKADER (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) IN BosToN 
AND VICINITY IN THE Fauu or 1916. By Horace W. Wright 164 
OrniTHOLOGY ATST. Marks. By J. A. Farley 5 171 
CriticaAL NOTES ON THE HASTERN SUBSPECIES OF Sitta carolinensis 
Latham. By Harry C. Oberholser . 181 
THE BREEDING OF THE BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER AT ‘Har- 
LEY, STANSTEAD County, QuEBEc, 1916. By H. Mousley 187 
Nores on Norto AMERICAN Birps, I. By Harry C. Oberholser . 191. 
A NrEw SuBSPECIES OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD FROM WESTERN 
CENTRAL AMERICA. By A. Brazier Howell : 196 
SECOND ANNUAL List oF PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE A. O. U. 
Cuecxk-List or NortH AMERICAN Brirps : 3 : »,' &98 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Type of the Large-billed Puffin, 205; The Possibility of Puffinus bermuda 
Nichols & Mowbray in the North Atlantic, 206; Sooty Tern in New 
Jersey 206; Coloration of Down in Adult Ducks, 206; Killdeer 
(Oxyechus vociferus vociferus) in Massachusetts, 207; Note on the 
Passenger Pigeon, 208; Feeding Habit of the Sparrow Hawk, 209; 
The Barn Owl (Aluco pratincola) in Western New York, 209; An 
Unrecorded Bird from the Bahamas, 209; Blue Jay in Jefferson Co., 
Colorado, 209; Note on the Bronzed Grackle in Maine, 210; A 
Bird new to the North American Fauna, 210; The Evening Grosbeak 
(Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina) in Southern New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania, 210; First Recorded Nesting of Bachman’s Sparrow 
in Pennsylvania, 212: Bohemian Waxwing at Seattle, Wash., 212; 
