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North Dakota. By Gerard A. Abbott. 
Notes on Birds of Regions with Primitive Prairie Conditions. By 
T. L. Hankinson.— An Ecological Classification. 
The Terns of Weepecket Islands, Massachusetts. By A. R. Cahn. 
A Study of a White-breasted Nuthatch. By Winsor M. Tyler, M. D. 
November Bird-Life at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn. By A. F. Gainer.— Appar- 
ently the first paper on birds of this region since that of S. N. Rhoads 
(Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1895). 
The Whisper Songs of Birds. By J. J. Schafer.— Heard both in spring 
and autumn. 
The Wilson Bulletin. XXVIII, No. 2. June, 1916. 
The Yellow-billed Tropic-Bird. By Karl Plath.— In Bermuda. 
A Brewer Blackbird Roost in Redlands [Cal.]._ By Florence M. Bailey. 
The Goldfinch in Captivity. By J. Claire Wood. 
The Annals of Three Tame Hermit Thrushes. By C. J. Stanwood. 
A Brief History of the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union. By Myron H. 
Swenk. 
A Recent Instance of the Nesting of Barn Swallows on Cliffs. By N. 
DeW. Betts. 
The May Bird Census.— Lists for single days in mid-May, the largest 
being 138 at Oberlin, Ohio, May 15, 1916, made by six observers. 
The Wilson Bulletin. XXVIII, No.3. September, 1916. 
A Strange Nesting of the Barred Owl and Red-shouldered Hawk. By 
Walter A. Goelitz.— Close together on the same tree. ; 
Birds by the Wayside. By Althea R. Sherman.—In Palestine and from 
Jaffa to Constantinople. 
Fall Migration Records (1906-1915) at Ann Arbor, Michigan, By A. D. 
Tinker and N. A. Wood. 
An April Day’s Migration in the Dakota Valley. By 8. 8 Visher. 
Preliminary List of the Birds of Floyd County, Iowa. By C. L. Fenton. 
— Ninety species. 
Notes on the Breeding Warblers of Tennessee. By A. F. Gainer. 
The Ibis. X Series, IV, No. 4. October, 1916. 
On the Coloration of the Mouths and Eggs of Birds. II. On the Color- 
ation of Eggs. By C. F. M. Swynnerton.— This important paper reviews 
the various theories that have been advanced to explain the coloration of 
eggs and presents a number of original comments and criticisms. Several 
experiments are also described in detail, dealing with transference of eggs. 
from one nest to another, and the preference of the rat and mongoose for 
eggs of various colors. 
Some Birds of Palawan, Philippine Islands. By Willoughby P. Lowe. 
The Bird-Caves of the Bermudas and their Former Inhabitants. By 
Dr. R. W. Shufeldt (see p. 98 antea). 
Hider Duck on the Ythan. By H. R. Kelh. 
Obituaries of J. A. Harvie Brown and others. 
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. CCXVIII. Octo- 
ber 24, 1916. 
