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In Memoriam: WeEttsS WoopsripGe Cooke. By 7. 8S. Palmer. (Plate II.) . 119 
In AupuBon’s Lasrapor. By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. (Plates III-V.) . 133 
Tue PresenT ABUNDANCE OF BIRDS IN THE ViciNiTy oF Fort Sr. MicHasg., 
ApuaskKa. By F. Seymour Hersey . = is 3 5 3 ¢ 147 
Tue LaBrapor CHICKADEE (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) IN A SOUTHWARD 
Mieration. By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. . : 2 ; : E 160 
LABRADOR CHICKADEE (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) IN BOSTON AND VICINITY 
IN THE Fatt or 1916. By Horace W. Wright . i 2 5 : 164 
OrnITHOLOGY AT St. Marks. By J. A. Farley . - - * : : : 171 
CriTicaAL NOTES ON THE EASTERN SUBSPECIES OF Sitta sanotiientia Latham. By 
Harry C. Oberholser : F A : a . : 3 ¢ 181 
Tue BREEDING OF THE Boeken ae ATED BLuuE WARBLER AT | EASES STANSTEAD 
County, QuEBEc, 1916. By H. Mousley E 3 5 : f 3 187 
Nores on Nortu AmeErRicAN Birps, I. By Harry C. Oberholser i. P : 191 
A NEw SuBSPECIES OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD FROM WESTERN CENTRAL AMER- 
ica. By A. Brazier Howell c : c 5 7 : : : 196 
Sreconp ANNUAL List or PRoposEpD a IN THE A. & We Gear bee OF 
Norra AMERICAN Brirps ; 198 
GENERAL Nores.— Type of the ange willed Puffin, ‘ 205; The Possibility of Puke 
bermude 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 Ameri- 
can Fauna, 210; The Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina) in 
Southern New J ersey and Pennsylvania, 210; First Recorded Nesting of Bachman’s 
Sparrow in Pennsylvania, 2125 Bohemian Waxwing at Seattle, Wash., 212; Migrant 
Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus migrans) at Newburyport, Mass., 214; The Cape May 
and Other Rare Warblers at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 214; Breeding of 
the Canada Warbler in Northern New Jersey, 214; Mockingbird at West Haven, 
Conn., 215; Hudsonian Chickadees at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 215; 
Penthestes hudsonicus at Portland, Maine, 215; ‘‘One of the Rarest_Birds,’’ 215; 
Townsend’s Solitaire (M. townsendi) at Seattle, Washington, 217; Winter Birds 
at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 217; Unusual Late Autumn and Winter 
Records for Eastern Massachusetts, 217; Rare Winter Visitants in the Vicinity of 
Plainfield, New Jersey, 218; Notes from Madison, Wisconsin, 219; Notes from 
North Carolina, 219; Acknowledgment, 220. 
Recent LiteRATuRE.— The Allen Bibliography, 221; Thorburn’s ‘British Birds,’ 221; 
Evans’ ‘Birds of Britain,’ 223; Todd on New Birds from Colombia and Bolivia, 
224; Grinnell on the Evening Grosbeak, 225; Brooks’ ‘Game Birds of West Vir- 
ginia,’ 225; Forbush’s Recent Bulletins on Economic Biology, 226; A Bibliography 
of British Ornithology, 227; Cory on New South American Birds, 227; Oberholser 
on the Birds of Bawean Island, 227; Wetmore on Secondary Sexual Characters in 
the Ruddy Duck, 228; Mathews’ ‘Birds of Australia,’ 228; Origin of the Generic 
Name #thia, 229; Bird Enemies of a few Insect Pests, 230; Annual Report of the 
National Association of Audubon Societies, 231; Lloyd-Jones on Feather Pigments, 
232; Grinnell on Distributional Control, 232; Recent Publications of the U. S. 
Biological Survey, 232; The Ornithological Journals, 233; Ornithological Articles 
in Other Journals, 236; Publications Received, 236. 
CorRESPONDENCE.— A Description of Audubon, 239; Concealing Coloration, 240. 
Notes anp News.— Obituaries: Samuel Wright, 240; Mrs. Katharine Rebecca Styer, 
241; Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 241; Fuertes’ 
aa Portraits, 242; University of Michigan Ornithological Course, 242: Book 
otices, 242. ‘ 
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