CONTENTS TO VOLUME XIX. 



NUMBER I. 



Pagb, 



Nesting Habits of the North Dakota Anatid^. By A. C. 



Bent. (Plates II-IV.) i 



The White-winged Crossbill in Confinement. Bj James 



Haynes Hill. . . . . . . . . . . -13 



Summer Birds of the Great Dismal Swamp. By JoAn W. 



Daniel, Jr. ........... ic 



The Status of Certain Supposed Species of the Genus 



Larus. By William H. Kobbe 19 



Birds of the Northeastern Coast of Labrador. By Henry 



B. Bigeloxv. ........... 24 



Report of the Committee on the Protection of North 



American Birds. By Witmer Stone 31 



Results of Special Protection to Gulls and Terns obtained 



through the Thayer Fund. By Williatn Butcher. (Plate I.) 34 

 Nineteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 



Union, ^y John H. Sage 64 



Description of Three New Birds of the Families Mniotil- 



tid.e and Corvid.e. By Robert Ridg%vay 69 



Two Subspecies which should be Added to the Check-List 



OF North American Birds, ^y Edgar A. Mearns. , . 70 

 Description of a Hybrid Between the Barn and Cliff Swal- 

 lows. By Edgar A. Mearns. ....... 73 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Franklin's Gull in the Virginia Mountains, 74; Remarkable Flight of 

 Gulls at Cumberland, Md., 75 ; A Supposed New Colony of "Least 

 Terns on Marthas Vineyard, 76 ; The European Widgeon in 

 North Carolina, 76; Northern Phalarope and Black Tern at Cum- 

 berland, Md., 76; Second Record of the Purple Gallinule 

 (lonornis martinica) in Illinois, 77 ; Cory's Bittern, 77 ; A Kill- 

 deer {^-Egialitis vocifera) in the Vicinity of Cambridge, Mass., 

 78; American Avocet and American Three-toed Woodpecker 

 \Picoides americanus) at Toronto, 79 ; Capture of the Mexican 

 Jacana in Florida, 79; Note on the Name Colinus, 79; Aquila 

 ckrysactos, 79; Occurrence of the Barn Owl in Canada, 79; Strix 

 lafponica, 79; Snowy Owl and Golden Eagle at Plymouth, Michi- 

 gan, So; The Hawk Owl in Massachusetts, 80; The Flf Owl in 

 California, 80 ; Unusual Abundance of Lewis's Woodpecker 

 near Tucson, Arizona, 80 ; The Rivoli Hummingbird in Southern 

 California, 83 ; Vestipedes vs. Eriocnefnis, 83 ; Note on ' Delattria 

 henrici' S3 ; Lark Sparrow and Olive-sided Flycatcher in Western 

 Maryland, S3 ; The Song Notes of the Alder Flycatcher, 84 ; 

 The Correct Name for the Canadian Pine Grosbeak, 85 ; The 

 Labrador Savanna Sparrow, 85 ; The Cardinal in Cambridge, 

 Mass., 86 ; The Cardinal Breeding at Sioux City, Iowa, 86; Tiaris 

 instead of Euetheia, 87 ; An Addition to the Avifauna of the 

 United States, 87; The Philadelphia Vireo in Vermont, 88 ; The 



