Contents of Volume XIX. y 



A Synopsis of the Genus Commonly Called Anorthura. By 



Harry C. Obcrkolser. . . . . . . . . '175 



A Summer Colony at Anticosti. By Joseph Schmitt., M. D. 



(Plate VII). . . . . ' i8i 



An Undescribed Form of the Black Duck {Anas obscura). Bj 



William Breivster. ......... 183 



A Plan for Recording in a Condensed Form the Life History 



Notes of Birds. Bj A. H. Felger 189 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Occurrence of the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradiscea) in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, 195; Note on the name of Audubon's Shearwater, 195; 

 European Widgeon {Mareca fenelope) on Long Island, N. Y., 

 195 ; The Masked Duck in Vermont, 196 ; Rare Ducks in Massa- 

 chusetts, 196; The Wilson Plover in California, 197; The Yel- 

 low Rail (Porzaua ttoveboracensis) in Wisconsin, 197 ; An Abnor- 

 mal Specimen of the Bob-white (Coli?ius virffi/iianus), 197 ; Buteo 

 solitarius off the coast of Hawaii, 197 ; Unusual Nesting Date of 

 the Barn Owl {Strix pratincola'), 198 ; Nyctca nyctea on Long 

 Island, N. Y., 199 ; Belted Kingfisher in the Island of Hawaii, 

 199; A Winter Record for the Flicker [Colaptes atiratus Ititeus) in 

 Berkshire County, Mass., 199 ; The Winter Fringillidse of New 

 Brunswick, 199 ; The Occurrence of the Lapland Longspur, 

 {Calcarius lapponicus) in Mid-winter in Massachusetts, 202 ; The 

 Lapland Longspur Wintering in Massachusetts, 202 ; The Sa- 

 vanna Sparrow Wintering in Massachusetts, 203 ; The Ipswich 

 Sparrow [Ammodramus princeps) on the Coast of South Caro- 

 lina, 203; The Ipswich Sparrow [Ammodraimcs pri?iccps) on the 

 Mainland of South Carolina, 203 ; A Remarkable Specimen of 

 Bachman's Sparrow {PeuccBa cestivalis bacJimani), 204 ; Hens- 

 low's Sparrow on Shelter Island, N. Y., 204; The Field Sparrow 

 in Arlington, Mass., in Winter, 204 ; The Length of Life of the 

 Chipping Sparrow and Robin, 204 ; The Cardinal an Established 

 Resident of Ontario, 205; The Philadelphia Vireo in Western 

 Pennsylvania, 206 ; Observations of a Pair of Mockingbirds seen 

 during the Summer of 1901 in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., 

 Pennsylvania, 206; The Catbird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis) in 

 Massachusetts in Winter, 20S ; The Catbird Wintering at Con- 

 cord, N. H., 20S; The Carolina Wren at Lake Forest, Illinois, 

 209; Eastern Bluebird at Cheyenne, Wyo., 209 ; Michigan Bird 

 Notes, 1901, 209; Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y., 210; 

 Winter Notes from Louisiana, 210; Northern Birds at Cumber- 

 land, Md., 211; February Water Birds of Elsinore Lake, Cali- 

 fornia, 212. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Proceedings of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, 215; Reed's 

 'American Ornithology,' 215; Silloway's 'Summer Birds of 

 Flathead Lake,' 216 ; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Flamingoes, 

 217 ; Oberholser on a Collection of Hummingbirds from Ecuador 

 and Colombia, 217; Bangs on a Second Collection of Birds from 

 Chiriqui, 217; Seale on the Avifauna of Guam, 218 ; Mrs. Miller's 

 'The Second Book of Birds,' 219 ; Lord's ' Birds of Oregon and 

 Washington,' 219; Witherby's 'Bird Hunting on the White Nile,' 

 220; Publications Received, 220. 



