Contents oj Volume XIX. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary : Rev. George S. Mead, 222 ; Delaware Valley Ornitholog- 

 ical Club, 223 ; Maine Ornithological Society, 223: Notices of 

 Ornithological Journals, 224 ; Palmer's ' Legislation for the Pro- 

 tection of IBirds other than Game Birds,' 224. 



NUMBER III. 



Page. 



The Elepaio of Hawaii. By H. W. Hensha-w 225 



List of Birds observed in the Neighborhood of Wequeton- 



siNG, Emmet Co., Mich., July 9 to July 23, 1901. By O. 

 Widinann. ........... 232 



Birds of the Island of Carriacou. Part L Water Birds. 



By John Grant Wells 237 



Notes on the Specialized Use of the Bastard Wing. By 



Wm. Hiihbell Fisher. (Plate VIIL) 246 



Plumage-cycles and the Relation between Plumages and 



Moults. 'By Jotiathan Dwight,Jr., M. D. .... 248 



On the finding of the Bones of the Great Auk {Plautits 



iinfennis) in Florida. By O. P. Hay. . . . . 255 



The Birds of Margarita Island, Venezuela. By Austin H. 



Clark 258 



The Ipswich Sparrow in its Summer Home. By W. E. Saunders. 267 

 Unusual Abundance of the Snowy Owl {Nyctea nyctea) in 



New England and Canada. By Ruthven Deane. . . 271 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The American and European Herring Gulls, 283 ; Leach's Petrel at 

 Westford, Mass., 2S4; European Widgeon in Michigan, 2S4 ; The 

 Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Portland, Me., 2S5 ; A Third 

 Maine Specimen of the Little Blue Heron, 2S5 ; The King Rail 

 again near Portland, Me., 285 ; The King Rail in Winter near 

 Washington, D. C, 2S5 ; The Red Phalarope in North Carolina, 

 285 ; The Name of the Zenaida Dove, 286 ; The Bald Eagle in 

 Ohio County, West Virginia, 287 ; Nest and Eggs of the Red- 

 shouldered Hawk, 287; The Pileated Woodpecker (Ceophlwus 

 fileatus) in Minnesota, 288 ; Song of the Alder Flycatcher, 2S9 ; 

 The Occurrence of the Prairie Horned Lark at Southern Pines, 

 N. C, 289 ; The Boat-tailed Grackle as a Stowaway, 289 ; The 

 Grasshopper Sparrow in Maine, and other Notes, 290 ; Another 

 Scarlet Tanager for Colorado, 290; Pirauga rubra — Another 

 Long Island, N. Y., Record, 291 ; Blue-winged Warbler {Helinin- 

 thophila pinus) near Boston, 291 ; Capture of Kirtland's Warbler 

 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 291 ; The Louisiana Water-Thrush 

 (Seiurus motacilla) near Boston, 292 ; Sciurus motacilla in East- 

 ern Massachusetts, 292 ; The Carolina Wren in Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, 292 ; A Mockingbird near Boston, 292 ; The Catbird 

 again in Rhode Island in Winter, 292 ; Notes on Birds from the 

 South Pacific, 293 ; Unusual Winter Records, 293 ; Colorado Bird 

 Notes, 294 ; Some Southern New Hampshire and Western Massa- 



