viii Contents of Volume XIX. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Grinnell's ' Check-List of California Birds,' 405 ; Berlepsch and Hartert 

 on the Birds of the Orinoco Region, 407 ; Dubois's ' Synopsis 

 Avium,' 409 ; ' Two Vanishing Game Birds,' 410 ; Job's ' Among 

 the Water-Fowl,' 411 ; Witherby on the Migration of Birds, 412 ; 

 Shufeldt on the Osteology of "the Psittaci, 412; Strong on the 

 Metallic Colors of the Feathers of the Neck oif the Domestic Pig- 

 eon, 412 ; Mearns on Three New Birds from the Southern United 

 States, 413; Oberholser on New South American Birds, 413; 

 Oberholser on Birds from Paraguay, 413; Chapman on Birds 

 from Alaska, 414 ; Shelley's ' Birds of Africa,' Vol. IIL 414 ; Ber- 

 toni's 'Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 414; Publications Received, 

 417. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Extra-illustrated Edition of ' Baird, Brewer and Ridgway,' 418; 

 In re Meleagris sylvestris Vieillot, 419 ; Unsatisfactory Records, 

 420. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Dr. James G. Cooper, 421 ; Alonzo M. Collett, 422 ; Clar- 

 ence H. ISiorrell, 423 ; A Handbook of Western United States 

 Birds, 423 ; Game Laws for 1902, 424. 



Index 425 



Errata . 447 



Contents of Volume XIX. ...... iii 



Officers, Committees and Members of the American Orni- 



thologists'Union, 1901-1902 ix 



LIST OF PLATES. 



American Herring Gull. 

 Nest and Eggs of Shoveller and Pintail. 

 Fig. I, Nesting Site of Canvasbacks and Redheads ; Fig. 2, 



Nest and Eggs of Redhead. 

 Nest and Eggs of Canvasback. 

 Fig. I, Nest and Eggs of Lesser Scaup Duck ; Fig. 2, Nest of 



American Golden-eye. 

 Nest and Eggs of Ruddy Duck and Canada Goose. 

 Gull Cliff, Anticosti Island. 

 . Showing bastard wing in flight of Pigeon and Stork. 



IX. Nest and eggs of Red-shouldered Hawk and Ring-billed Gull. 



X. Work of the Pileated Woodpecker. 



XI. Bills of Geospiza. 



XII and XIII. Food seeds of Galapagos Birds. 

 XI\^. Species and Subspecies of Colinus. 

 XV. Species and Subspecies of Cvrtonyx. 



