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The Elepaio df Hawaii. By //^. Jl'. Heushaw. 225 



List of Birds observed in the Neighborhood of Wequetonsing, Emmet Co., Mich., 



July g to July 23, igoi. By O. U'idiiiann 232 



Birds of the Island of Carriacou. Part I. Water Birds. V>y John Grant Wells. . 237 



Notes on the Specialized Use of the Bastard Wing. By //';«. HkM'cII Fisher. 



(Plate X.) ■ 246 



Plumage-cycles and the Relation between Plumages and Moults. By Jonathan 



Diuight, Jr., M. D 248 



On the finding of the Bones of the Great Auk {Plantiis iin/>e?iHis) in Florida. By 



O. P. Hay 255 



The Birds of Margarita Island, Veneziiela. "Qy Anstui F. Clark. .... 258 



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



Unusual Abundance of the Snowy Owl {Nyctea nyctea) in New England and Canada. 



By Rjithven Deane. 271 



General Notes. — The American and European Herring Gulls, 2S3 ; Leach's Petrel at Westford, 

 Mass., 284 ; European Widgeon in Michigan, 284 ; The Vellow-crowned Night Heron at Portland, 

 Me., 285; 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, 285 ; The Red Phala- 

 rope in North Carolina, 285 ; The Name of the Zenaida Dove, 286 ; The Bald Eagle in Ohio 

 County, West Virginia, 2S7 ; Nest and Eggs of the Red-sliouldered Hawk, 287 ; The Pileated 

 Woodpecker (Ceofhlaiis pileatjis) in Minnesota, 2S8 ; Song of the Alder Flycatcher, 289 ; The 

 < )ccunence of the Prairie Horned Lark at Southern Pines, N. C, 289 ; The Boat-tailed Grackle as 

 a Stowaway, 289; The Grassliopper Sparrow in Maine, and other Notes, 290: Anotlier Scarlet 

 Tanager for Colorado, 290; Pirangn rubra — Another Long Island, N. V., Record, 291; Blue- 

 winged Warbler {Helininthophila phius) near Boston, 291 ; Capture of Kirtland's Warbler at Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan, 291 ; The Louisiana Water-Thrush {Seii/riis niotacilla) near Boston, 292 ; Seiiirus 

 luotacilla in Eastern Massachusetts, 292 ; The Carolina Wren in Eastern Massachusetts, 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 Massachusetts Notes, 294; Notes on the Spring Migra- 

 tion of Birds in the Northern Adirondacks, NewYork, 279 ; Some Notes from Western Texas, 300. 



Recent Literature. — Campbell's Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, 301; Woodcock's Birds of 

 Oregon, 302 ; Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 303 ; Lucas on a New Fos- 

 sil Flightless Auk, 304 ; Perkins and Howe's Preliminary List of the Birds of Vermont, 304 ; Pack- 

 ard's ' Lamarck, His Life and Work,' 306 ; ' Upland (ianie Birds,' 306 ; Richmond's List of Generic 

 Terms proposed for Birds during 1890-1900, 307 ; ( )berholser's Review of the Horned Larks, 30S ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant on Recently Described American Gallinae, 309: Clark's 'Birds of Lakeside and 

 Prairie, 309 ; Publications Received, 309. 



Eleventh Supplement to the American Ornithologist's Union Check-List of North 

 American Birds. ............... 315 



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