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The Birds OF THE Island OF Carriacou. ^y John Grant Wells. (Concluded). ... 343 

 A New Long-billed Marsh Wren from Eastern North America. By Outravi Bangs. 349 



Sickle-billed Curlew. By C. W. Wickershani 353 



Birds of Porto Rico. By B. S. Bowdish 35 



The Relation of the Food to the Size of the Bill in the Galapagos Genus Geospiza. 



By Robert E. Snodgrass. 



A Description of the Adult Black Merlin {Falco ■ cohunbarms siickleyi). By 



Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. 



The Nomenclature and Validity of Certain North American Galling.. By 



E. IV. /kelson ^^^ 



A Hybrid between the Cliff AND Tree Swallows. By Frank M. C/ia/>man. . . . ^3^2 



General 



East Coast 



Notes.- The Arctic Tern in Hawaii, 394 1 The Occurrence of Boobies in Numbers on the 

 i^ast Coast of Florida, during a Storm, 395 ; ^r'^''« '^'^''/gain ^e^" m O!^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 crowned Niglit Heron (Aydlcorax violaceus) in Nova Scotia, 396.; Ihe Authority f 01 he Name 

 Geotrygon chrysia, 397; The Black Vulture (Catharista nrubu) in Virginia, 397 ; The Proper 

 N^nTfor the Western 'sparrow Hawk, 398; The Barn Owl on Long Island, 398; Nesting of the 

 Hawaiian 0^\ {Asio aca^itrlnns sandvicensis) or. Oahu H. 1., 399; F">^her Notes on the Sno^^^^ 

 An Addition to the Avifauna of Virginia, 400 ; A New tostei -parent 01 tne 



Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 404. 



Recent Literature. -Grinnell's 'Check-List of California Birds,' 405; Berlepsch and Hartert on 

 tTe Birds of the Orinoco Region, 407; T5ubois's Synopsis Avium.' 409 ;; Two Vanishing Game 

 Birds' 410- Job's 'Among the Water-Fowl,' 4.1; Witherby on the Migration of birds, 412, 

 Shue'ldt'on the Osteology of the Psittaci, 4.2; Strong on the Metallic Colors of the Feathers of 

 the Neck of the Domestic Pigeon, 412; Mearns on Three New Birds from the Southern United 

 States 4.3 Oberliorser on New South American Birds, 413; Oberholser on Birds from Paraguay, 

 4.3; Chapman on Birds from Alaska, 4.4; Shelley's "Birds of Africa,' Vol. Ill, 414; Bertom s 

 'Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 414 ; Publications Received, 417. 



Correspondence.- The Extra-illustrated Edition of ' Baird, Brewer and' Ridgway,' 4>8; I" --e 

 Meleagris sylvestris Vieillot, 419 ; Unsatisfactory Records, 420. 



Notes and News.- Obituary : Dr. James G. Cooper, 4.2.; Alonzo M. Collett, 422; Clarence H. 

 MerrilL 423 ; A Handbook of Western United States Birds, 423 ; Game Laws for .902, 424. 



, 425 



Index 



Errata ... 



Contents of Volume XIX 



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