CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXV. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 A Long-drawn-out Migration: Its Causes and Consequences. 



By Rev. G. Eifrig 1 



Notes on the Spring Migration (1907) at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



By Norman A. Wood . . . . . . . . 10 



Nesting Habits of Birds at Stamford, Connecticut, as Af- 

 fected BY THE Cold Spring. By Louis N. Porter . . 16 

 The Breeding Season of the American Barn Owl {Strix pratin- 



cola) in South Carolina. By Arthur T. Wayne ... 21 

 Summer Birds of Southwestern Saskatchewan. By A. C. 



Bent 25 



Red-spotted Bluethroat of Alaska. By S. Buturlin . . 35 



The Generic Names Mycteria and Tantalus of Linn^us, 1758. 



By J. A. Allen 37 



The Birds of Custer and Dawson Counties, Montana. By E. 



S. Cameron .......... 39 



Summer Birds of the Green Mountain Region of Southern 



Vermont. By Francis H. Allen ...... 56 



On the Status of Brewster's Warbler {Helminthophila leuco- 



bronchialis) . By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. ... 65 



Bird Records from Gre.\t Slave Region. By Ernest Thompson 



Seton 68 



Twenty-fifth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 



Union. By John H. Sage 74 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Canvasback at Bridgewater, Mass., 80; Capture of a Tagged Can- 

 vasback Duck, 80; An American White-fronted Goose and Wil- 

 son's Phalarope in Essex County, Mass., 80; Rallus lirginianus a 

 Delaware "S'alley Breeder, 81; The Florida Gallinule, Stilt and 

 Buff-breasted Sandpipers near Portland, Me., in 1907, 81; The 

 Ruff at Seabrook, N. H., 82; Capture of the White-winged Dove 

 in the State of Washington, 82; Capture of the American Goshawk 

 and Harris's Sparrow near Chicago, 111., 82; A Large Migration of 

 Hawks, 82; New Massachusetts Records for the Hawk and Great 

 Gray Owls, 84; Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus) 

 in Maryland, 84; Nelson's Sparrow {Ammodramus nelsoni) on 

 Long Island, N. Y., 84; The Tree Swallow Nesting in the Dela- 

 ware Valley, 85; The Name of the California Least Vireo, 85; 

 Lawrence's and Brewster's Warblers and Mendelian Inheritance, 

 86; The Prairie Warbler near Chicago, 87; The Kentucky War- 

 bler in Southern New Jersey, 87; Another Caiion Wren Record for 

 Colorado, 87; Bewick's Wren {Thryomanes bewickii) on the 

 Coast of South Carolina, 87; A Parasitic Fly Injurious to our 

 Native Birds, 87. 



