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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Widmann's 'Birds of Missouri,' 89; Jones on 'The Development of 

 Nestling Feathers,' 90; Beebe on Geographic Variation in Birds, 

 90; Braislin's Birds of Long Island, New York, 93; Finley's 

 'American Birds,' 93; Ihering's Birds of Brazil, 94; Beal on Birds 

 as Conservators of the Forest, 95; Beal on California Birds in 

 their Relation to the Fruit Industry, 96; Howell on the Relation of 

 Birds to the Cotton Boll Weevil, 97; Riddle's 'A Study of Funda- 

 mental Bars in Feathers,' 98; Hopkins on the Bony Semicircular 

 Canals of Birds, 98; A Twenty-five Year Index to 'The Auk' and 

 'Nuttall Bulletin,' 99; 'Dan Beard's Animal Book,' 100; Annual 

 Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies for 

 1907, 101. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Howard Saunders, 103; Rudolph Blasius, 104; Mrs. Isabel 

 Paddock Carter, 104; Mrs. Jacob L. Sweiger, 105. x\doption by 

 the A. O. U. Council of Article 30 of the International Code of 

 Zoological Nomenclature, 105; Announcements of forthcoming 

 Ornithological Publications, 105; Twelfth Annual Meeting of the 

 Maine Ornithological Society, 106; Third Annual Meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 107; The Heath 

 Hen, 108. 



NUMBER II. 



The Ecological Sitccession of Birds. By Charles C. Adams . 109 



The Bird Colonies of the Olympiades. By William Leon Dawson 153 



An Unpublished Letter of John James Audubon to his Family. 



By Ruthven Deane ......... 166 



Unpublished Letters of Introduction carried by John James 

 Audubon on his Missouri River Expedition. By Ruthven 

 Deane ........... 170 



List of the Birds of Louisiana, Part IV. By George E. Beyer, 



Andrew Allison, and H. H. Kopman ..... 173 



The Passenger Pigeon {Ectopistes migratorius) in Confinement. 



By Ruthven Deane . . . . . . . . .181 



Random Notes on the Distribution of Some Colorado Birds, 

 WITH Additions to the State Avifauna. By Horace G. 

 Smith 184 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of Shannon and Carter Coun- 

 ties, Missouri. By E. Seymour Woodruff . . . .191 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Occurrence of a Dovekie at Port Washington, Wis., 215; An Addi- 

 tion to the Birds of Iowa, 215; The Black Tern at Camden, N. J., 

 and at Philadelphia, Pa., 215; Another Capture of a Tagged Duck, 

 216; The Cinnamon Teal {Querquedula cyanoptera) on the Coast 



