Contents of Volume XXV. 



of South Carolina, 216; Barrow's Golden-eye (Clangula islandica) 

 in Massachusetts, 217; The Whistling Swan (Olor columbianus) in 

 South Carolina, 217; Capture of the King Rail in Massachusetts, 

 218; Capture of the King Rail in Philadelphia County, Pa., 218; 

 Virginia Rail and Kentucky Warbler in New Jersey, 218; Rallus 

 mrginianus Breeding in the Delaware Valley, 219; Nesting of the 

 Virginia Rail in Philadelphia County, Pa., 219; Nesting of the Coot 

 in Philadelphia County, Pa., 219; American Woodcock Breeding 

 at Saint Marys, Georgia, 220; The Lesser Yellowleg in Phila- 

 delphia County, Pa., 220; Breeding of the Acadian Owl in New- 

 ton County, Indiana, 221; Glaucidium vs. Noct-ua — a Correction, 

 221; European Starlings {Stnrnus vulgaris) in Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey, 221; Another Clarke's Crow taken in Missouri, 222; 

 Bobolinks Summering in Southern Pennsylvania, 222; The Sa- 

 vanna Sparrow Breeding in Detroit and Hamtramck Village, 

 Michigan, 223; The Case of Hortulanus, 223; The Accidental Oc- 

 currence of the Green-tailed Towhee {Oreospiza chlorura) in Vir- 

 ginia, 224; Type Locality of Vireo pusillus, 224; Swainson's 

 Warbler, 225 ; Late Occurrence of the Black-poll Warbler {Den- 

 droica striata) in the District of Columbia, 225; The Canon Wren 

 in Colorado, 226; Red-spotted Bluethroat in Alaska, 226; A Black 

 Robin and its Albinistic Tendencies, 226; An Interesting Audu- 

 bon Specimen, 228; Three Erroneous Georgia Records, 229; 

 Notes on Three Michigan Birds, 2.30; Corrections to 'A List of 

 Land Birds of Southeastern Michigan,' 230; Some Rare Summer 

 Residents of Berks County, Pa., 232; Rare New England Birds, 

 233; Notes from West Virginia, 235. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Rothschild's 'Extinct Birds,' 238; Dearborn on a Collection of Guate- 

 mala Birds, 240; Shaw's 'The China or Denny Pheasant in Ore- 

 gon,' 241; Gigholi's 'Avifauna Italica,' 242; Bonhote's 'Birds of 

 Britain,' 243; 'British Birds,' 243; Godman's Monograph of the 

 Petrels, 244; Mathews's 'Handlist of the Birds of Australasia,' 

 244; Marshall on the Anatomy of Geococcyx, Bubo, and Aero- 

 nautes, 245; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Sarcops, 245; McAtee's 

 Food Habits of the Grosbeaks,' 245- The Work of the Biological 

 Survey, 246. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Dr. Rudolph Blasius, 24S. Mr. Robert Ridgway's second 

 visit to Costa Rica, 248; C. William Beebe's visit to Guiana, 248; 

 Frank M. Chapman's expedition to Southern Florida, 249; 

 Announcements of new Ornithological Publications, 249; Eight- 

 eenth Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological 

 Club, 250; Collections of East Indian Birds recently acquired by 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 2.50; Erratum, 250. 



