Contents of Volume XXV 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Leslie A. Lee, 340; Edward A. Samuels, 341. Report of 

 the A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature, 341; The Revised A. 

 O. U. Code of Nomenclature, 341 ; Mr. Robert Rid^way's return 

 from Costa Rica, 342; Mr. Frank M. Chapman's Expedition to 

 Southern Florida, 342. 



Fourteenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' 



Union's Check-List of North American Birds . . . 343 



NUMBER lY. 



448 



The Copper-plates of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 'Birds 

 of America,' with a Brief Sketch of the Engravers By 

 Ruthven Deane . ■ ■ • • • ■ • .401 



Some Birds of Central Alabama. By Aretas A. Saunders . . 413 

 Birds of the Bellingham Bay Region. By J. M. Edson . 425 

 List of the Birds of Louisiana. Part V. By G. E. Beyer, 



Andrew Allison, and H. H. Kopman 439 



The King Cameos of Audubon. By C. Hart Merriam. (Plate 



VII.) 



Recent Bird Records from Manitoba. By Ernest Thompson 



Seton -A ^x- rr ,■ ^^^ 



Birds of the Region about Needles, California. By N. Hol- 



lister. (Plate T77/.) -155 



The Birds of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. 



By Albert B. Reagan 462 



Changes of Plumage in Buteo swainsoni. By E. S. Cameron 468 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Breeding of the Loon in Pennsylvania, 471; A note on the Audubon 

 Shearwater, 472; Lead Poisoning in Ducks, 472; Masked Duck 

 {Nomonyx dominicus) in Chatham Co., Georgia, 472; Ardea 

 egretta in New Jersey, 473; American Avocet {Recurrirostra 

 americana) in Camden Co., Ga., 473; Bartramian Sandpiper in 

 Wayne Co., Mich., 473; Krider's Hawk and the English Sparrow 

 Nesting Together, 474; Migration of Hawks, 474; Turkey Buz- 

 zard {Cathartes aura) in Northern Illinois, 475; Pileated Wood- 

 pecker near Litchfield, Conn., 475; Nelson's Finch in the :\Ioun- 

 tains of Virginia, 475; Lark Sparrow {Chondestes grammacus) in 

 Camden Co., Ga., 476; Lark Sparrow in Southwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, 476; Chondestes grammacus at Ipswich, Mass., 476; A 

 Tame Field Sparrow, 477; Destruction of English Sparrows, 477: 

 Swainson's Warbler and Chuck-will's-widow Breeding North of 

 the James River, Virginia, 478; Bachman's Warbler in Camden 

 Co., and Breeding in Chatham Co., Ga., 479; Cape May Warbler 

 in Camden Co., Ga., 479; The Kirtland and Pine Warlilers m 

 W^ayne Co., Mich., 480; The Hooded Warbler a Summer Resident 

 in Greene Co., N. Y., 480; Breeding of the Carolina Wren in Rhode 

 Island, 480; The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Southeastern Penn- 



