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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 Affected by the Cold 



Spring. By Louis N. Porter 16 



The Breeding Season of the American Barn Owl (Strix pratincola) 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 Taiitalus of Linn^us, 1758. By J. A. Allen . 37 



The Birds of Custer and Dawson Counties, Montana. By E. S. Cameron . 39 



Summer Birds op the Green Mountain Region of Southern Vermont. By 



Francis H. Allen 56 



On the Status of Brewster's Warbler (H elminthophila leucobronchialis). By 



Charles W. Townsencl, M. D . 65 



Bird Records from Great Slave Lake 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 Wilson's Phalarope in 

 Essex County, Mass., 80; Rallus virginianus a Delaware Valley 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 

 Wasliington, 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 Delaware 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 Warbler in Southern New Jersey, 87 ; Another 

 Caflon Wren Record for Colorado, 87; Bewick's Wren {Thryomanes hewickii) on the 

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



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 Fundamental Bars in Feathers,' 98; Hopkins on the 

 Bony Semicircular Canals of Birds, 98; A Twenty-five Year Index to 'Tlie 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. Adoption by the A. O. U. Council 

 of Article 30 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 105; Announce- 

 ments 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. 



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