CONTENTS. 



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



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

 An Unpublished Letter of John J.\mes Audubon to his Family.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Unpublished Letters of Introduction carried by John James Audubon on 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 PigeOxN {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 Counties, Missouri. 



By E. Seymour Woodruff . 191 



General Notes. — Occurrence of a Dovekie at Port Wasliington, Wis., 215; An Addition 

 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 of South Carohna, 216; Barrow's Golden-eye {Clangula islan- 

 dica) in Massachusetts, 217; The WhistUng 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 vxrginianus 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 Yellow- 

 leg in Philadelphia County, Pa., 220; Breeding of the Acadian Owl in Newton County, 

 Indiana, 221 ; Glaucidiutn vs. Nodua — a Correction, 221 ; European Starlings (Stur- 

 nus vulgaris) in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 221; Another Clarke's Crow taken in 

 Missouri, 222; Bobohnks Summering in Southern Pennsylvania, 222; The Savanna 

 Sparrow Breeding in Detroit and Hamtramck Village, Michigan, 223; The Case of 

 Hortulanus, 223; The Accidental Occurrence of the Green-tailed Towhee {Oreospiza 

 chlorura) in Virginia, 224; Type Locality of Vireo pusillus, 224; Swainson's Warbler, 

 225- Late Occurrence of the Black-poll Warbler (Dendroica striata) in the District of 

 Columbia, 225; The Caflon Wren in Colorado, 226; Red-spotted Bluethroat in Alaska, 

 226; A Black Robin and its Albinistic Tendencies, 226; An Interesting Audubon 

 Specimen, 228; Three Erroneous Georgia Records, 229; Notes on Three Michigan Birds, 

 230- 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. 



Hecent Liter.^ture. — Rothscliild's 'Extinct Birds,' 238; Dearborn on a Collection of 

 Guatemala Birds, 240; Shaw's 'The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon,' 241; Gig- 

 lioli's 'Avifauna Italica,' 242; Bonhote's 'Birds of Britain,' 243; 'Briti-sh Birds,' 243; 

 Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, 244; Mathews's 'Handhst of the Birds of Austra- 

 lasia,' 244; Marshall on the Anatomv of Geococcyx, Bubo, and Aeronauies, 245; Shu- 

 feldt on the Osteology of Sarcops, 245; McAfee's Food Habits of the Grosbeaks,' 245; 

 The Work of the Biological Survey, 246. 



Notes and News. — Obituary; Dr. Rudolph Blasius, 248. Mr. Robert Ridgway's .second 

 visit to Costa Rica, 248; C. WiUiam Beebe's visit to Guiana, 248; Frank M. Chapman's 

 expedition to Southern Florida, 249; Announcements of new Ornithological Publica- 

 tions, 249; Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 

 250; Collections of East Indian Birds recently acquired by the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Sciences, 250; Erratum, 250. 



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