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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. Satmders ..... 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.) . . • . 448 



Recent Bird Records from Manitoba. By Ernest Thompson Seton . . . 450 



Birds OF THE Region about Needles, California. By N. H oil ister. (Plate VIII.) 455 

 The Birds or 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 domini- 

 cus) in Chatham Co., Georgia, 472; Ardea egretta in New Jersey, 473; American Avocet 

 (Recurvirostra americana) in Camden Co., Ga., 473; Bartramlan Sandpiper in Wayne 

 Co., Mich., 473; Krider's Hawk and the English Sparrow Nesting together, 474; Mi- 

 gration of Hawks, 474; Turkey Buzzard {Cathartes aura) in Northern Illinois, 475; 

 Pileated Woodpecker near Litchfield, Conn., 475; Nelson's Finch in the Mountains 

 of Virginia, 475; Lark Sparrow {Chondestes grammacus) in Camden Co., Ga., 476; 

 Lark Sparrow in Southwestern Pennsjdvania, 476; Chondestes grammacus at Ips- 

 wich, 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 Warblers 

 in Wayne 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-graj^ 

 Gnatcatcher in Southeastern ^nnsylvania, 481 ; The Hermit Thrush as a Summer 

 Resident of Long Island, N. y!, 481; Records from Bloomington, Ind., 482; New 

 and Unpublished Records from Washington, 482; Averaging Migration Dates, 484; 

 Ontario Bird Notes, 486. ^ 



Recent Literature. — Stone on 'Methods of Recording and Utilizing Bird-Migration 

 Data,' 488; Birds of the New Haven Region, 490; 'A Check List of Rhode Island 

 Nesting Birds,' 490; Penard's Birds of Guiana, 491; Forbes's Statistical Study of the 

 Mid-Summer Bird Life of Illinois, 491; Warren on Birds of Northwestern Colorado, 

 492; Howell on Winter Birds of Northern Louisiana, 493; Birds of Yellowstone Park, 

 493; Carriker on New Birds from Costa Rica, 493; Mrs. Miher's ' The Bird Our Brother,' 

 493. 



Correspondence. — Membership Conditions in the A. O. U., 494. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: J. V. Barboza du Bocage, 496, Francis H. Snow, 497. A 

 New Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in California, 497; 'How to Attract and Pro- 

 tect Wild Birds,' 497; Three New Bird Reservations, 498; Third Annual Meeting 

 of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 498; Twenty-sixth stated Meet- 

 ing of the American Ornithologists' Union, 498. 



Index . . 499 



Errata 533 



Contents of Volume . iii 



Officers and Members ............ ix 



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