Coiifoifs of Volume XVI IT. 



tions of the Swifts, 2S5 ; Herrick's ' The Home Life of Wild 

 Birds/ 2S6 ; Heck's 'Living Pictures of the Animal Kingdom,' 

 2S6; Mrs. BignelTs 'Mr. Chupes and Miss Jennj',' 2S7 ; Publica- 

 tions Received, 28S. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The So-called Cancelled Fasciculus of Cassia's Illustrations, 290. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Baron Edmund de Selys-Longschnmps, 290; Barbara 

 Jordan, 291 ; Memorial to William McGillivray, 291 ; Nebraska 

 Ornithologists' Union, 292 ; Announcements of New Publica- 

 tions, 293. 

 Tenth Supplemext to the A. O. U. Check-List of North 



American Birds ......... 295 



NUMBER IV. 



Page. 



An Ornithological Mystery. By Williain Brctvsfer. . . .321 



Nesting Habits of the Anatid^e in North D.\kota. Bv A. C. 



Belt. (Plates IV-VL) ' . • 32S 



A Preli.minary List of the Summer Birds of Mount Mansfield, 



Vermont. By Arthur H. Hoxvcll. ...... 337 



The Alder Flycatcher {Empidonax traiUii aliioruiii) as .\ Sum- 

 mer Resident of Eastern Massachusetts. By J. A. Farley. 347 



On a Collection of Birds Made by W. W. Brown, Jr., at David 



and Divala, CHiRiqLH. By Out ram Bangs. .... 355 



The Classification of Birds. By Hubert Lyman Clark. . . 370 



A List o^' the Hawaiian Birds in the St. Louis College Col- 

 lection, Honolulu, H. L, Including Records of Several 

 North American Species. By William Alanson Bryan. . 3S2 



Nesting Habits of the Evening Grosbeak {Coccof/irausfes z'es- 



fertiniis). By Francis J. Birtivcll. (Plate VH.) . " . -388 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of Sabine's Gull in Wisconsin, 392 ; Snowy Heron in Alberta, 

 392; A New Bird for the State of Ohio, 392; A Band-tailed 

 Hawk's Nest — An Arizona Incident of Biographical Interest, 392 ; 

 Nesting of the American Rough-legged Hawk in North Dakota, 

 393! Melanerpes eryihrocephalus Breeding near Boston, 394; 

 Discovery of the Egg of the Black Swift {Cypseloides niger 

 borealis), 394; A Rare Record for Eastern New York, 395; Acan- 

 t/iis linaria rostrata in the Outer Hebrides, 395; The Migratory 

 Movements of the Lapland Longspurs in North America, 396; 



