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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVlIi. 



NUMBER I. 



Page. 

 In Memoriam : Elliott Coves. Bv D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E.. etc 



(Plate I.) " I 



In Memorl\m : George Burritt Sennett. Bv J. A. Allen. 



(Plate II.) '. . . .II 



BiRD.s OF San Miguel Island. By Outram Batigs. ... 24 



A List of Birds of the Districts of Parry Sound and Mus- 



KOKA, Ontario. 'Qy James H. Fleming: • ■ • ■ ■ 33 

 Descriptions of Five New Birds from Mexico. By E. W. Nel- 

 son. ............. 46 



The SEqiiENCE of Moults .\nd Plumages of the Larid.-e (Gulls 



and Terns). Hy Jonathan Dzvigki, Jr., M. D. .... 49 

 Eighteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 



Union. By John H. Sage. 63 



Report of the Committee on the Protection of North Amer- 



ic.\N Birds for the Year 1900. By Wilmer Stone. . . . 6S 

 Results of Special Protection to Gulls and Terns Obtained 



Through the Thayer Fund. By William Dutcker. . . 76 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Paroquet Auklet in Calitornia, 104; On the Southern Limit of 

 the Winter Range of Bonaparte's Gull (Lams p/iiladelp/iia), 104; 

 Mother Carey's Chicken, los ; The VelloAv-Billed Tiopic J3ird in 

 the Hawaiian Islands, 105; The Old Squaw at San Francisco, 105; 

 The Emperor Goose in the Interior of California, 105; Nesting of 

 Cory's Bittern at Toronto, Ontario, 106; Nesting of Cory's Bit- 

 tern [Ardea neoxena) and Other Notes, lOb ; Sexual Difference in 

 Size of the Pectoral Sandpipei^ (Tringa maculata), 107; Great 

 Gra\' Owl in Wyoming, 107; Breeding of the Alder Flycatcher 

 [Enipidanax traillii alnorum) near Plainfield, New Jersey', loS; 

 The Raven in Polk County, North Carolina, loS ; Song of the 

 Western Meadowlark, loS ; Occurrence of the Mexican Crossbill 

 [Eoxia curvirostra stricklandi) at Neligh, Nebraska, 109; An Ad- 

 dition to the A. O. U. Check-List, 109 ; Sequences of Plumages in 

 the Black-throated Blue Warbler, no; Granatellus venusta in 

 Sinaloa, no; Maryland Yellow-throat at Sea, no; The Breeding 

 of the Hermit Thrush on INIartha's Vineyard Island, in; The 

 Hermit Thrush on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in; Notes from 

 Ontario, 112 ; Two Interesting Records from New Mexico, 1 12. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Dwight's ' Secjuences of Plumages and Moults of the Passerine Birds 

 of New York,' 214; Grinnell's • Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Re- 

 gion,' 119; Sharpe's 'Hand List of the Genera and Species of 



