i v Contents of Volume XXXV. 



Paxson on the Last of the Wild Pigeon in Bucks County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 95; Peters on Birds from Santo Domingo, 96; Recent Papers 

 by Gvldenstolpe, 96; Cary's 'Life Zone Investigations in Wyoming,' 

 96; Third Report of the Meriden Bird Club. 96; Mathews' 'Birds of 

 Australia,' 97; Bird Conservation in 1917, 97; Mullens and Swann's 

 Bibliography of British Ornithology, 98; The Ornithological Journals, 

 98; Ornithological Articles in other Journals, 101; Publications 

 Received, 102. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Blue Color in Pigeons, 105. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituaries: Lyman Belding, 106; Dr. Henry McHatton, 107; Ornitho- 

 logical Work in 1917, 107; The List of Fellows of the A. O. U., 110; 

 Called to the Colors, 111, Chapman's Distribution of Bird Life in 

 Colombia, 112. 



NUMBER II. 



Tail-Feathers and theie Upper Coverts. By Hubert Lyman 



Clark 



Ferruginous Stains on Waterfowl. By Frederic H. Kennard 

 The Description of the Voice of Birds. By R. M. Strong . 

 Notes on the Breeding Birds of Pennsylvania and New 



Jersey. By Richard C. Harlow ..... 

 The Birds of Walla Walla and Columbia Counties, South 



eastern Washington. By Lee Raymond Dice 

 A Study of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. By Clara Kern Bayliss 

 The Extraction of Fat from Bird-Skins. By Hoyes Lloyd 

 The Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) in Maine. By 



Arthur H. Norton ........ 



Ipswich Bird Notes. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . 

 Notes on North American Birds. V. By Harry C. Oberholser 

 Notes on the Subspecies of Namenius americanus Bechstein 



By Harry C. Oberholser ....... 



A New Species of Loon (Gavia viridigularis) from Northeastern 



Siberia. By Jonathan Dwight, M. D. 

 Third Annual List of Proposed Changes in the A. O. U 



Check-List of North American Birds. By Harry C 



Oberholser 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



Horned Grebe Rising from the Ground, 218, Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus 

 podiceps) in Chester Co., Pa., in Summer, 218; Breeding of the Pied- 

 billed Grebe (Podihjmbus podiceps) near State College, Center Co., Pa., 

 218; A Red-throated Loon on Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Boston, Mass., 

 219; The Ivory Gull {Pagophlla alba) at Portland, Maine, 220; 

 Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) at Philadelphia, 221; Pterodroma 

 gularis in North America, 221; Blue Geese on Long Island, 222; The 



