Contents of Volume XXXV. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Otto Finsch, 381; Henry Reed Taylor, 382; The Principal 

 Ornithological Societies, 382; Ornithological Endowment, 384; 

 Members of the A. O. U., 384; Called to the Colors, 385; The thirty- 

 sixth Meeting of the A. O. U., 386. 



NUMBER IV. 



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The Nesting Grounds and Nesting Habits of the Spoon- 

 billed Sandpiper. By Joseph Dixon. (Plate V.) . . 387 

 A Winter Crow Roost. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . . 405 

 The Pterylosis of the Wild Pigeon. By Hubert Lyman Clark . 416 

 Sexual Selection and Bird Song. By Chauncey J. Haivkins . 421 

 Some Additions and Other Records New to the Ornithology 



of South Carolina. By Arthur T. Wayne . . • . . 437 

 List of Birds Collected on the Harvard Peruvian Expedi- 

 tion of 1916. By Outram Bangs and G. K. Noble . . 442 

 Notes on North American Birds. VI. By Harry C. Oberholser . 463 

 The Subspecies of Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus. By Harry C. 



Oberholser .......... 467 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Cause of the "Fishy" Flavor in Wild Ducks, 474; Cinnamon Teal (Quer- 

 quedula cyanoptera) in North Dakota, 476; White-winged Scoter 

 (Oidemia deglandi) in South Carolina, 476; The Specific Name of the 

 Glossy Ibis, 476; Nesting of the Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) in 

 the Delaware Valley, 477; Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Chicago, 

 477; The Black Vulture (Catharista urubu) in Indiana, 477; The 

 Status of Buteo platypterus iowensis, 478; Flight of Horned Owls in 

 Canada, 478; Picoides arcticus in Florida, 479; Early Nesting of the 

 Northern Pileated Woodpecker in Pennsylvania, 479 ; Relative Length 

 of the Intestinal Caeca in Trogons, 480; The Range and Status of 

 Aphelocoma calif or nica hypoleuca Ridgway, 480; The Starling at 

 Plattsburg, N. Y., 481; The Northernmost Record of Icterus parisorum, 

 481; The Slate-colored Junco {J unco hyemalis hyemalis) breeding 

 near Boston, 482 ; Blue-winged Warbler Once More at South Sudbury, 

 Mass., 482; A Winter Record of Bewick's Wren from Northern 

 Virginia, 483; Russet-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata ustulata) 

 in New Mexico, 483; Notes from the vicinity of Washington, D. C, 

 483; Scarcity of Birds in the Spring Migration of 1918, 484; Notes 

 on Six Birds from Georgia, 485. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Dwight's Review of the Juncos, 486; Soper on the Birds of Edmonton, 489; 

 Wood on the Birds of Alger County, Michigan, 489; Bangs on New 

 South American Birds, 490; Wetmore on Duck Sickness in Utah, 490; 

 Mathews ' Birds of Australia,' 490; Grinnell on the Name of the Ameri- 

 can Barn Swallow, 491; Nichols on Some Aspects of Migration, 492; 



