CONTENTS 



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In Memoriam: Edgar Alexander Mearns. By Charles W. Richmond. (Plate I.) 1 



The Breeding Birds op Pennsylvania and New Jersey. By Richard C. Harlow 18 



Uncolored Prints from Havell's Engravings of Audubon's ' Birds of 



America.' By Harry Harris. (Plates II-III.) ...... 29 



The Breeding of the Migrant Shrike at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 



1916. By H. Mousley 33 



Labrador Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) in its Return Flight 



from the Fall Migration of 1916. By Horace* W. Wright ... 37 



The Birds of "Walla Walla and Columbia Counties, Southeastern Wash- 

 ington. By Lee Raymond Dice ......... 40 



A Revision of the Races of Toxostoma redivivum (Gambel.) By Harry C. 



Oberholser .............. 52 



Notes on North American Birds. IV. By Harry C. Oberholser ... 62 



Thirty-fifth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



T. S. Palmer 65 



General Notes. — Common Tern Nesting at Thousand Islands, 74; European Widgeon 

 at Madison, Wis., 74; The European Widgeon in Massachusetts, 75; Little Blue 

 Heron in Pennsylvania, 75; Northern Phalarope in Michigan, 75; Sharp-tailed 

 Grouse at Tremont, Indiana, 75; The White- winged Dove {Melopelia asiatica asi- 

 atica) in Georgia, 76; The Harpy Eagle in Colorado, 77; The Harpy Eagle in Colo- 

 rado, 78; Sap-drinking by Sapsuckers and Hummingbirds, 79; Starlings at Barn- 

 stable, Mass., 80: Yellow-headed Blackbird in New Jersey, 81; The Bohemian 

 Waxwing in Grand Junction, Colo., 81; Concerning Brewster's Warbler, 82; 

 Brewster's Warbler in Pennsylvania, 82: Blackpoll Warbler Lingering in Massa- 

 chusetts, 82; Labrador and Acadian Chickadees at Hatley, Stanstead Coimty, 

 Quebec, 83; Willow Thrush in Pennsylvania, 83; Subsequent Nestings, 83; Un- 

 common Birds at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec, 84; Early Bird Records for 

 the vicinity of Washington, D. C, 85. 



Recent Literature. — Herrick's ' Audubon the Naturalist,' 86; The New ' Birds of 

 America,' 89; Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, 91; Catalogue of the Childs 

 Library, 93; Preliminary List of the Birds of Tennessee, 93; Birds of Carthage, 

 Illinois, 94; Swarth and Bryant on the White-fronted Geese of California, 94; Ober- 

 holser on the Subspecies of Leach's Petrel, 95 ; Oberholser on Birds from Islands in 

 the Java and China Seas, 95 ; Paxson on the Last of the Wild Pigeon in Bucks County, 

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

 Gyldenstolpe, 96; Cary's ' Life Zone Investigations in Wyoming,' 96; Third Report 

 of the Meriden Bird Club, 96; Mathews' ' Birds of Australia,' 97; Bird Conserva- 

 tion 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; 

 Ornithological 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. 



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