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Tail-Feathers and theib Upper Coverts. By Hubert Lyman Clark . . . 113 



Ferruginous Stains on Waterfowl. By Frederic H. Kennard .... 123 



The Description op the Voice op Birds. By R. M. Strong .... 133 

 Notes on the Breeding Birds op Pennsylvania and New Jersey. By 



Richard C. Harlow '..... 136 



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

 ington. By Lee Raymond Dice ......... 148 



A Study of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. By Clara Kern Bayliss . . . 161 



The Extraction op Fat prom Bird-Skins. By Hoyes Lloyd .... 164 



The Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) in Maine. By Arthur H. 



Norton 170 



Ipswich Bird Notes. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . . . . 182 



Notes on North American Birds. V. By Harry C. Oberholser . . . 185 

 Notes on the Subspecies of Numenius americanus Bechstein. By Harry C. 



Oberholser 188 



A New Species op Loon (Gavia viridigularis) from Northeastern Siberia. By 



Jonathan Dwight, M. D. ......... 196 



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



North American Birds. By Harry C. Oberholser ..... 200 



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 {Podilymbus podiceps) near State College, Center Co., Pa., 218; A 

 Red-throated Loon on Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Boston, Mass., 219; The Ivory 

 Gull (Pagophila 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 Whistling Swan at Cap St. Ignace, P. Q., 222; Solitary 

 Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria solitaria) in New Mexico, 223; King Rail (Rallus elegans) 

 in Massachusetts, 223; Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) eating Birds, 223; Downy 

 Woodpecker in Colorado, 223; The Starling in Montgomery, Alabama, 224; The 

 Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) at Portland, Maine, 224; Yellow-headed Blackbird at 

 Ipswich, Mass., 224; Nesting of the Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra minor) in 

 Essex County, Massachusetts, 225; The Song of Bachman's Sparrow (Peuccea 

 aestivalis bachmani), 226; Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra rubra) in NE. Illinois, 

 226; Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula) breeding within the United States, 

 226; Philadelphia Vireo (Vireosylva philadelphica) in North Dakota, in Summer, 

 227; Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) in New Jersey, 227; The Sub- 

 specific Name of the Northern Parula Warbler, 228; Bachman's Warbler and 

 Solitary Sandpiper in Indiana, 228; The Canada Warbler again in Colorado, 229; 

 Mockingbirds {Mimus polyglottos polyglottos) spending the Winter at West Haven, 

 Conn., 229; The Hudsonian Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus subsp.?) in North- 

 eastern Pennsylvania in June, 230; Hudsonian Chickadee on the Pocono Mountain, 

 Pa., 230; Hudsonian Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus subsp.?) at Princeton, N. J., 

 231; A Robin which Migrated Tailless, 231; Connecticut Notes, 232; Massachu- 

 setts Notes, 233; Massachusetts Notes, 234; Notes from the Chicago Area, 234; 

 Notes on some British Columbia Birds, 234; Notes on Some Species New to the 

 Colorado List of Birds, 236; Subsequent Nestings, 237; The Destruction of Nests 

 by Farming Operations in Saskatchewan, 238; Goudot's Explorations in Colombia, 

 240; Unusual Dearth of Birds, 241 ; Correction, 242. 



Recent Literature. — Chapman's 'Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia,' 242; Gee 

 and Moflett's 'Birds of the Lower Yangtse Valley,' 246; Mathews' 'Birds of Aus- 

 tralia,' 246; Kalmbach on the Crow and its Relation to Man, 246; Arthur's 'Birds 

 of Louisiana,' 247; Murphy on the Natural History of the Mexican Portion of the 

 Colorado Desert, 248; Batchelder on New Birds from Newfoundland, 248; Murphy 

 on a New Albatross, 249; Shufeldt on Fossil Birds from Vero Florida, 249; Publica- 

 tions on Bird Protection, 249; Swarth on Jays of the Genus Aphelocoma, 250; Wet- 

 more on Palseochenoides mioceanus Shufeldt, 251; Economic Ornithology in Recent 

 Entomological Publications, 251; Protection of Military Carrier-Pigeons, 253; 

 Birds Probably not Distributors of Hog Cholera, 253; • The Ornithological Journals, 

 254; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 257; Publications Received, 259. 



Correspondence. — 'Sight' Records, 262. 



Notes and News. — Obituaries: Walter R. Zappey, 263; Roland G. Hazard, 264; 

 George B. Batten, 264; Dr. James C. White, 265; Eric B. Dunlop, 266; Henry 

 Justice, 266; Foreign Members of the A. O. U., 266; Called to the Colors, 267. 



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