CONTENTS 



PAGB 



Georgia's Rarities Further Discovered in a Second American Portfolio 



of John Abbot's Bird Plates. By Samuel N. Rhoads. (Plate IV.) . . 271 



Notes on the Anatomy of the Cuban Trogon. By Hubert Lyman Clark . . 286 



Further Notes and Observations on the Birds of Hatlet, Stanstead 



County, Quebec, 1916-1917. By H. Mousley 289 



Home Life of the Vesper Sparrow and the Hermit Thrush. By E. M. and 



W. A. Perry 310 



321 



326 



333 



340 



344 



The Distribution of Nuttall's Sparrow in California. By Carl L. Hubbs 



The Limicol-e of the State of Washington. By J. H. Bowles 



The Birds of Desecheo Island, Porto Rico. By Alexander Wetmore . 



Some Recent Connecticut Bird Notes. By Arelas A. Saunders 



Notes on the Nesting Birds of Wahpeton, North Dakota. By J. K. Jensen 



General Notes. — Larus nelsoni in Juvenal Plumage, from the Hawaiian Islands, 349; 

 Anas rubripes rubripes in North Dakota, 350; Melospiza melodia phxa in Southern 

 California, 350; Numenius americanus americanus not a Breeding Bird of Michigan, 

 350; The Rough-legged Hawk {Archibuteo lagopus sancli-johannis) at Washington, 

 D. C., 351; Occurrence of Goshawks (Aslur a. alricapillus) and Saw-whet Owl 

 (Cryptoglaux acadica) in the Vicinity of Washington, D. C, 351; Large Flight of 

 Great-Horned Owls and Goshawks at Hadlyme, Connecticut, 351; Megaceryle vs. 

 Streptoceryle, 352; The Sapsucker Wintering in Central Maine, 353; A Crested 

 Flycatcher injured by Swallowing a Grasshopper, 354; An Attempt to Breed the 

 Pine Grosbeak in Captivity, 355; The Systematic Position of Calyptophilus, 356; 

 Junco aikeni in New Mexico, 357; Notes on Some Bird Fossils from Florida, 357; 

 A Note Concerning Bird Mortality 35S; Birds and Mulberries, 359; An American 

 Edition of Audubon's 'Ornithological Biography,' 360. 



Recent Literature. — Loomis on the Tubinares, 362; Murphy on Atlantic Oceanites, 

 364; Cory's 'Catalogue of Birds of the Americas,' 365; McAtee's 'Sketch of the 

 Natural History of the District of Columbia,' 366; Townsend's 'In Audubon's 

 Labrador,' 367; Pearson's 'Tales from Birdland,' 367; Mathew's ' Birds of Australia,' 

 368; Lincoln's 'The Woodpeckers of Colorado,' 368; 'Cassinia' for 1917, 369; 

 Bangs and Penard on a Collection of Surinam Birds, 369; Riley on a New Bullfinch 

 from China, 370; McGregor on New or Noteworthy Philippine Birds, 370; Gabriel- 

 son on the Birds of Clay and O'Brien Counties, Iowa, 370; Recent Papers on Bird 

 Preservation, 370; Bird Enemies of Brine Shrimps and Alkali Flies, 372; Bird 

 Enemies of the Varying Hare, 372; Curious Hording Habits of Birds, 372; Bird 

 Enemies of Tree Hoppers (Membracidae), 373; The Ornithological Journals, 374; 

 Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 378; Publications Received, 379. 



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. 



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