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The Nesting Grounds and Nesting Haeits of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. 



By Joseph Dixon. (Plate V.) 387 



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



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



Sexual Selection and Bird Song. By Chauncey J. Hawkins . . . 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 Expedition 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 

 (Querquedula 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 platyptems iowensis, 478; Flight of Horned Owls in Canada, 478; 

 Picoides arcticus in Florida, 479; Early Nesting of the Northern Pileated Wood- 

 pecker in Pennsylvania, 479 ; Relative Length of the Intestinal Cseca in Trogons, 480 ; 

 The Range and Status of Aphelocoma califomica hypoleuca Ridgway, 480; The 

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

 481; The Slate-colored Junco {Junco 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 American Barn Swallow, 491 ; 

 Nichols on Some Aspects of Migration, 492; Birds of the National Parks, 492; 

 Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 493 ; Centurus radio- 

 latus in Relation to Cocoa in Jamaica, 495; Further Notes on the Possible Avian 

 Distribution of Hog Cholera, 495; Recent Publications on Economic Ornithology, 496; 

 The Ornithological Journals, 497; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 501; 

 Publications Received, 503. 

 Correspondence. — Concerning a Certain Tendency in Systematic Ornithology, 505; 



A Correction, 507. 

 Notes and News. — Uniform Nomenclature, 507; the Proposed 'Systema Avium,' 509; 

 Enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty, 509; Obituary: Col. William Vincent 

 Legge, 510; Dr. Robert Latshaw Walker, 511; Prof. Jonathan Young Stanton, 511; 

 The Elliot Medal Award, 512; Dr. Richmond Appointed Associate Curator, 512; 

 Annual Meeting of the B. O. U., 512; The Associates of the A. O. U., 513; Called to 

 the Colors, 513; The Thirty-sixth Meeting of the A. O. U., 514. 



Index 515 



Errata ................ 541 



Dates of Issue .............. 541 



Officers of the A. O. U. Past and Present ........ i 



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