CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVI. 



NUMBER I. 



The Distribution and Relationships of Ammodramus mar- 



itimus and its allies. By Frank M. Chapman. (Plate I.) . i 

 A Chapter in the Life of the Canada Jay. By Oscar Bird 



Warren. (Illustrated.) ...... .12 



The Generic Names Pedioccetes and Poocates. By Theodore 



Gill 20 



Description of a New Hylocichla. By Harry C. Oberholser . 23 

 Descriptions of New Birds from Mexico. By E. IV. Nelson . 25 

 A synopsis of the Blue Honey-Creepers of Tropical Amer- 

 ica. By Harry C. Oberholser 31 



New Species, etc., of American Birds. — III. Fringillid^e 



(Continued). By Robert Ridgivay 35 



Truth versus Error. By D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E. . . . 38 



" Truth wra« Error." By J. A. Allen 46 



Sixteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 



Union. By Jokn H. Sage 51 



Report of the A. O. U. Committee on Protection of North 



American Birds. By Witmer Stone 55 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Black-capped Petrel (sEstrelata hasitata) on the Ohio River at 

 Cincinnati, 75; The Purple Gallinule (fonomis martinica) in 

 Ohio, 75; The Corn Crake in Nova Scotia, 75; The Stilt Sand- 

 piper in Maryland, 76; The Turnstone {Arenaria interpret) in 

 Minnesota, 76; Note on Meleagris gallopavo fera, 77; The 

 Golden Eagle and Barn Owl at Northville, Wayne Co., Mich., 

 77; New Name for the Genus Tetragonops, 77; Notes on the 

 Myology of Hemiprocne zonaris, 77 ; The Authority for the Com- 

 bination Cypseloides niger boreal is, 78; Octhceca frontalis 

 (Lafr.) and Cardinalis granadetisis Lafr., 78; Pica pica hud- 

 sonica in California, 79 ; On the Genus Astragalinus Cabanis, 

 79; Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lappotiicus) in Massachu- 

 setts, So; Henslow's Sparrow in Ontario, 80; On the Generic 

 Name Aimophila versus Peuccea, 80; Further Notes on Dendro- 

 ica kirtlandi, Si ; Proper Name for Macgillivray's Warbler, 81 ; 

 Sprague's Pipit near New Orleans, La., 82; The Carolina Wren 

 ( Thryothorus ludovicianus) at Peace Dale, R. I., 83 ; The Finish- 

 ing Stroke to Bartram, 83; Rare Birds on Eastern Long Island, 

 N. Y., 85; Notes on Two Rare Birds from Long Island, N. Y., 

 85 ; Springfield, Mass., Bird Notes, 85 ; Xema sa b in ii and Chor- 

 deiles virginianus sennetti — Two Additions to the Iowa Avi- 

 fauna, 86. 



