CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXI. 



NUMBER L 



Thomas McIlwraith. 



By A. K. Fisher (with 

 Bv Walter K. 



Page. 



Bv A. C. 



In Memoriam 



portrait). ....... 



On the Habits of the Laysan Albatross 



Fisher. {Plates II-VII.) 



Nesting Habits of the Herodiones in Florida. 



Bent. [Plates VIII and IX.) .... 



Summer Birds of the Leech Lake Region, Minnesota. By 



Edmonde S. Currier 

 Bird Migration Phenomena in the Extreme Lower Missis- 

 sippi Valley. By Hetiry H. Kopnian. 

 The Correct Name of the Pacific Dunlin. By 6^ A. Bnturlin 

 An Abnormal Bill of Melanerfes portoricensis. By B. S. 



Bowdish. [Plate XI.) ' . 



Soml Nova Scotia Birds. By Spencer Trotter. . 



The Exaltation of the Subspecies. 'By Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 



M. D 



Yosemite Valley Birds. By O. Widmann. .... 



Twenty-first Congress of the American Ornithologists' 



Union. By John H. Sage 



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45 

 50 



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64 

 66 



74 



GENERAL NOTES. 



White-winged Scoter in Colorado, 78 ; Occurrence of the Knot [Tringa 

 catiutus) at San Diego, California, 78; A Sanderling with Hind 

 Toes, 79; Black-bellied Plover and Hudsonian Godwit on Long 

 Island, N. Y., 79; The Ani in Florida, 79; The Pileated Wood- 

 pecker in the District of Columbia, 79 ; E^npidonax griseus 

 Brewst.=:^. canescens Salv. & Godin., 80; A Preoccupied Generic 

 Name, 80 ; Extension of the Breeding Range of the Prairie 

 Horned Lark [Otocoris alpestris praticola) to the Eastern Coast, 

 81 ; Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker and Evening Grosbeak 

 at Wellfleet, Mass., 81 ; The Evening Grosbeak in Presque Isle 

 Co., Mich., 82; The Bachman Sparrow [PeuccEa cestivalis bach- 

 manii) in the Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, 82 ; Kirtland's War- 

 bler [Dendroica kirtlandi) on the Coast of South Carolina, 83 ; 

 A Few Southern Michigan Notes, 84 ; Occurence of the Ruff 

 [Pavoncella pugnax) and Other Birds in Rhode Island, 85 ; The 

 Black-bellied Plover, Road-runner, and Black-throated Green 

 Warbler in Kansas, 85. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Walton's 'A Hermit's Wild Friends,' 87; Fisher's Birds of Laysan, 

 90; Jones's 'The Birds of Ohio,' 91 ; Anderson and Grinnell on 

 the Birds of the Siskiyou Mountains, California, 91 ; Sharpe's 

 ' Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds,' Volume IV, 92 ; 



