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InMemoriam: Thomas McIlwk'aith. M\ A . K.-Fisker. {ll'ith portrait.) ... i 



On THE Habits OF THE Laysan Albatross, '^-i H" alter K. Fisher. (Plates JI-VHI.) . 8 



Nesting Habits OF THE Herodiones IN Florida. By A. C.Bent. (Plates /A' and A', j 20 



Summer Bikds of the Leech Lake Region, Minnesota. 'By Edmonde S. Currier. . 29 



Bird Migration Pheno.mena in the Extreme Lo\ver Mississippi Valley. By Henry 



H, Kopmati. ................ 45 



The Correct Name OF the Pacific Dunlin. By S. A. Butiirlin 30 



An Abnormal Bii-i, OF A^ela/ierpesportoricensis. By B. S. Bmvdish. (Plate XI.) ... 53 



So.ME Noya Scotia Birds. By Spencer Trotter 55 



The Exalt.\tion of the Subspecies. By Jonathan Dwig-ht, Jr., HI. D. .... 64 



Yosemite Valley Birds. By O. Widinann 66 



Twenty-First Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. By John H. Sage. 74 



General Notes. — W^hite-winged Scoter in Colorado, 78 ; Occurrence of the Knot ( 7"r/?/^rt canutus) a. 

 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 Woodpecker in the 

 District of Columbia, 79 ; Einpidonax griseiis Brewst=.£'. caneccens Salv. & Godin., So; A Pre-, 

 occupied 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 bachnianii) in the Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, 82 ; Kirtland's 

 Warbler (De7idroica kirtlandi) on the Coast of South Carolina, 83 ; A Few Southern Michigan 

 Notes, 84 ; Occurrence of the Ruff (Pavoncella ptignax) 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," gi ; Anderson and Grinnell on the Birds of the Siskiyou Mountains, 

 California, gi ; Sharpe's ' Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds,' Volume IV, 92 ; Ridgway 

 on New American Birds, 93 ; Nelson on New Birds from Mexico, 93 ; Oberholser on a New Wren 

 from Texas, 94; Hartert's ' Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna,' 94 ; ' The A vicultural Magazine,' 

 95 ; Seth-Smith's Handbook of Parakeets, 96. 



Supplement.— Report of the A. O. U. Committee on the Protection of North American 

 Birds for the Year 1903. By IVilliain Diitclter. (Plates XII-XVI.) .... 97 



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