CONTENTS. 



PAUB 



Maskbd Bob-white {,Coh'n7ts ridgwayi). By Herbert Brown ' . . . 2oq 



Curved-billed AND Palmer's Thrashers. By Joseph H. Clark. {Plate XVIII.') , . 214 



San Clembnte Island AND ITS Birds. By George F. Breninger 21S 



A List OF Land Bikds from Central and Southeastern Washington. By Robert E. 



Snodgrass. 223 



Birds OF Allegany and Garkett Counties, Western Maryland. By G. Ei/rig . . 234 



The Obligations of the Student of Animal Behavior. By William Alorton IVheeler. 251 

 Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird. By Ruthven 



Deane ■ 255 



Nesting Habits of the Herodiones in Florida. By A. C. Bent. {Plates XI X-XXI.) 259 



The Rhythmical Song of the Wood Pewee. By Henry Oldys 270 



The S'rtLXV?' ov Melospiza lincolni striata B^EWSTUK. By Joseph Grinttell. .... 274 



General Notes. — HolboeH's Grebe at Niagara Falls, 276; Holbcell's Grebe and the White Pelicah 

 at St. Mary's, Georgia, 277: Another Ohio Record for the Knot(7"r/«^« can?itiis), 2tj \ The Red- 

 backed Sandpiper in Massachusetts in December, 277; Capture of Krider's Hawk at St. Mary's, 

 Georgia, 277 ; The Great Gray Owl near Boston, 27S : The Pileated Woodpecker in Anne 

 Arundel County, Md., 27S; Whi-p-por-w'iW (A ?itrostomus z'oci/erns), a. New Bird for Colorado, 278 ; 

 Another Abnormal Bill, 279; The Western Meadowlark (Sturnella tnagna neglecta) in Southern 

 Georgia, 280 ; The Evening Grosbeak near Quebec, Canada, 2S0 ; The Pine Grosbeak on Long 

 Island, N. Y., 280, 281 ; White-winged Crossbill — A Correction, 2S1 ; The Lark Sparrow in Oneida 

 County, N. Y., 281; The Chewink in Winter at Ashland, Mass., 282 : Another Nest of the Phil- 

 adelphia Vireo, 2S2 ; The Philadelphia Vireo, 283 ; A Winter Record for the Hermit Thrush {Hylo- 

 cichla guttata pallasii)\n Eastern Massachusetts, 283 ; Two Additions to the Bird Fauna of Kansas, 

 284; Mortality among Young Birds, Due to Excessive Rains, 284 ; I'he Rapidity of Wing-Beats of 

 Birds, 286; A Correction, 286 ; Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 286; Delaware Bird Notes, 

 286; Bird Notes from Shelter Island, Long Island, N. Y., 287; Notes Concerning Certain Birds of 

 Long Island, N. Y., 2S7 ; British Columbia Notes, 289; The Ipswich Sparrow, Kirtland's Warbler, 

 and Sprague's Pipit in Georgia, 291. 



Recent Literature. — Coues's ' Key to North American Birds,' Fifth Edition, 292; Chapman's 

 'Color Key to North American Birds,' 296; Dawson's 'The Birds of Ohio," 297 ; Mrs. Bailey's 

 ' Handbook of Birds of the Western United States,' Second Edition, 299; Mrs. Wheelock's ' Birds 

 of California,' 299; Toney's 'The Clerk of the Woods,' 300; Mrs. Miller's 'With the Birds in 

 Maine,' 301; Kumlien and HoUister's 'The Birds of Wisconsin,' 301; Silloway's 'The Birds of 

 Fergus County, Montana,' 302 ; Oberhol.=er's ' Review of the Wrens of the Genus Troglodytes ' 

 303; Oberholser on the American Great Horned Owls, 304; Snodgrass and Heller on thei 

 ' Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago,' 305; Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Halcyones and 

 Liniicola;, 306; Evans's 'Turner on Birds,' 306; Recent Papers on Economic Ornithology, 307; 

 Audubon Societies in their Relation to the Farmer, 309 ; Summary of Game Laws for 1903, 309. 



Notes and News. — Obituaries: Gurdon Trumbull, 310; Josiah Hooper, 311; Lyman S. Foster, 

 312. Omiihological Works in Prospect, 312. 



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