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A Fortnight on the Fakallunes. "Ry Mi/ion S. Ray 425 



Additions to Mitchell's List of the Summ ^r Birds df Sax Micukl County, New 



Mexico. By Florence Merriain Bailey 443 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of Leon County, Florida. By R. ll\ Williams, Jr. 449 

 Nesting Habits of the Woodpf.ckers and the Vultures of Mississippi. By Cliarles 



R. Stockard 4^3 



The Birds of West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. 'By Andrew Allison . . . 472 



General Notes. — Curlew Sandpiper in New Jersey, 485; Occurrence of the Spotted Sandpiper in 

 Kent, England, 485 ; Killdt-ers at Allen's Harbor, R. L, 4S5 ; Note on the Generic Names Bellona, 

 Orthorhytichus, Chrysolampts , and Enlnnipis, 485; On the Proper Name of the Tody of Jamaica, 

 486; The Bobolink in Colorado, 486; Henslow's Sparrow in Munroe County, Pa., 486; Breeding of 

 the Dickcissel in New Jersey, 487 ; Another Nest of Kirtland's Warbler, 487 ; An Interesting Varia- 

 tion in Seiuriis, 488; Warblers and Grapes, 489; The Raven in Southern New Hampshire, and 

 Other Notes, 491. 



Recent Literature. — The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 494; Cooke's ' Some New 

 Facts about the Migration of Birds,' 501 ; G. M. Allen's " The Birds of New Hampshire,' 503; Todd's 

 Birds of Erie, Pa., 505 ; Hartert's ' Die Vogel der Palaarktischen Fauna,' 505 ; Kirtland's Warbler, 

 506 ; Forbush on the Destruction of Birds by the Elements, 507 ; Judd's ' The Economic Value of 

 the Bobwhite," 509 : Elrod on Birds in Relation to Agriculture, 509. 



Notes and News. — Obituaries: John Fannin, 510; James M. .Southwick, 511. Worthington Society 

 for the Investigation of Bird Life, 511; Twenty-second Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, 512. 



Index S'3 



Contents op Volume XXI iii 



Officers, Com.mittees, and Members of the .-American Ornithologists' Union . . ix 



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