Contents of Volume XXII. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Cooke's Distribution and Migration of North American Warblers, 

 91 ; Osgood on Birds of Alaska, 92 ; Nelson on New Birds from 

 Mexico, 93 ; Henderson's Additional List of Boulder County, 

 Colorado, Biids, 93; Preliminary Review of the Birds of 

 Nebraska, 94 ; Scott on the Inheritance of Song in Passerine 

 Birds, 95; Scott's Ornithology of Patagonia, 96; Bryan's 'A 

 Monograph of Marcus Island,' 98; Macoun's Catalogue of Cana- 

 dian Birds, Part 111,99; Todd on the Mammal and Bird Fauna 

 of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 100 ; Stone on Birds and Mam- 

 mals from Mt. Sanhedrin, California, 100; Raine on the Eggs 

 of the Solitary Sandpiper, 100 ; Riley on the Birds of Barbuda 

 and Antigua, 101 ; Dubois's ' Synopsis Avium,' 102 ; Madarasz's 

 'An Extraordinary Discovery in Ornithology,' 102; Shalow on 

 Arctic Birds, 103. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse, 104; John Cowing Knox, 106. 

 New Bird Groups at the American Museum of Natural Historv. 

 107 ; Taylor's Egg Catalogue, 109; A National Association of 

 Audubon Societies. 109; Work of the A. O. U. Committee on 

 Bird Protection, no. 



NUMBER II. 



Summer Birds of the Bahamas. By Glover M. Allen. (Plate I.) 113 



The Migration of Certain Shore Birds. By Austin H. Clark 134 



List of Birds seen in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, April i, 



1904. By //. //. Kopman . . . . . . . .140 



Nesting Habits of Birds in Mississippi. By Charles R. 



Stockard . .......... 146 



Nesting of the Golden Eagle in Montana. Bv E. S. Cam- 

 eron. (Plates II- VI.) " . . 15S 



Notes concerning certain Birds of Long Island, N. Y. By 



Wm. C.Braislin, M. D 167 



A Hitherto Unpublished Letter of John James Audubon. 



By Ruthven Dearie ......... 170 



John James Abert to John James Audubon. (Hitherto unpub- 

 lished Letters.) By Ruthven Deane . . . . . .172 



Some New and Rare Bird Records for Michigan. By Xor- 



tnan A. Wood .......... 175 



Nesting Habits of the Brown Creeper as Observed in 

 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Description of 

 a Nest from North Scituate. Bv Arthur P. Chadbourne, 

 M. D. (Plates VII-IX.) . 179 



The Breeding of the Brown Creeper in Eastern Massachu- 

 setts. Bv Frederic H. Kennard and Frederic B. McKechnie. 

 (Plates X-XII.) 183 



Birds of Delaware : A Preliminary List. By Samuel X. 



Rhoads and C.J. Pennock . . ■ ■ ■ . ■ .194 



