Cotite7its of Volume XXII. 



Thrush (Seiurus noveboracemis) Nesting in Lancaster, Mass., 

 418; The Louisiana Water-Thrush in Philadelphia in Summer, 

 419 ; The Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) a Resident in Dominica, 

 West Indies, 419; The Black-fronted Warbler {Dendroica audu- 

 boninigrifroni) in Southern California, 419 ; Young Birds Killed 

 by Trains, 419; Some Massachusetts Records of Interest, 420; 

 Notes from Northwestern Connecticut, 420; Two Records for 

 Colorado, 421; Colorado Notes, 421; Some Wayne County, 

 Michigan, Notes, 1905, 422. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Stephens's ' Life Areas of California,' 424 ; Chapman on the Life His- 

 tory of the American Flamingo, 426 ; Oberholser on Birds Col- 

 lected in the Kilimanjaro Region, East Africa, 427; McGregor 

 on Philippine Birds, 427; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der palaark- 

 tischen Fauna, 1 Heft III, 428 ; Clark on the Amount of Difference 

 that should Characterize Species and Subspecies, 429 ; Mascha's 

 'The Structure of Wing-Feathers, 434 ; Jacobs's West Virginia 

 Bird Notes, 435 ; Howe's ' Fifty Common Birds of Vermont', 435 ; 

 Oberholser on the Nomenclature of Certain Genera of Birds, 

 436 ; Forbush on the Decrease of Birds and Means for their Pro- 

 tection, 437; Palmer on Game Protection, 438. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary ; Walter E. Bryant, 439 ; Denis Gale, 442 ; Guy M. Brad- 

 ley, 443. Fourth International Ornithological Congress, 444 ; 

 Legaut's Giant Bird (genus Legautia), 446; English Names of 

 American Birds, 446; Twenty-third Congress of the A. O. U., 

 447- 

 Index ............. 449 



Contents of Volume XXII ........ iii 



Officers, Committees, and Members of the American 



Ornithologists' Union ix 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Plate I. Fig. 1, Cay Vegetation, Great Guana Cay, Bahamas; Fig. 2, 

 Outer edge of a Mangrove Swamp, Great Bahama. 

 " II. Site of Golden Eagle's Eyrie, Badlands, Terry, Montana. 

 " III-VI. Same Eyrie, with Eggs, and Eaglets in different stages of 



growth, from two days to two months old. 

 " VII-XII. Nesting of the Brown Creeper, showing various nesting 

 trees and nesting-sites, position of nests, the parent 

 birds, and a nest. 

 " XIII and XIV. Great Auk and Great Auk Eggs, in the Thayer 

 Museum, Lancaster, Mass. 



