CONTENTS. 



Routes of Migration. By Wells IV. Cooke. • 



Summer Resident Birds ok Brewster County, Texas. By Thos. II. Montgomery Jr. . 12 



Where does the Large-billed Sparrow spend the Summer? By Joseph Grinnell. . • 16 

 The Status OF Helminthopkila leucobronchialis and Helminthophila lawrencei. By Louis 3. 



Bishop 2I 



The Decrease of Certain Birds in New England. 'By Edward Howe For busk. . . 25 

 William Swainson to John James Audubon. (A hitherto unpublished letter.) By Ruthven 



Deane .........■•■■■■•■■ 3 ' 



Plumage Wear in its Relation to Pallid Subspecies. By Jonathan £>wigkt,Jr. . . 34 

 Notes on the Birds ok the An Sable Valley, Michigan. By -Norman A. Wood and Earl 



H. Frothingluxm • • • • 39 



Rec.urc.itative Feeding of Nestlings. By Irene C. H'heelock 5' 



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



General Notes. — Sabine's Gull in Montana, 76; Additional Record of the European Widgeon 

 (Mareca peiielope). 76; Little Blue Heron in Connecticut, 76; Little Blue Heron in Massachusetts, 

 77; Description of Second Michigan Specimen of Cory's Least Bittern, 77; Avocet {Recurvirostra 

 americana) in New Jersey, 78; The Turkey Buzzard (jCathartes aura) in Maine, 78; A Correction, 

 70; The Gray Sea Eagle (Halueetus albicilla) in British Columbia, 79; The Arctic Three-toed 

 Woodpecker in Melrose, Mass., 80; Wintering of the Red-headed Woodpecker at Detroit, Michigan, 

 80; The Chuck-will's-widow in Kansas, 81 ; I he Raven in Southern New Hampshire: — A Lom- 

 ■ ment, 81 ; The Blue Jay and other Eastern Biids at Wray, Yuma County, Colorado, 81 ; The Blue 

 Jay at Yuma, Colorado, 82 ; Another Deformed Bill. S3; Clay-colored Sparrow in the Cariboo Dis- 

 trict, British' Columbia, 83; Henslow's Sparrow in St. Clair County, Michigan, S3 ; The Northern 

 Parula Warbler in Southern Michigan, 84; Bachman's Warbler in Leon County, Florida, 85 ; The 

 First Hooded Warbler Taken in Maine, 85 ; Breeding of the Hudsonian Chickadee {Farus hudsoni- 

 cus) at Dover, tyaine, 85; Hudsonian Chickadee about Boston, Mass., S7 ; The Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher in the Public Garden, Boston, Mass.,S7; Notes on Several Rare Southeastern Michigan 

 Birds. SS; Additional Records for Southeastern Michigan, 89; The Apparent Power of Reasoning 

 in Birds, Sq ; Guthrie's Geography, 1815 Edition, 00; Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 91. 



Recent Literature —Cooke's Distribution and Migration of North American Warblers, 91; Osgood 

 on Birds of Alaska, 92; Nelson on New Birds from Mexico, 03 ; Henderson's Additional List of 

 Boulder County, Colorado, Birds, 93: Preliminary Review of the Birds of Nebraska, 94 ; Scott on 

 the Inheritance of Song in Passerine Birds, 95 ; Scott's Ornithology of Patagonia, q6 ; Bryan's ' A 

 Monograph of Marcus Island," 98; Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Birds, Part 111,99; Todd on 

 the Mammal and Bird Fauna of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 100; Stone on Birds and Mammals 

 from Mt. Sanhednn, California, io<>; 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 Extraor- 

 dinary 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 History, 107; Taylor's Egg Catalogue, 109; A 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 109 ; Work of the A. O. U. Committee on Bird Pro- 

 tection, in. 



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