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Summer Birds of the Bahamas. By Glover M. A lien. {Plate I.) 113 



The Migration of Certain Shore Birds. By Austin F. Clark , 134 



List of Birds seen in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, April i, 1904. By H. H. Kopman. 140 



Nesting Habits of Birds in Mississippi. By Charles R. S toe hard 146 



Nesting of the Golden Eagle in Montana. By E. S. Cameron. (Plates I I-V.) . . 158 



Notes concerning certain Birds of Long Island, N. V. By IVm. C. Braislin, M. D. . 167 



A Hitherto Unpublished Letter of John James Audubon. By Ruthven Deane . . 170 

 John James Abert, to John James Audubon. (Hitherto unpublished letters). By Kuthven 



Deane . 172 



Some New and Rare Bird Records for Michigan. By Norman A . Wood . . . -175 

 Nesting Habits of the Brown Creeper as Observed in Plymouth County, Massa- 

 chusetts, with Description of a Nest from North Scituate. By Arthur P. 



Chadbourne,M.D. (Plates VI-IX.) 179 



The Breeding ok the Brown Creeper in Eastern Massachusetts. By Frederic H. 



Kennard and Frederic B. McKechnie. (Plates A'- XII.) ....... 183 



Birds of Delaware: A Preliminary List. By Samuel IV. Rhoads and C. J. Pennock . 194 



General -Notes. — Kumlien's Gull: An Addition to the Massachusetts List, 205; Leach's Petrel 

 (Oceanodroma lencorhoa) on the Long Island Shore, 205 ; Two Additional Records of the European 

 Widgeon (Mareca f>atelope), 206; An Unusual Migration of Ducks in Ontario, 206; The Gadwall 

 and Yellow Rail near Springfield, Mass., 207; Shore Birds Eating Small Fish, 208; A Killdeer's 

 Mishap, 209; A Correction, 210; The Crab Hawk {Urubitinga) in the Island of St. Lucia, West 

 Indies, 210; Scott s Sparrow in Colorado, 210; Nelson's Sparrow in Nebraska, 210; A Female 

 Cardinal Wintering in Concord, Mass., 211; Decrease of Purple Martinson Long Island, N. Y., 

 211; The Loggerhead Shrike in Connecticut in Winter, 211; Parula Warbler and Short-billed 

 Marsh Wren, 212 ; A Supposed Specimen of the Yellow Warbler {Dendroica cestiva) from Grenada, 

 West Indies, 212; Breeding of Wilson's Thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens) va. Virginia, 214; Notes on 

 the Nesting of the Varied Thrush, 214; An Unrecognized Subspecies of Bellona crislalus, 215; 

 Michigan Randoms, 216; Erroneous Maine Records, 217; Swainson and Audubon, 218. 



Recent Literature. — Ridgway's 'The Birds of North and Middle America,' Part ill, 219; Rich- 

 mond on Birds described by Pallas in 1764, 222 ; Harvie-Brown and Macpherson's ' A Fauna of the 

 Northwest Highlands and Skye,' 223 ; Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 224 ; 

 Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New York, 225; Dutcher's Report on Bird Protection, 225 ; 

 Hagmann's Concordance of Brazilian Birds described by Spix, Wied, Burmeister, and Pelzeln, 226; 

 Shufeldt on the Families and Higher Groups of Birds, 227; Clark on New Birds from St. Vincent, 

 W. I., 22S; Mearns on New Philippine Birds, 228 ; Shelley's ' Birds of Africa,' Vol. IV, Pt. 1,228. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Evan Lewis, 229. 'Nomenclature in Ichthyology,' 229; 'The War- 

 bler,' 230; ' The Apteryx,' 230 ; Work of the Biological Survey, 230; The National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 232. 



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