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Ornithological Results of the Canadian 'Neptune' Expedition to Hudson Bay 



and Northward. 1903-1904. By Rev. C. IV. G. Ei/rig . . . . . . 233 



The Forms of Vermivora celata Say. By Hurry C. Oberholser ...... 242 



William Swainson to John- James Audubon. (Hitherto Unpublished Letters.) By 



Ruthven Deane " 248 



Extirpated West Indian Birds. By Austin F. Clark 259 



The Lesser Antillean Macaws. By Austin F. Clark 266 



Nesting Habits of Birds in Mississippi. By Charles R. Stockard . . .- . 273 



Warbler Migration in Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi. By H. H. 



Kofjnan. . ... 2S9 



The Winter Ranges of the Warblers (Mniotiltid.<f.). By IV. IV. Cooke . . . 296 



The Purchase of a Great Auk for the Thayer Museum at Lancaster, Mass. By John 



E. Thayer. (Plates XIII and XI T '.) 300 



Ornithology of a Churchyard. By. B. S. Bowdish 302 



The Cuban Crab Hawk, Urnbitinga gundlachii (Cabanis). By Ontram Bangs . . . 307 



General Notes. — The Dovekie on the Coast of North Carolina, 310; The Golden Eagle (Aquila 

 chrysa'ctos) near Ottawa, 310; The Genus Contents in the West Indies, 310; Nesting of the Raven 

 {Corvus corax principalis) at Cumberland, Md., 312 ; A One-legged Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), 

 312; An Unusual Abundance of the Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) in and near Ottawa, 

 Can., 313 ; Hoary Redpoll in Montana, 313 ; A curious Anomaly in the White-throated Sparrow 

 (Zonotrichia albicollis), 313; The Migrant Shrike {Lanius ludovicianus migrans) at Ottawa, Can., 

 314; Capture of the K.irtland Warbler near Richmond, Ind., 314; The Kentucky Warbler at Winne- 

 conne, Wise, 314; Wintering of the Brown Thrasher in a Park in New York City, 314; An Addi- 

 tion to the Avifauna of Cuba, 315; Note on Lagopns tendinis and Leucosticte australis, 315 j Notes 

 from Northern New Mexico, 316; The Former Status of the Flamingo and the Fish Hawk in the 

 Lesser Antilles, 318; Two Massachusetts Records, 319; Notes on Nebraska Birds, 319; Do 

 Migrants Fast? 320; Hybridism between the Shoveller and Blue-winged Teal, 321. 



Recent Literature. — Townsend's ' The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts,' 322 : Job's 'Wild 

 Wings,' 324; Sharpe on the Birds of the Antarctic Regions, 325; Butterrield on Bird Migration, 

 325; Riley's ' Birds of the Bahama Islands,' 328; Bangs and Zappey's ' Birds of the Isle of Pines,' 

 329 ; Bangs on New American Birds, 329 ; Thayer and Bangs on the Birds of Gorgona Island, 

 Colombia, 329; Nelson on the Names of certain North American Birds, 330; Schioeler on the 

 Greenland Mallard, 331 ; Shelley's ' Birds of Africa,' Vol. IV, Pt. II, 332. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Walter E. Bryant, 332; Adolphe Boucard, 332. The Fourth Inter- 

 national Ornithological Congress, 333 ; Mr. Ridgway's Recent Ornithological Work in Costa Rica, 

 333 ; Ornithological Explorations, 334 ; Commemoration of Audubon's One Hundred and Twenty- 

 fifth Birthday, 334 ; Ornithological Publications in Prospect, 335 ; Michigan Ornithological Club, 

 335 ; Work of the A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature, 336. 



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