CONTENTS. 



West Indian Parrots. By Austin H. Clark 337 



The Greater Antillean Macaws. By Austin H. Clark . 347 



List of Birds Collected or Observed during the Bahama Expedition of the Geo- 

 graphic Society of Baltimore. By/. H. Riley 34g 



Are the Habits of Birds Changing? By Geo. F. Breninger 360 



A Third Trip to the High Sierras. By Milton S. Ray. 363 



The Direction of Flight in the Fall Migration at New Haven, Connecticut. By 



Louis B. Bishop, M. D 372 



Summer Birds of Mount Pinos, California. By Joseph Grinnell. 378 



Notes on the Breeding of Bachman's Warbler, Heltni?ithophila bachmanii (Aud.), near 

 Charleston, South Carolina, with a Description of the First Plumage of 



the Species. By William Brewster ........... 392 



Notes on Certain Birds Taken or Seen near Charleston, South Carolina. By 



Arthur T. Wayne 395 



The Status of Certain Swainsonian Genera of Birds. By/. A. Allen . . . 400 



General Notes. — A Holboell's Grebe (Colymbus holboelli) at Englewood, N. J., in June, 407; The 

 Yellow-billed Tropic Bird near Phoenix, Arizona, 408 ; The Man-o'-War Bird (Fregata aouila) at 

 San Pablo Bay, California, 408; Brant's Nest, 408; A Brood of Albino Spoonbill Ducks (Spatula 

 clypeata), 408 ; Rare Ducks near Bridgewater, Mass., 409 : Rallies elegans and Ionornis martinica 

 in Massachusetts, 409 ; The Ruff at Camden, Maine, 409 : The California Partridge {Callipepla cali- 

 fornica) in Los Angeles County, California, 410; A Pigeon's Broken Leg that Healed Itself, 412 ; 

 The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) in Michigan, 413 ; The Turkey Vulture in Western Massa- 

 chusetts, 413 ; The Gray Gyrfalcon in Wisconsin, 413; Northern Pileated Woodpecker in Massa- i 

 chusetts, 414; A Rare Plumage of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) 414; 

 The Prairie Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris pralicola) on Mount Washington, N. H., 414; The 

 Pine Siskin Breeding at Guelph, Ontario, 415; The White-throated Sparrow Breeding in Eastern 

 Massachusetts, 415 ; Nesting of Henslow's Sparrow in St. Clair Co., Michigan, 416; Cassin's Spar- 

 row in Colorado, 416 ; The Orange-crowned Warbler (fi ' elminthophila celata) A Winter Resident 

 in South Carolina, 417; Brewster's Warbler (Helminthopila leucobronchialis) at Englewood, N. J., 

 417; Myrtle Warbler at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in January 1905 ; 417; The Water-Thrush (Seiurus 

 noveboracensis) 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 auduboni nigri/rons 1 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 History of 

 the American Flamingo, 426 ; Oberholser on Birds Collected in the Kilimanjaro Region, East 

 Africa, 427; McGregor on Philippine Birds, 427; Hartert's 'Die Vbgel der palaarktischen Fauna,' 

 Heft III, 428 ; Clark on the amount of Difference that should characterize Species and Subspecies, 

 429; Mascha's 'The Structure of Wing- Feathers, 434; Jacob'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 Protection, 437; 

 Palmer on Game Protection, 438. 



Notes and News. — Obituary; Walter E. Bryant, 439; Denis Gale, 442 ; Guy M. Bradley, 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 



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Officers, Committees, and Members of the American Ornithologist's Union . . ix 



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