CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXII. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 On the Trail of the Ivory-bill. By Frederic H. Kennard. 



(Plates I-III) 1 



List of the Birds of Louisiana. Part VI. By H. H. Kopman 15 

 Anatomical and Other Notes on the Passenger Pigeon {Ecto- 

 ■pistes migratorius) Lately Living in the Cincinnati Zoo- 

 logical Gardens. By Dr. It. W. Shufeldt. (Plates IV-VI) . 29 

 Ten Hours at Fernando Noronha. By Robert Cushman Murphy 41 

 Notes on American and Old World English Sparrows. By 



John C. Phillips . . . . . . . . . 51 



A New Subspecies of Screech Owl from California. By /. 



Grinnell ........... 59 



Early Records of the Wild Turkey. III. By Albert Hazen 



Wright 61 



The Present Status of the Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator). 



By Henry K. Coale. (Plates VII-X) 82 



Notes on a Captive Virginia Rail. By Alvin R. Cahn . . 91 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Concealing Posture of Grebes, 95; The Double-crested Cormorant in the 

 Chicago Area, 95; Note on the Feeding of the Mallard, 96; Piping 

 Pover, at Cape May, N. J., 97; The Yellow-crowned Night Heron in 

 Colorado. A Correction, 97; The American Bittern Nesting on Long 

 Island, N. Y., 97; Cory's Least Bittern in Illinois, 98; Willow Ptarmi- 

 gan in Minnesota, 99; Audubon's Caracara in New Mexico, 100; 

 Actions of the Red-shouldered Hawk, 100 ; Richardson's Owl in Illinois, 

 101 ; An albinistic Bobolink, 101 ; Leconte's Sparrow in Wisconsin, 101 ; 

 The Evening Grosbeak at Portland, Maine, 102; Two Species of Cliff 

 Swallow Nesting in Kerr County, Texas, 102; The Cape May Warbler 

 in Eastern Massachusetts, 104; The Records of the Tennessee and 

 Cape May Warblers in Southwestern Maine, 104; Cape May and 

 Tennessee Warblers in Philadelphia, 106; San Lucas Verdin in Ari- 

 zona, 106; Bluegray Gnatcatcher nesting in Wisconsin, 106; Robin's 

 Nests, 106; Two New Records for British Columbia, 107; Some 

 Unusual Breeding Records from South Carolina, 108; Notes on Some 

 Birds of the Maryland Alleghanies: An Anomaly in the Check-List, 

 108; The Status of the Song Sparrow and the Chipping Sparrow as 

 Early Birds, 110. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of North American Rails,' 113; - 

 Wetmore on the Growth of the Tail Feathers of the Giant Hornbill, 

 113; Chapman on New Colombian Birds, 114; Shufeldt on the Young 

 of Phalacrocorax atriceps georgianus, 114; 'Alaskan Bird-Life,' 114; 

 Mrs. Bailey's 'Handbook of Birds of the Western United States,' 

 Fourth Edition, 115; Mcllhenny's 'The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, 

 115; Mathews' 'Birds of Australia,' 116; Kuroda's Recent Orni- 

 thological Publications, 116; The Annual Report of the National 



