CONTENTS 



On the Trail of the Ivory-bill. By Frederic H. Kennard. (Plates I-III) 



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



Anatomical and Other Notes on the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) 



Lately Living in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. By Dr. R. W 



Shufeldt. (Plates IV-VI) 



Ten Hours at Fernando Noronha. By Robert Cushman Murphy 



Notes on American and Old World English Sparrows. By John C. Phillips 



A New Subspecies of Screech Owl from California. By J. Grinnell . 



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



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



Coale. (Plates VII-X) ". 



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



PAGS 

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 59 

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82 

 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 Plover 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 Ptarmigan in Minnesota, 99; Audubon's Caracara in New 

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

 101; An albinistic Bobolink, 101; Lecontes Sparrow in Wisconsin, 101; The Even- 

 ing 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 

 Arizona, 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 Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 117; Recent Literature on Bird Protection, 117; Studies in Egg 

 Production in the Domestic Fowl, 118; Birds as Carriers of the Chestnut-Blight 

 Fungus, 119; Reichenow's 'Die Vogel,' 119; Second Report on the Food of Birds 

 in Scotland, 121 ; Feilden on Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, 121 ; The Ornithological 

 Journals, 123 ; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 128 ; Publications Received , 

 131. 



Correspondence — Obituary Notices, 133; Time of Incubation, 134; Changes in By- 

 Laws of the A. O. U., 134. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Theodore N. Gill, 139; The San Francisco Meeting of 

 the A. O. U., 140; Importation of Rhea plumage, 142; Full Names of Authors in 

 'The Auk,' 143; Book Notice, 144; Exhibition of Water colors of Birds, 144. 



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