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I he Classification of the Family Dendkocolaptid^. Bv Dr. Herman ton 



Ihering. (Plates XI-XIIj . . .145 



The Okaloacoochee Slough. By Frederic H. Kennard. (Plates XIII-XV) . 154 



Cabot's Types of Yucatan Birds. By Outram Bangs ..... 166 



The Atlantic Range of Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot)). 



By Robert Cash man Murphy . . . . . . . . . 170 



Some Suggestions for Better Methods of Recording and Studying Bird 



Songs. By Aretas A. Saunders ......... 173 



List of the Birds of Louisiana. Part VII. By //. //. Kupman . . . 183 



Phaethon catesbyi Brandt. By Gregory M. Mathews ..... 195 



Simultaneous Action of Birds: A Suggestion. By Winsor M. Tyler. M. D. 198 



The Old New England Bob-white. By Jntm ('. Phillips. (Plate XVI) . . 204 



Early Records of the Wild Turkey. IV. By Albert Haeen Wright . . l'07 



General Notes. — The Red-throated Loon {Gavia stellata) at Berwyn, Pa., 225; Mal- 

 lards Wintering in Saskatchewan, 225: European Widgeon in Washington, 225; 

 Harlequin Duck in the Glacier National Park. Montana, 225: The Blue Goose 

 [Chen coerulescens) in Rhode Island, 226; Occurrence of the Pectoral Sandpiper 

 (Pisobia maculata) near Salem, X. J., 226: The Wimbrel, Ruff, Buff-breasted Sand- 

 piper, and Eskimo Curlew on Long Island. X. Y , 226: The Diving Instinct in Shore 

 birds. 227: The Little Black Rail on Long Island. N. Y., 227: Richardson's Owl 

 and Other Owls in Franklin County. New York. 22s : Lewis's Woodpecker taken 

 in Saskatchewan, 22S: Prairie Horned Lark in Rhode Island in Summer, 229; 

 Crows Nesting on the Ground, 229; The Bermuda Crow. 229: The Orange-crowned 

 Warbler in Cambridge, Mass.. in December. 230: A Winter Record for the Palm 

 Warbler on Long Island. X. Y., 230: The Blackburnian and Bay-breasted Warblers 

 at Martha's Vineyard. Mass., 230: The Cape May Warbler [Dendroica tigrina) 

 as an Abundant Autumnal Migrant and as a Destructive Grape Juice Consumer at 

 Berwyn. Pa.. 231; Cape May Warbler Eating Grapes, 233: Addendum, 234; The 

 Rock Wren at National, Iowa. 234: Corthylio — A Valid Genus for the Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet, 234: A Note on the Migration at Sea of Shore Birds and Swallows, 

 236: Rare Birds near Waynesburg, Pa.. 236: Some New York City Notes, 237; 

 Notes from Wisconsin, 237: Changes and Additions to the ' List of the Birds of Galla- 

 tin County. Montana. 238; What Bird Lovers Owe to the Late Professor King, 239; 

 Morning Awakening Notes at Jefferson Highland, N. H., 24U. 



Recent Literature. — 'The Auk' Index, 1901-1910, 242: The New B. (). U. List, 243; 

 Hankin on Animal Flight. 245; Snethlage's Catalogue of the Birds of Amazonia.' 

 247: Hornaday's 'Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice.' 248; Hartert's 

 'Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna.' 2is: Phillips on Experimental studies of 

 Hybridization among Ducks and Pheasants. 249: Allen on Pattern Development 

 in Mammals and Birds, 249: Shufeldt on the skeleton of the Ocellated Turkey. 250; 

 Smith's 'Handbook of the Rocky Mountains Park Museum, 250: M earns on New 

 African Birds, 251; Von Ihering on Brazilian Birds. 251; Allen's ' Birds in their 

 Relation to Agriculture in New York State, 251; Simpson's 'Pheasant Farming,' 

 252; Recent Biological Survey Publications, 252; Economic Ornithology in Recent 

 Entomological Publications. 253: Two Recent Papers on Bird Pood by Collinge, 254; 

 First Report of the Brush Hill Bird Club. 255: Recent Reports on Game and Bird 

 Protection. 255: The Ornithological Journals. 256: Ornithological Articles in Other 

 Journals. 261; Publications Received. 263. 



Correspondence. — A Bird Census of the United States, 267. 



Notes \m> News. — Louis di Zerega Mearns, 268; 'The Auk' Review of ornithological 

 Journals 269: The Delaware Valley Ornithological flubs Quarter-century, 269; 

 svstematists and Experimental Biologists, 270 ; S. N. Rhoads' Expedition to Guate- 

 mala, 271 : The A. O. U. California Meeting, 271. 



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