CONTENTS 



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Some Birds from Sinai and Palestine. By John C. Phillips. (Plate XVII) 273 



The Fossil Remains of a Species of Hesperornis Found in Montana. By 



R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. (Plate XVIII) 290 



Summer Birds of Forrester Island, Alaska. By George Willett. (Plates XIX- 



XX) 295 



Notes on the Rock Dove (Columba domestica) . By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. 306 



On the Nesting of Certain Birds in Texas. By George Finlay Simmons. 



(Plates XXI-XXII) 317 



The Bird Life of Trinidad Islet. By Robert Cushman Murphy. (Plates 



XXIII-XXV) 332 



Early Records of the Wild Turkey. V. By Albert Hazen Wright . . 348 



General Notes. — The Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) in Jackson Park, 111., 367; 

 Another European Widgeon in Virginia, 367; Snow Geese and Swans in Massachu- 

 setts, 367; Wilson's Snipe Wintering in Nova Scotia, 368; Spotted Sandpiper and 

 Water, 368; Gray Sea Eagle off Nantucket, 368; Young Kingbird on a Cherry and 

 Dragon-fly Diet, 368; The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula) at Ithaca, N. Y., 

 369; Prothonotary Warbler at South Vineland, N. J., 370; Brown Thrasher Winter- 

 ing in Mass., 370; Birds Observed in Trinity Church Yard, New York City, 371; 

 Type Locality of Lewis's Woodpecker and Clarke's Nutcracker, 371. 



Recent Literature. — Levick's 'Antarctic Penguins,' 372; Miller on Ptilosis, with 

 Special Reference to the Feathering of the Wing, 373 ; Cory on New South American 

 Birds, 374; Shufeldt on the Tree Ducks, 374; Shufeldt on Fossil Birds in the Marsh 

 Collection, 375; White on an Expedition to the Interior of Australia, 376; Cassinia, 

 1914, p. 376; Publications on Bird Protection, 377; Bird Enemies of two Beetle 

 Pests, 377; Dissemination of the Chestnut-blight Fungus, 378; The Ornithological 

 Journals, 378; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 383 ; Publications Received, 

 384. 



Notes and News — Obituary: Harry K. Pomeroy, 386; Lord Brabourne, 387; The 

 Generic Problem, 387 ; Thirty-third Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union 

 at San Francisco, California, May 17-20, 1915, 388. 



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