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InMemoriam: Theodore Nicholas Gill. By T. S. Palmer. (Plate XXVI) . 391 

 The More Northern Species of the Genus Scytalopus Gould. By Frank M. 



Chapman ...... . . ... 406 



The Plum Island Night Herons. By S. Waldo Bailey. ..... 424 



Bird Migration in the Mackenzie Valley. By Wells W. Cooke . . . 442 



List of Water and Shore Birds of the Puget Sound Region in the Vicinity 



of Seattle. By Samuel F. Rathbun ........ 459 



The Birds' Bath. By Heyward Scudder ..... . . 465 



A Four-winged Wild Duck. • By Charles Eugene Johnson (Plates XXVII- 



XXIX) 469 



Notes on Dichromatic Herons and Hawks. By Outram Bangs . . . 481 



Fossil Remains of the Extinct Cormorant Phalacrocorax macropus found 



in Montana. By R. W. Shufeldt, M. D 485 



Thirty-third Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



John Hall Sage 488 



General Notes. — Yellow-billed Loon {Gavia adamsi) in Colorado. — A Correction, 494; 

 The Puffin (Fratercula arctica arctica) on Long Island, N. Y., 495; A Near View of an 

 Iceland Gull, 495; The Arkansas Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) in Eastern Minne- 

 sota, 495; Starlings (Stumus vulgaris) in New Hampshire, 496; Bachman's Sparrow 

 near Chicago, Illinois, 496; Leconte's Sparrow in Wisconsin, 497; Junco Breeding in 

 Concord and Lexington, Mass., 497; The Indigo Bunting in Colorado, 498; Numer- 

 ous Migrant Pine Warblers (Dendroica vigorsi) at Fort Lee, N. J., 498; Black- 

 throated Blue Warbler in Colorado, 498; Cape May Warblers Destructive to Grapes 

 on Long Island, 498; The Resident Chickadee of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 498; 

 Winter Birds at Wareham, Mass., 499; Notes on Some Manitoban Birds, 500; 

 Bird-Notes from Cambridge, Isanti County, Minnesota, 501. 



Recent Literature. — Dall's Biography of Baird, 505; Baynes' 'Wild Bird Guests,' 507; 

 Job on Wild Fowl Propagation, 509: Laing's 'Out with the Birds.' 510; Cooke on 

 Bird Migration. 510; Faxon on Relics of Peale's Museum, 512; Mathew's 'Birds 

 of Australia.' 512: Recent Monographs by Oberholser, 513; Nature and Science on 

 the Pacific Coast, 513; Murphy on The Penguins of South Georgia, 514; Chapman 

 on New Birds from Central and South America. 515: Cory on New South American 

 Birds. 515: Burns on Periods of Incubation. 516: Henshaw on American Game Bird.s 

 517: Taverner on The Double-crested Cormorant and its Relation to the Salmon 

 Industry. 517: Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Limpkin and Stone Plover, 517; 

 Recent Publications of the Biological Survey, 518: DaCosta on the Economic Value 

 of the Birds of Sao Paulo. Brazil. 518: Third Report of Food of Birds in Scotland, 

 519: Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications. 520; The Orni- 

 thological Journals. 521; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 528; Publica- 

 tions Received. 531. 



Correspondence. — Methods of Recording Bird Songs, 535. 



Notes and News. — Obituaries: Graf Hans von Berlepsch, 539; Dr. Otto Herman, 539; 

 Egbert Bagg, 540; Ewen Somerled Cameron. 540; Prof. Frederick Ward Putnam, 

 541 : Frank B. Armstrong, 541 ; Appointment of Dr. T. S. Roberts in the University 

 of Minnesota, 541 



Index ...... ......... 543 



Errata 568 



Dates of Issue ............. 568 



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