CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVII 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 In Memoriam: William Brewster. By Henry W. Henshaw. 



(Plates I and II) 1 



William Brewster — An Appreciation. By John G. Gehring . . 24 

 William Brewster — Resolution of the Nuttall Ornitho- 

 logical Club 27 



The William Brewster Memorial 29 



In Memoriam: Lyman Belding. By A. K. Fisher. (Plate III) . 33 

 Midsummer Birds in the Catskill Mountains. By Stanley 



Cobb, M.D 46 



Notes on the Winter Birds of San Antonio, Texas. By Ludlow 



Griscom 49 



The Occult Senses in Birds. By Herbert H. Beck 55 



Birds of the Clear Creek District, Colorado. By F. C. Lincoln 60 

 Sandpipers Wintering at Plymouth, Massachusetts. By J. A. 



Farley 78 



Sequestration Notes. By Joseph Grinnell 84 



On Procellaria alba Gmelin. By Levereit Mills Loomis .... 88 

 Notes on Seven Birds Taken Near Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina. By Arthur T. Wayne 92 



The Status of the Subspecific Races of Branta canadensis. 



By J. D. Figgins 94 



Bachman's Warbler Breeding in Alabama. By Ernest G. Holt. 



(Plate IV) 103 



Description of a Proposed New Race of the Killdeer from 



the Coast of Peru. By Frank M. Chapman 105 



Descriptions of a New Species and Subspecies of Tyrannidae. 



By Charles B. Cory 108 



The Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union. By T. S. Palmer 110 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Black Skimmer on Long Island, N. Y., 126; Another Record of the 

 White Pelican in New York, 126; A Note on the Southern Teal, 126; 

 Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator) in Western Minnesota. A Cor- 

 rection, 127; Wild Swan on Long Island, N. Y., 127; Notes on Some 

 Shore Birds of the Alabama River, Montgomery County, Ala., 127; 

 The Black Rail at St. Marks, Florida, 128; Purple Gallinule in North 

 Carolina, 130; Breeding of the Mourning Dove in Maine, 130; The 

 Status of Harlan's Hawk in Colorado, 130; White Gyrfalcon (Falco 

 islandus) in Montana, 132; The Hawk Owl in North Dakota, 132; 

 Pileated Woodpecker in Morris County, N. J., 132; Unusual Habits 

 of Chimney Swift, 132; Empidonax griseus in Nevada, 133; The 

 Crow in Colorado, 134; Appearance of the Canada Jay at Moore- 

 head, Minn., 134; Note on the Food of the Starling (Sturnus vidgaris), 

 135; Harris' Sparrow in Michigan, 135; American Golden-eye and 

 White-crowned Sparrow in Northern Michigan in Summer, 135; 

 Lanius ludovicianus migrans in North Dakota, 136; Bohemian Wax- 



