CONTENTS 



A Revision of the Genus Eupsychortyx. By W. E. Clyde Todd. 



(Plates V-VI.) 189 



Observations on the Habits of Birds at Lake Burford, New Mexico. 



By Alexander Wetmore. (Plates VII-IX.) .... 221 



Additions to the Avifauna of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, Includ- 

 ing four Species new to North America. By G. Dallas Hanna 248 



Extracts from Notes made while in Naval Service. By W. T. Hel- 



muth ........... • 255 



The Plumage of Gulls in Relation to Age as Illustrated by the 

 Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) and Other Species. By 

 Jonathan Dwight, M. D. (Plates X-XIV.) .... 262 



The Subspecies of Branta canadensis (Linn.) By //. S. Swarth . 208 



Description of a New North American Duck. By Wharton Huber 273 



Fifth Annual List of Proposed Changes in the A. O. U. Check-List 



of North American Birds. By Harry C. Oberholser . . 274 



GENERAL Notes. — A Loon (Gavia immer) Caught on a Fishing Line, 286; Intestinal 

 Caeca in the Anhinga, 286; On the Nesting of the Black Duck in Ohio, 287; 

 The American and European Widgeon in Massachusetts, 288; Whistling Swan 

 (Olor columbianus) in Massachusetts, 289; Habits of the Two Black Ducks 

 (Anas rubripes and Anas ribripes tristis), 289; Flight of Water Fowl at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, 291. Nesting of the Greater Yellow-Legs in Newfoundland, 

 292; Nesting of the Little Black Rail in Atlantic County, N. J., 292; Maggots 

 in the Ears of Nestling Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperi) 293; Age attained 

 by the Hyacinth Macaw, 293; Curious Habits of the Whip-poor-will, 293; 

 Aeronautes melanoleucus (Baird) versus Aeronantes saxatalis (Woodhouse), 

 294; A New Name for Phaeochroa Gould, 295; Great Crested Flycatcher in 

 Massachusetts in Winter, 295; The Song of the Boat-tailed Grackle, 295; 

 Clark's Crow in Denver, 297; Another Occurrence of the Starling Near Mont- 

 gomery, Alabama, 298; A Flight of Newfoundland Crossbills, 298; Evening 

 Grosbeaks at Valley Falls, N. Y., 298; Evening Grosbeak at Brantingham, 

 Lewis Co., N. Y., 299; The Evening Grosbeak in Monte Vista, Colo., 299; 

 Some Sparrow Notes from Madison, Wisconsin, 299; Zonotrichia albicollis 

 again in Colorado, 300; The Proper Name of the West African Serin, 300; 

 The Louisiana Tanager in Massachusetts, 301 ; Bohemian Waxwing in Illinois, 

 301; The Yellow-throated Warbler in Central New York — A Correction, 302; 

 The Louisiana Water-Thrush Breeding at Graniteville, Aiken County, South 

 Carolina, 302; Elminia Bonaparte Preoccupied, 302; Toxostoma crissalis 

 versus Toxostoma dorsalis, 303; The Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe lencorhoa) in 

 Eastern Pennsylvania, 303; Additional Notes on the Birds of Red Deer, Al- 

 berta, 304; Buds of Irregular Occurrence on Long Island, 306; Rare and Un- 

 common Birds at Branchport, Yates Co., N. Y., 307; Unusual Winter Bird 

 Records for Iowa City, Iowa, 308; Notes on Winter Birds of the Missouri 

 Ozarks, 309; Mesa County, Colo., Notes, 310; Some North American Birds 

 Obtained in Japan, 311; The Color of Natal Down in Passerine Birds; 312; 

 Birds and Tent Caterpillars, 312. 



RECENT LITERATURE.— Baldwin's 'Bird Banding by Means of Systematic Trapping,* 

 314; Chapman on New South American Birds, 315; Cory's 'Catalogue of Birds 

 of the Americas', 315; Witherby's 'Handbook of British Birds,' 316; A Geo- 

 graphical Bibliography of British Ornithology, 317; Annual Report of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 317; Bulletin of the Essex County 

 Ornithological Club, 318; Hollister's Account of the National Zoo, 319; Cory's 

 Review of the Genus Rhvnchocyclus, 319; Recent Papers by Bangs and Pen- 

 ard, 320; Van Oort's 'Birds of Holland,' 320; Kirk Swann's 'Synoptical List 

 of the Accopitres', 321; Dr. Shufeldt's Bibliography, 321; Stuart Baker on 

 Egg Collecting and its Objects, 321; Economic Ornithology in Recent Ento- 

 mological Publications, 322; Pine-seed Eaters in British Garhwal, 325; The 

 Ornithological Journals, 325; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 334; 

 Additional Publications Received, 338. 



CORRESPONDENCE.— An "Occult Food Sense" in Birds, 339; The Search for Food by 

 Birds, 341; Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle America, Vol. VIII,' 344. 



Notes AND News.— Obituary: James Mellville Macoun, 346; A. O. U. Committee on 

 Classification and Nomenclature, 346; Migratory Bird Treaty, 347; Bird 

 Reservations, 347; Modification in Federal Regulations, 347; Pacific North- 

 west Bird and Mammal Club, 347; Complete Sets of 'The Auk,' 348; The Wilson 

 Ornithological Club, 352; Correction, 352; Errata, 352. 



