CONTENTS 



Notes on Some American Ducks. By Allan Brooks. (Plates XV- 



XVI.) 353 



Relative Abundance of Wild Ducks at Delavan, Wisconsin. By 



N. Hollister 367 



Recollections op Audubon Park. By George Bird Grinnell (Plates 



XVII-XVIII 372 



Courtship in Birds. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D 380 



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



By Alexander Wetmore 393 



Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Rusty Blackbird in Northern 



New England. By Fred H. Kennard. (Plates XIX-XX) . 412 



The Genera of Ceryline Kingfishers. By Waldron DeWitt Miller. 422 



Ontario Bird Notes. By J. H. Fleming and Hoyes Lloyd .... 429 



Seventeenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union 



Check-list of North American Birds 439 



General Notes. — Notes on the Black-crowned Night Heron in Western New York, 

 449; Bittern Displaying its White Nuptial Plumage, 450; The Knot in Mon- 

 tana, 451; Tringa Auct. versus Calidris Anon., 451; Early Virginia Rail in New 

 York, 452; Least Flvcatcher in Michigan in April, 453; A New Name for Anair- 

 etes Reichenbach, 453; A Raven Pellet, 453; The Purple Grackle at Albany, 

 Georgia, 454; Note on the Generic Names Schiffornis Bonaparte and Scoto- 

 thorus Oberholser, 454; Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina) in Minne- 

 sota in Midsummer, 455; Evening Grosbeaks Common at Lakewood, N. J., 

 456; Evening Grosbeaks at Princeton, N. J., 456; The Newfoundland Cross- 

 bill in the Washington Region, 456; White- winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) 

 in West Virginia, 457; An Erroneous Kansas Record for Baird's Sparrow, 457; 

 A Scarlet Tanager at -Thirty-fourth Street, New York, 458; Bohemian Wax- 

 wing at Seattle, Washington, During the Winter of 1919-1920, 458; Bohemian 

 Waxwing at Salem, Mo., 460; Bohemian Waxwing 'Bomby cilia garrirfa) at 

 Rochester, N. Y., 461; Bohemian Waxwing at Rochester, N. Y., 462; Autumnal 

 Stay of the Parula Warbler in Maine, 462; The Blue-winged Warbler (Vermi- 

 vora pinus) on the Coast of South Carolina, 462; Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia 

 citrina) at Detroit, Michigan, 463; Pcnlhestcs hudsonicus hudsonicus in North 

 Dakota, 463; Labrador Brown-capped Chickadee {Penthestes hudsonicus nigri- 

 cans) at Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y., 463; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in the 

 Boston Public Garden, 464; The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptilla caerulea 

 caerulca) at Quebec, P. Q., 464; The Russet-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustu- 

 lata ustulata) Taken near Charleston, S. C, 465; Remarkable Migration of 

 Robins, 466; Some Rare Birds for Yates County, N. Y., 466; Notes from 

 Springfield, Mass., 467; Notes from St. Louis, Mo., 467; Merrem's Beytrage, 

 468; Erratum, 468. 



RECENT LITERATURE.— Mathews' ' Check-List of the Birds of Australia. Part 1,' 469; 

 Mathews' 'Birds of Australia,' 470; MacGregor's 'Index to the Genera of Buds,' 

 471- Witherby's 'Handbook of British Birds,' 472; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der 

 Palaarktishen Fauna,' 472; Chapman's 'What Bud is That?,' 473; Horsfall on 

 the Habits of the Sage Grouse, 474 ; Kirk Swann's ' Synoptical List of the Accipi- 

 tres ' 475; Bibliography of British Ornithology, 475; Brook's 'The Buzzard at 

 Homo ' 475; The Nebraska Waterfowl and their Food, 476; Bartsch on the 

 Bird Rookeries of the Tortugas, 476; Bangs and Penard on Two New American 

 Hawks 477; Kuroda on New Japanese Pheasants, 477; Freeman's 'Bud Calen- 

 dar for the Fargo Region; 478; Grinnell on the English Sparrow in Death Val- 

 ley 478' Rowan and Others on the Nest and Eggs of the Common Tern, 479 

 Report of the National Zoological Park, 480; Ornithology of the Princeton 

 Patagonian Expedition, 480; Nicoll's Handlist of the Birds of Egypt, 481; 

 Sachtleben on Goldfinches, 481; Carter's 'Shooting in Early Days,' 482; Re- 

 cent Publications on Conservation and Education, 482; A Fascicle of Papers on 

 British Economic Ornithologv, 483; The Ornithological Journals, 485; Ornith- 

 ological Articles in other Journals, 494; Additional Publications Received, 497. 



CORRESPONDENCE.— A. O. U. Luncheons, 498; Popular Nomenclature. 499; Precellaria 

 vittata Forster is not Halobaena Gmelin, 505. 



NOTES AND NEWS.— Obituary Notice: Frank Slater Daggett, 508; Horace Winslow 

 Wright 509- Thomas McAdory Owen, 510; Charles Gordon Hewitt, 511; 

 Johan Axel Palraen, 511; Bird Banding 512; The Permanent Funds of the A. O. 

 U 513- Annual Meeting of the B. O. U., 514,; Annual Meeting of the R. A. 

 o"u 515- Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for the Study and Protection 

 of' Birds 516; American Fossil Buds, 516; Handwriting of Ornithologists, 516; 

 Distribution of Ornithologists, 517; Personal Mention, W. H. Osgood, 517; 

 Alexander Wetmore, 517; James L. Peters, 517; Washington Meeting of the 

 A. O. U., 517. 



