CONTENTS 



Limicoline Voices. By John Treadwell Nichols 519 



Summer Bird Records from Lake County, Minnesota. By Charles 



Eugene Johnson 541 



In the Haunts of Cairns' Warbler. By C. W. G. Eifrig .... 551 



Pattern Development in Teal. By Glover M. Allen 558 



Notes on the Birds of Southeastern North Carolina. By Eduard 



Fleisher 565 



Migration and Physical Proportions. A Preliminary Study. By 



C. K. Averill 572 



General Notes. — Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) Breeding in Virginia, 579; Egret 

 in South Orleans, Mass., 579; The Louisiana Heron {Hydranassa tricolor rufi- 

 collis) at Cape May, N. J., 580; The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) on the 

 New Jersey Coast, 580; Marbled Godwit on Long Island, N. Y., 581; The 

 Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus) in Nova Scotia, 581; The 

 Willet in Nova Scotia, 582; Breeding of the Semipalmated Plover (Aegialilis 

 semipalmata) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, 583; The Cowbird's Whistle, 

 584; Dance of the Purple Pinch, 584; Breeding of the Evening Grosbeak in 

 Manitoba, 585; A Change in the Nesting Habits of the Common House Sparrow 

 (Passer domesticus), 586; Notes on the Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Passer- 

 herbulus nelsoni subvirgatus) , 587; Notable Warblers Breeding Near Aiken, 

 S. C., 589; The Yellow-throa.ted Warbler (Dendroica dominica dominica) at 

 Cape May, N. J., 591; The Black-poll Warbler and Bicknell's Thrush at Yar- 

 mouth, Nova Scotia, 591; The Summer Resident Warblers (Mniotiltidae) of 

 Northern New Jersey, 592; A Peculiarly Marked Example of Dumetella caro- 

 lincnsis, 593; The Hudsonian Chickadee in New Jersey, 593; The Plain Tit- 

 mouse, a New Bird for Oregon, 594; The Singing of the Ruby- crowned Kinglet 

 (Regulus c. calendula), 594; Notes from Seal Island, Nova Scotia, 596; Some 

 Summer Residents of Dutchess County, N. Y., 597; Bird Notes from Collins, 

 N. Y., 598; Additions to the 'Birds of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Mary- 

 land, 598; Rare and Unusual Birds in the Chicago Area During the Spring of 

 1920, 600; Items Relative to Some Costa Rican Birds, 601; Observations of a 

 Remarkable Night Migration, 604. 



Recent Literature. — Townsend's 'Supplement to Birds of Essex County,' 606; 

 Bannerman's 'Birds of the Canary Islands,' 607; Mathews' 'The Birds of 

 Australia," 609; Leavitt's 'Bird Study in Elementary Schools,' 609; Hudson's 

 Recent Bird Books, 610; 'Aves' in the Zoological Record for 1917, 611; Strese- 

 mann's 'Avifauna Macedonica,' 611; Wood on the Eyes of the Burrowing Owl, 

 612; Murphv on the Seacoast and Islands of Peru, 613; Dr. Shufeldt's Bibli- 

 ography, 613; Birds of the National Parks, 614; Game Laws for 1920, 614; 

 Peters on a New Jay, 615; Chapman on Ostinops decumanus, 615; Lonnberg 

 on 'The Birds of the Juan Fernandez and Easter Island,' 615; Geographical 

 Bibliography of British Ornithology, 616; Spring Migration Notes of the Chicago 

 Area, 616; Nomenclature of the Birds of Bavaria, 617; Van Cleve's 'Acantho- 

 cephala of the Canadian Arctic Expedition,' 618; Economic Ornithology in 

 Recent Entomological Publications. 619; The Bird Interest in Iowa Lakes, 

 620; Bird Liming in Lower Egypt, 621; The Ornithological Journals, 622; Orni- 

 thological Articles in Other Journals, 631; Additional Publications Received, 

 633. 



CORRESPONDENCE. — Popular Bird Names, 634; Baker on the Birds of the Pleistocene, 

 634. 



NOTES AND News. — Obituary Notices: William Dutcher, 636; Herbert H. Smith, 

 637; Nicholas Alexievich Sarudny, 638; Frederick W. Headley, 638; Henry K. 

 Oliver, 639; John H. Flanagan, 639; Robert L. Maitland, 640; Note on Biog- 

 raphy of Ludwig Kumlein, 640; Government Publications of Birds, 640; Orni- 

 thology of the Twentieth Century, 640; Meeting of the Swiss Society for Bird 

 Study, 641; Meeting of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, 641; 

 Gilbert White bicentenary, 641; Rollo H. Beck, personal mention, 641; The 

 Washington Meeting of the A. O. U., 641. 



