CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVI. 



NUMBER I. 



The Birds of the Red Deer River, Alberta. By P. A. Taverner 

 (Plates I-IV.) 



The Hawaiian Elepaio. By Vaughan MacCaughey . 



Further Notes on New Brunswick Birds. By P. B. Philipp 

 and B. S. Bowdish. (Plates V-VI.) .... 



Winter Birds of East Goose Creek, Florida. By R. W. Wil- 

 liams .......... 



Notes on the Summer Birds of the Upper Yukon Region 

 Alaska. By Eliot Blackwelder ..... 



Notes on Some Birds of the Okanagan Valley, British Colum- 

 bia. By /. A. Munro 



Description of a New Subspecies of Piranga hepatica Swain 

 son. By Harry C. Oberholser ...... 



Notes on North American Birds. VII. By Harry C. Oberholser 



Description of a New Seaside Sparrow from Florida. By 

 Arthur H. Howell ........ 



Descriptions of New Birds from South America. By Charles 

 B. Cory 



Thirty-sixth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists 

 Union. By T. S. Palmer 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



Further Notes on the "Fishy" Flavor of Birds, 100; Egrets (Herodias 

 egretta) in Northern New Jersey, 101 ; Brooding Habit of the American 

 Coot, 102; Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus) in Wyoming, 

 102; Notes on Migratory AnatincB and LimicoloB from Western New 

 York, 102; Spring Shore-birds in Connecticut, 104; Killdeer (Oxyechus 

 vociferus) Nesting in West Haven, Conn., 105; Mourning Doves 

 Sharing a Robin Roost, 106; Duck Hawks Wintering in the Center 

 of Philadelphia, 108; A Note of the Long-eared Owl (Asio wilsonianus) , 

 109; The Short-eared Owl in Massachusetts in Summer, 109; On 

 Brotogeris ferrugineifrons Lawrence, 110; Arctic Three- toed Wood- 

 pecker (Picoides arcticus) at Belmont, Mass., 110; The Song of the 

 Blue Jay, 111 ; The ^Esthetic Sense in Birds as Illustrated in the Crow, 

 112; Proper Name of the Tree Sparrow, 114; The Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak in Connecticut in November, 114; Zamelodia versus 

 Hedymeles, 115; Rough-winged Swallow, Unusual Nesting Sites, 

 115; Late Nesting of the Red-eyed Vireo in Detroit, Mich., 115; 

 Local Decrease of Warblers in 1917, 116; The Name "erythrogaster," 

 and Others, 116; Waterton on Bird Song, 118; Correction, 118. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Beebe's 'Monograph of the Pheasants,' 119; Leo Miller's 'In the Wilds of 

 South America,' 125; Van Oort's Birds of the Netherlands, 127; 

 Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 129; Beebe's 'Jungle Peace,' 

 130; Riley on a Collection of Birds from Northeastern Siberia, 131; 



