Contents of Volume XXXVI. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Frederick DuCane Godman, 319; Robert Day Hoyt, 319; 

 The Mailliard Collection, 320; Recent Expeditions, 321; The Flem- 

 ming Collection, 321; Rare Birds in the Philadelphia Zoo, 321; 

 Meeting of the R. A. O. U., 322; U. S. National Museum Collection, 

 322; A. O.U. Check-List, 322; New National Parks, 322; Geographic 

 Distribution of A. O. U. Membership, 323; The Migratory Bird Law, 

 323; The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 323; Common Names 

 of Birds, 324; Birds of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, 324. 



NUMBER III. 



Some Notes on the Drumming of the Ruffed Grouse. By H. E 



Tuttle. (Plate XL) 



"The Singing Tree," or How near to the Nest do the Male 



Birds Sing? By H. Mousley 



The Early History of a Duck Hawk. By Viola F. Richards 



(Plates XII-XIII.) 



A Colony of Cape Cod Piping Plover. By C. A. Bobbins 

 Black Duck Nesting in Boston Public Garden. By Horace W 



Wright .......... 



Three Interesting Great Horned Owls from New England 



By Glover M. Allen ....... 



Variation in the Galapagos Albatross. By Leverett Mills 



Loornis. (Plates XIV-XVI.) 



Audubon's Bibliography. By Francis H. Herrick 



Some Summer Birds of Liberty County, Georgia. By W. J 



Erichsen .......... 



A Three Months' List of the Birds of Pinellas County, Flor- 

 « ida. By Major Clifford H. Pangburn .... 



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

 The Geographic Races of Hedymeles melanocephalus Swainson 



By Harry C. Oberholser 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



The Generic Name of the Gannets, 417; Polysticta versus Stellaria, 418; 

 Megalestris versus Catharacta, 418; Destructive Invasion by an Aus- 

 tralian Rail, 418; Sarcidiornis sylvicola in Venezuela, 419; Occurrence 

 of the Red Phalarope in Pennsylvania, 419; The Status of the Genus 

 Archibuteo Brehm, 420; Golden Eagle at East Moriches, N. Y., 421; 

 Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker at Southampton, Mass., 421; Blue 

 Jay again in Jefferson Co., Colorado, 422; Song of the Canada Jay, 

 422; Evening Grosbeak in New Jersey, 423; The Pine Grosbeak 

 (Pinicola enucleator leucura) in Northwestern New Jersey, 423; 

 Early Occurrence of the Red-breasted Nuthatch in New Jersey, 423; 

 The Range of the Short-tailed Mountain Chickadee {Penthestes 

 gambeli abbreviatus Grinnell), 424; Note on Audubon's Labrador Trip, 

 424; Destruction of Sea Birds in Labrador, 427; Specific Names in 

 the Nominative Case, 427; Editions of Baird, Cassin and Lawrence's 

 'Birds of North America,' 428; Observations on the Shifting Range, 

 Migration and Economic Value of the Bobolink, 430. 



