Contents of Volume XXXVI. ix 



Additions to the Collection of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 589; Bird Notes from Collins, Erie Co., N. Y., 589; Additions to 

 'The Birds of Liberty County Ga.,' 590; Data on the Age of Birds, 591. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Bent's 'Life Histories of North American Diving Birds,' 593; Ridgway's 

 'The Birds of North and Middle America, Part VIII,' 595; Witherby's 

 'A Practical Handbook of British Birds' 597; Robertson Minnesota 

 Birds, 598; Second Ten Year Index to The Condor, 598; Riley on 

 New Birds from Celebes and Java, 599; Chubb on South American 

 Birds, 599; Lonnberg on Hybrid Gulls, 599; Recent Papers by Ober- 

 holser, 600; Captain S. A. White's Explorations in Australia, 600; 

 Bangs and Penard's 'Critical Bird Notes,' 601; Cassinia for 1918, 602; 

 Gladstone's 'Birds and the War,' 602; Mathew's 'The Birds of Aus- 

 tralia,' 603; Wetmore on Lead Poisoning in Waterfowl, 605; French's 

 'The Passenger in Pennsylvania,' 605; Economic Ornithology and 

 Bird Protection, 606; Report of the National Zoological Park, 607; 

 Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society, 607 ; The Meaning 

 of Natural Control, 608; An Essay on Crows, 609; Two Papers on 

 African Economic Ornithology, 609; Report on the Economic Value 

 of Eight British Birds, 610; The Ornithological Journals, 610; Ornitho- 

 logical Articles in Other Journals, 617. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Permits to Collect Birds for Scientific Purposes in Canada, 621; Captain 

 Thomas Brown's 'Illustrations of the American Ornithology of Wilson 

 and Bonaparte,' 623; Feeding of Grackles 627. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary Notices — William Brewster, 628; M. Namiye, 628; Merrill" 

 Willis Blain, 629; Leo Wiley, 629; Indexes to Ornithological Litera- 

 ture — Journals, 630; Where American Ornithologists Rest, 631;. 

 Complete Sets of 'The Auk,' 634; The Smithsonian African Expedi- 

 tion, 634; Annual Meeting of the A. O. U., 635. 



Index ........ 



Errata ........ 



Dates of Issue 



Officers of the A. O. U. Past and Present 

 Council " " " « « « 



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Officers and Members .... 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plates. 



Plate I. Little Sandhill Creek, Alberta. 



II. Red Deer River below Nevis, Alberta. 

 III. Camp near Red Deer, Alberta. Nests of Cliff Swallows, 

 and Prairie Falcon. Two views. 



