CONTENTS 



The Birds of the Red Deer River , Alberta. By P. A. Taterner. (Plates 



I-IV.) 1 



The Hawaiian Elepaio. By Vaugkan MacCaughey . . ' . . . 22 



Further Notes on New Brunswick Birds. By P. B. Philipp and B. S. Bozodish 



(Plates V-VI.) :w 



Winter Birds of East Goose Creek, Florida. By R. W. Williams , 45 



Notes on the Summer Birds of the Upper Yukon Region, Alaska. By Eliot 



Blackwelder ............. 57 



Notes on Some Birds of the Okanagan Vallet , British Columbia. By /. A. 



Munro .............. 64 



Description of a New Species of Piranga hepatica Swainson. By Harry C. 



Oberholser ..... ....... 74 



Notes on North American Birds. VII. By Harry C. Oberholser ... 81 



Description of a New Seaside Sparrow from Florida. By Arthur H. Howell . S6 



Descriptions of New Birds from South America. By Charles B. Cory . . 88 



Thirty-sixth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



T. S. Palmer ■. . 90 



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 

 Anatinm and Limicolm from Western New York, 102; Snring Shore-birds in Con- 

 necticut, 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 Woodpecker (Picoides arclicus) 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 ; Shufeldt on the Skeleton of the Kea Parrot, 

 131; Murphy's Photographs of South Georgia Birds, 132; Taverner's Recent Papers 

 on Canadian Birds, 132; 'Aves' in the Zoological Record, 133; Proceedings of the 

 Linnaean Society of New York, 133; Annual Report of the National Association of 

 Audiibon Societies, 134; Zimmer on Rare Birds from Luzon and Mindoro, 135; 

 Recent Papers by Wetmore, 135; Five Contributions to Economic Ornithology by 

 Collinge, 136; Chapman's 'Our Winter Birds,' 137; The Ornithological Journals, 

 138; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 144; Publications Received, 144. 

 Correspondence — Maggot Infested Birds. 147; Evolution of Bird Song, 149; Australia's 



Effort to Save her Bird Fauna, 151. 

 Notes and News. — Changes in the A. O. U. Check-List, 152; Obituary: Walter Free- 

 man McMahon, 153; Douglas Clifford Mabbott, 153; Prof. David Ernest Lantz, 154; 

 Check Lists, 155; Paintingsof Extinct Birds, 157; Matthews Collection of Australian 

 Birds, 157; Account of the A. O. U., 157; Retirement of W. Ogilvie-Grant, 157; 

 The Ottawa Naturalist, 157; The Chicago Ornithological Society, 158; Paintings 

 Illustrating Camouflage, 158; A Supplement to Townsend's 'Birds of Essex County' 

 Mass., 15S; Alleged Occurrence of Passenger Pigeons, 158; Called to the Colors, 158. 



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