CONTENTS 



Some Notes on the Drumming op the Ruffed Grouse. By H. E. Tuttle 



(Plate XI.) 



'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. Robbins .... 

 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 Loomis. (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, Florida. 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; Polyslicta versus Stellaria, 

 418; Megalestris versus Catharacta, 418; Destructive Invasion by an Australian 

 Rail, 418; Sarcidiomis 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 Bobo- 

 link, 430v 



Recent Literature. — 'A Practical Handbook of British Birds,' 432; Harris's 

 'Birds of the Kansas City Region,' 433; Baileys' 'Wild Animals of Glacier National 

 Park,' 434; Moseley's 'Trees, Stars and Birds,' 434; Miss Ball's 'A Year with the 

 Birds,' 435; Gilmore's 'Birds of Field, Forest and Park,' 436; Stephens on the Birds 

 of San Diego County, California, 437; Swarth on New Subspecies of Passerella 

 iliaca, 437 ; Annual Report of the State Ornithologist of Massachusetts, 438 ; Noble 

 on the Birds of Newfoundland, 438; Chubb on South American Birds, 438; The 

 Ornithological Journals, 439; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 442; Publi- 

 cations Received, -±44. 



Correspondence. — Further Note on Identifications (Characters versus Geography), 

 446. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Dr. Louis Brazil, 449; Frederick Bridgham McKechnie, 

 449; Organization of the American Society of Mammalogists, 451; Gaspe Bird Re- 

 serves in Quebec Province, 451 ; Correction on Townsend's ' Birds of Essex County,' 

 451; Birds in Museums of Warsaw, 451; New Species of African Birds, 452: New 

 Members of B. O. U., 452; Memorial to Salvin and Godman, 452; Oological Mu- 

 seums in California, 452 ; 'American Museum Journal,' 453 ; ' The Passenger Pigeon 

 in Pennsylvania, 453; Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the A. O. U., 453. 



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