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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII. 
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ine LyrnLe Brack Ram. By /. A. Allen. (Plate Il.) . : : I 
“ Tur Rurous HUMMINGBIRDS OF CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT. By 
William H. Kobbé. . : 8 
ON THE PERFECTED PLUMAGE OF THE KING ‘EIDER (Somateria 
spectabilis). By Arthur H. Norton. . 16 
RANGES oF Hylocichla fuscescens AND Hylocichla | “fuscescens salicicola 
iN NortH America. By Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. . : SLO 
A New WREN FROM ALASKA. By Harry C. Oberholser. . ey desis 
NEW SPECIES, ETC., OF AMERICAN Birps.— V. Corvip2. (Con- 
cluded.) By Robert Ridgway.  . : : : eer 
NEw SPECIES, ETC., OF AMERICAN BIRDS. aE ag FRINGILLIDZ. 
(Supplement.)+ By Robert Ridgway. . : a 1-20) 
Tue Conpitions GovERNING BirD LIFE IN ARIZONA. By Her- 
bert Brown. . 31 
Tue Moutt or NortH AMERICAN TETRAONID© (Qu: AILS, “PAR- 
TRIDGES, AND GROUSE). By jonathan Dwight, Jr,M. D. . 34 
REPORT oF THE A. QO. U. CoMMITTEE ON PROTECTION oF NORTH 
AMERICAN Birps. By Wtmer Stone. ; 51 
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ 
Union. By John H. Sage. . : : , : : : aso 
GENERAL NOTES. 
A Rare Record for Eastern Long Island, 63; Some Notes on the 
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), 63; The Occurrence of the 
Egyptian Goose in North America, 64; The Occurrence of Stel- 
ler’s Eider( 2xiconetta steller¢) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 655 
Pipile vs. Pipilo, 65; Stra vs. Aluco, 65; The ‘Churca’ 
(Geococcyx caltfornianus), 66; The Red-headed Woodpecker 
near Chicago, Ill., 67; Tree Swallows by the Million, 67 ; Intelli- 
gence of the Shrike, 68; The Bohemian Waxwing in Onondaga 
County, N. Y., 68; Date of Discovery and Type Locality of the 
Mountain Mockingbird, 68; Notes on Birds of Long Island, 69 ; 
Newfoundland Notes, 71. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Merriam’s Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, 73; Palmer’s ‘The 
Avifauna of Pribilof Islands,’ 74; Howe and Sturtevant’s‘ Birds of 
Rhode Island,’ 76; Newton’s ‘Dictionary of Birds,’ 77 ; Cory’s 
