New SpEcigs, ETC., OF AMERICAN Brrps.— V. Corvip#. (Concluded.) By Robert Ridgway. = 
Recent Literature. — Merriam’s Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, 73; Palmer’s ‘The Avifauna of 
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CONTENTS oo. 
Tue Litrre Brack Raw. By /.A. Alen. (Plate 1.) . 5 Aa ae Bee Ss 
THE Rurous Hummincsrrps oF Care DisaproinTMENT. By William H. Kobbé. . . z 
On THE PERFECTED PLUMAGE OF THE KinG E1DER (Somateria sfectabilis). By Arthur H. 
Norton. . : A 5 > Z : : : rk S 3 . ., SP ares 
Rances or Hylocichla fuscescens aNd Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola 1% NorTH AMERICA. 
By Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. . = = - A = 
A New Wren From AvasKka. By Harry C. Oberholser. : 5 wi et : 
New Species, Erc., OF AMERICAN Birps.— VI. FRINGILLID#. (Supplement.) By Rodert 
Ridgway. = ‘ * 3 ‘ : - - f : eke 4 ; tS Son cemee 
Tue Conpirrons GoverninG Birp Lire 1n Arizona. By Herbert Brown. : pp Scee : 
Tue Movuit or NortH AMERICAN TETRAONID (QUAILS, PARTRIDGES, AND GROUSE). By 
Jonathan Dwight. Jr., M.D. 3 " ‘ ‘ y 2 5 . 
ReporRT OF THE A. @. U. CommiITTER ON PROTECTION OF NorTH AMERICAN Brirps. By 
Witmer Stone. . 5 5 ; 5 i at 
SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Unrton. By John H. Sage. . 58 
Generat Notrs.— 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 Occur-— oe 
rence of Steller’s Eider (Zviconetta stelleri) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 65; Pifile vs. Pipilo.65; 
Strix vs. Aluco, 65; The ‘Churca’ (Geococcyx californianus), 66; The Red-headed Woodpecker — 
near Chicago, Ill., 67; Tree Swallows by the Million, 67; Intelligence of the Shrike, 68; The Bohe- 
mian Waxwing in Onondaga County, N. Y., 68; Date of Discovery and Type Locality of the Moun- 
tain Mockingbird, 68; Notes on Birds of Long Island, 69; Newfoundland Notes, 71. 
Pribilof Islands,’ 74; Howe and Sturtevant’s ‘ Birds of Rhode Island,’ 76; Newton’s ‘ Dictionary of 
Birds,’ 77; Cory’s ‘The Birds of Eastern North America. Part II. Land Birds,’ 78; Avium Gen- 
erum Index Alphabeticus, 78; Sharpe’s ‘ Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds,’-79; — 
Dubois’s ‘ Synopsis Avium,’ 81; Salvadori and Festa on Birds of Ecuador, 81; Bangs on Birds from ~ 
the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 82; Pearson’s Preliminary List of Birds of Chapel 
Hill, N.C., 82; Kellogg’s List of Biting Lice (Mallophaga) taken from North American Birds and 
Mammals, 82; Thompson on the Cranial Osteology of the Parrots, 84; Lange’s ‘Our Native Birds, — 
How to Protect Them and Attract Them to Our Homes,’ 84; Macpherson’s ‘ History of Fowling,’ — 
85; Mrs. Wright’s ‘ Wabeno, the Magician,’ 86; Bumpus on the ‘ Elimination of the Unfit,’ 87; _ 
Whitman on ‘ Animal Behavior,’ 87; Publications Received, 89. Sone 
Notes anp News.— Obituary — Dr. Elliott Coues, 91; Dr. D. Webster Prentiss, 91; W. W. Colburn, 
92; A Research Fund for Ornithology, 92; New Publications, 93; Ornithological Journals, 93; : 
Bird Destruction for Millinery Purposes, 94; Alleged Sources of Egret Plumes, 95. - ° ee 
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