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Tue Ivory-BILLED WooDPECKER IN LouistaANa. By Geo. E. Beyer. 4 : rae _ 97 
Care oF Nest anp YounG. By Francis H. Herrick. (Plates II and III.) 5 - “ roo 
Nores oN SomME oF THE Birps oF British CotumBia. By Allan Brooks. 5 r = S 104 
ARGUMENT AGAINST THE BANNER MarK Tueory. By Aédbdott H. Thayer. . - s “ 108 
DEscripTIONS OF THREE New Brrps From ALASKA. By Louis B. Bishop, M.D. 0) Heit 113 
DerscrieTion OF A New Supspectes oF Meleagris gallofavo AND PROPOSED CHANGES IN 
THE NOMENCLATURE OF CERTAIN NorTH AMERICAN Birps. By £. W. Nelson. . - 120 
A Review oF THE THREE-TOED Woopreckers OF NortTH America. By Outram Bangs. . 126 
THE Moutt or THE NorTH AMERICAN TETRAONID& (QUAILS, PARTRIDGES, AND GROUSE). 
By Jonathan Dwight, Jr. (Plates lV and V.) (Concluded from p. 5r.) - 4s Beary 3 
FurTHER Notes on Lacf&pEpe’s ‘TABLEAUX.’ By Charles W. Richmond. F 5 a ° 166 
GENERAL Notas. — Note on the Genus Micruria, 168; Some Notes on the Herring Gull (Larus argen- 
tatus), 169; Ring-billed Gull in New Hampshire, 169; The Cinnamon Teal in Louisiana, 170; An 
Interesting Hybrid, 170; The Roseate Spoonbill in Kansas, 171; Breeding of the Little Black Rail 
(Porzana jamaicensis) at Raleigh, North Carolina, 171; Breeding of the Little Black Rail (Porzana 
Jamaicensis)in New Jersey in 1844 and 1845, 1723; Occurrence of Tringa fuscicollis in Virginia in 
‘Autumn, 172; A Further Note on the Specific Name of Falco regulus, 173; The Arctic Three-toed 
Woodpecker in Beverly, Mass., 173; The Earliest Name for the Roadrunner, 173; The Red-headed 
and Other Woodpeckers in Michigan in Winter, 174; The Flicker Wintering in Montreal, 174; 
Chuck-will’s-widow in Kansas, 175: Ofocoris alpestris praticola at Ipswich, Mass., 175; The Red 
Crossbill unusually common at Portland, Maine, in Summer, 175; White-winged Crossbills in Rhode 
Island, 175; White-winged Crossbills and Briinnich’s Murres in Central New Hampshire, 175; 
Ontario Bird Notes, 176; New Brunswick Notes, 177; Bird News from Central New York, 177; 
Some Necessary Changes in Nomenclature, 178; An Interesting Bit of Manuscript, 179. « 
Recent LiIrerRATuRE. — Keeler’s ‘ Bird Notes Afield,’ 180; Russell on Birds of the Northwest Terri- 
tory, r8r; Loomis on California Water Birds, 182; Stone on the Summer Molting Plumage of Cer- 
tain Ducks, 163; Stone ona New Race of Short-eared Owl, 184; Bangs on Colombian Birds, 184; 
Chapman on New Birds from Venezuela, etc., 184; Chapman on Birds from Greenland, 185 ; Oberhol- 
ser on the Flammulated Screech Owls, 186; Oberholser on a Collection of Birds from Liberia, 186; 
New Birds from the Bahamas, 187; Kopman on the Bird Fauna of Two Sections of Louisiana, 187; 
Faxon and Hoffmann’s Birds of Berkshire County, Mass., 187; ‘ Birds in Horticulture,’ 188; Stark’s 
Birds of South Africa, 189; Publications Received, rgo. 
Nores anp News. — Obituary: — George B. Sennett, 193; W. E. Brooks, 194; Francis C. Browne, 
194; John A. Dakin, 196; Foster H. Brackett, 197; Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 197; 
Recent Bird Protection Work, 198. 
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