Contents of Volume XIII. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Dr. Willard Lorraine Maris. [93; The Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological Club, 193; The Michigan Ornithological Club, 194; 

 \ru Edition of Ridgway's ' Manual of North American Birds,' 

 194; 'The Feather,' 195 ; The Seebohm collection of Birds, 195 ; 

 The Field Columbian Museum Expedition to Africa, i</>. 



NUMBER III. 



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Tup: Dicks of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. By Her- 

 bert A". Job 197 



John Abbot's Drawings of the Birds of Georgia. By Walter 



Faxon. ........... 204 



The Peninsula of Missouri as a Winter Home for 15iki>s. 



Bv O. Widmann. . . . . ■ . ■ ■ ■ . 216 



The Black-vented Shearwater {Puffinas opistkomelas). By A. 



W. Anthony. . . . . . . . ■ . ■ • --3 



Recent Observations on Histrionicus histrionicus in Maim:. By 



Arthur II. Norton. ......... 229 



Some Notes on the Passenger Pigeon {Ectopistes migratorius) 



in Confinement. By Rutkven Drone. .... 234 



Notes on the Birds of Bermuda. By D. Webster Prentiss. . 237 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Stone on the Molting of Birds, 240; Stone on Birds collected in North 

 Greenland, 243; Shalow on a Collection of Birds from West 

 Greenland, 243 ; Rotzell's Birds of Narberth, Pa., and Vicinity, 244 ; 

 Rhoads's List of Tennessee Birds, 244: Short's Birds of Western 

 \ru York. 245: A List of Nebraska Birds, 245; Cory's 'Hunting 

 and Fishing in Florida.' with 'A Key to the Water Birds of the 

 State,' 240; Howe's 'Every Bird,' 247; Artistic and Scientific Tax- 

 idermy, 247 ; Witchell's ' Evolution of Bird Sony," 249; Ilarvie 

 Brown and Buckley's ' A Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin,' 

 251; The 'Birds' of the Royal Natural History, 252; Publica- 

 tions Recen ed, 253. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Name of the Large-billed Puffin, 233 ; Record of a Fourth Specimen 

 of the European Widgeon {Anas fenelope ) in Indiana, 253 ; Recenl 

 Occurrence of the Florida Gallinule in Southern Maine, 255; 

 Baird's Sandpiper in Michigan, 233; The Belted Piping Plover 

 in Massachusetts. 256; Discovery of the Eggs of the Belted I'ip 

 ing Plover, 2^(>; Recent Capture of the Golden Eagle near Port 

 land. Maine. 2^(1: Golden Eagles in Virginia, 2^<<; Nidification of 

 the Dusky Horned Owl, 237: Four Winter Records of the Short- 

 eared Owl on the Massachusetts Coast, 257 ; The Road-runner as 

 a Rat-killer, 237 ; The Red-headed Woodpecker in Eastern Massa 

 chusetts, 258; Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus in Los Angeles 

 County, Cal., 258; Intergradation in Sony of Sturnella mag?ia 

 and .V. in. neglecta in Missouri, 258; Pinicola, etiucleator at Wor- 



