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In Memokiam: George Newbold Lawrence. By D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E. (Frontispiece.) . i 



The Standing of Ardetta neoxena. By Frank M. Chapman. (Plate I.) . . . n 



An Important Factor in the Study of Western Bird-Life. By Carl. F. Baker. . 20 



The Pine Grosbeak in Captivity. By 0. "'• Knig/it. 21 



Descriptions of an Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Ptarmigan FROM THE 



Aleutian Islands. By D.G. Elliot, F. R. S. E. (Plate III.) 24 



Songs of the Western Meadowlakk. By L. Belding. 29 



A New Subspecies of the Genus Dryobates. By A. W.Anthony 31 



Description of a New Jay from Mexico. By Gerr -it S. Miller, Jr. 34 



Nesting Habits ok Phainopepla nitetis in California. By Florence A. Merriam. . . 3S 



Descriptions OF a New Warbler and a New Sum, Sparrow. By William Brewster. 44 



The Terns of Miskec.et Island. Massachusetts. Part II. By George H. Mac kay. . 47 



Thirteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. By John H. Sage. . 55 



Recent Literature. — Elliot's Monograph of the Pittidae, 60: The Fossil Birds of Patagonia, 61; 

 Elliot's Limkol.v, 64 ; Some Canadian Birds, 67 ; Kirkwood on Maryland Birds, 07 : The Structure 

 and Life of Birds, 68; The A. 0. U, Check-List of North American Birds, Second Edition, 69; 

 Hudson's British Birds. 70: Beudire on the Cowbirds, 71 ; Lucas on the Weapons and Wings of 

 Birds, 72 : Fisher's Hawks and Owls from the Standpoint of the Farmer, 73 ; Beddard's ' Text-book 

 of Zoogeography,' 73 : Townsend on the Birds of Cocos Island, 75 ; Publications Received, 76. 



GENERAL Notes.— Do Young Loons e.it Fresh-water Clams? 77; 'Cull Dick' Again, 7S : An Early 

 Description of Phalacrocoriix dilophus, ;S ; Another Harlequin Duck Record for Long Island, 7S; 

 Olor buccinator in Western Minnesota. 7S ; White-faced Glossy Ibis Breeding in Minnesota, 79; 

 Ardetta neoxena from Wisconsin, 79; The Ring Rail Again in Maine, 79; Baird's Sandpiper in 

 Maine, So: The 1895 Migration of Charadrim dominions in Massachusetts, 80; Habits of the Valley 

 Partridge, 81 ; Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migrator ius) in Wisconsin 

 and Illinois, 81; The Golden Eagle in New Jersey, 81; The Golden Eagle in Maine, 82; A New 

 Long Island, N Y., Record for the Red-bellied Woodpecker. 82; The Deltoid Muscle in the Swifts. 

 82; The Ncissor-tailed Flycatcher in Virginia and Maryland, 83: The Raven in Illinois, 83; The 

 Ipswich Sparrow — A Correction, 84 : Second Occurrence of the Lark Sparrow^ in Virginia, 84 ; The 

 Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina) in the Maritime Portions of South Carolina, 84; The Caro- 

 lina Wreii in Connecticut, 84: The Red-breasted Nuthatch iSilta canadensis) on Long Island, 

 South Carolina, 84 ; The Dwarf Thrush in Colorado, 85; Food of Woodpeckers and Flycatchers, 

 85 ; Rare Visitors to the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts in 1895, 86 ; A Correction, 86 ; 

 Not,- on Long Island Birds. 87; Nantucket Island Notes. 88; Gatke's Birds of Heligoland, 89. 



Correspondence — The Soaring of Birds and Currents of Air, 92. 



Notes and News.— Obituary, Thomas Henry Huxley, 113: Henry Seebohm, 96; Henry T. Wharton, 

 ,7: Ornithological Lectures at Columbia Collegi, 97; Kent Ornithological Club, 98: Protection 

 of North American Birds. 98. 



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