CONTENTS 



The Tennessee Warbler in New Brunswick. By B. S. Bowdish and P. B 



Philipp. (Plate I) 



The Courtship of the Merganser, Mali-ard, Black Duck, Baldpate, Wood 



Duck and Bufflehead. By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. 

 Rhythmical Singing of Veeries. By Henry Oldys ..... 

 Two Problems in the Migration of Water Fowl. By Joh7i C. Phillips . 

 A Study of the Seasonal Decline of Bird Song. By Henry J. Fry . 

 The Discovery of the Nest and Eggs of Leucosticte ajistralis. By F. C. Lincoln 



(Plate II) 



A Collection of Birds from Saghalin Island. By John E. Thayer a.nd Outrath 



Bangs ............. 



An Undescribed Species of Drepanidid.e on Nihoa, Hawaiian Group. By 



William Alanson Bryan .......... 



A Nesting OF the Rose-breasted Grosbeak. By Francis H.Allen . 



Five Years Personal Notes and Observations on the Birds of Hatley 



Stanstead County, Quebec — 1911-1915. By H. Mousley 

 A New Subspecies of HubsoNiAN Chickadee from the Labrador Peninsula 

 By Charles W. Townsend, M.D. 



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General Notes. — An Accomplishment of the Red-tlu-oated Loon, 75; The Long-tailed 

 Jaeger in Indiana, 75; Notes on Hybrid Ducks from I^oug Point, Ontario, 75; Early 

 European Widgeon on Long Island, 75: A Record of the Golden Plover {Charadrius 

 dominicus dominicus in the State of Washington, 70; Barn Owl in Massachusetts 

 77; Display of the Purple Finch, 77; Late Nesting of the Montana Junco, 77 

 Pliiladelphia Vireo (Vireosyha Philadelphia) in Massachusetts in Autumn, 78 

 Additional Autumn Records for the Tennessee Warbler ( Vermivora peregrina) in 

 Massachusetts, 78; Orange-crowned Warbler {Vermii'ora celata celala) in North 

 Carolina, 78; Blue-gray Gnatcatclier at Groton, Mass., 78; Notation of Bird Songs 

 and Notes, 78; The Type Locality of Brachyramphus craverii, 80; Eye Shine in Birds, 

 81; Weight and Contents of Birds' Eggs, 81. 



Recent Literature. — Watson and Lashley on Homing and Related Activities of Birds, 

 88; Thortaurn's 'British Birds,' 84: Grinnell's 'Distributional List of the Birds of 

 CaUfornia,' 86; Wood on the Eyelids of Birds, 87; Cooke on the Distribution and 

 Migration of North American Gulls, 87; Gaige's 'The Birds of Dickinson County, 

 Michigan, 88; Mearns on New African Birds, 89; Beal on the Food Habits of 

 Thrushes, 89; Miller on Three New Genera of Birds, 89; Chapiu on New Bu'ds from 

 the Belgian Congo, 90; Riley on New Birds from China and Japan, 90; Recent 

 Ornithological Papers l)y Dabbene, 90; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia, 91; 

 Shufeldt's Recent Papers on Avian Osteology and Fossil Birds, 92; Richmond on 

 Necessary Changes in Generic Names, 92; Gordon's 'Hill Birds of Scotland,' 93; 

 Job's 'The Propagation of Wild Birds,' 94; The Ornithological Journals, 95; Orni- 

 thological Articles in Other Journals, 100; Publications Received, 100. 



Correspondence. — Methods of Recording Bird Song, 103; On the Position of the 

 Aramidm in the System, 108. 



Notes and News. — Proper Diagnosis of New Species, 111; American Museum's Congo 

 Expedition, 112; Natural History Survey of Yosemite, 113; Cherrie's Expedition to 

 Brazil, 114; Rhoads' Guatemala Collection, 114; The A. O. U. Badge, 114; Correc- 

 tion, 114; Death of Henry E. Dresser, 114. 



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